burning_sticks
3 years ago

I live about 25 miles from Ontario CA...don't think there are many snowbirds from there flocking to AZ...mebbe some redbirds...


Wife and I rescued a small light blue parakeet/budgerigar last year when we saw her floating at the edge of our pool...we took a photo and made a "found" flyer...knocked on doors and left flyers on porches and taped to mailboxes in a four block radius from our home...nobody claimed it...I was gonna release it, but was over-ruled by my wife...she bought a nice cage on a wheeled cart and all kinds of accessories and feed...not sure how old Bluey is, but these parakeets can live up to 15 years.

Didja know that birds can be trained? Bluey will come over to me when I whistle and click my tongue at her by the side of the cage and she will will occasionally "kiss" (peck lightly) my cheek when I press it next to the cage near her. Sometimes she'll grab onto the cage near me and let me massage her feet/claws with my fingertips and stroke her tail feathers. Bluey is my new girlfriend...

delta1 wrote:


Hold the side of your head next to the cage and Bluey will help remove the ear hair.
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Gene363
3 years ago
An EV version of the old International Harvester Scout will be made in South Carolina... by Volkswagon. 🤦

Projected to cost about $40,000.

Volkswagen announced back in May they were reviving the Scout nameplate — from the International Harvester Scout — for a new American electric vehicle brand. Scout Motors will start with two vehicles, a pickup truck and a rugged SUV...

Volkswagen’s truck subsidiary Traton merged with Navistar. Navistar was the corporate descendent of International Harvester, the company that built and still owned the trademark for the Scout.



https://www.gearpatrol.com/cars/g41530884/scout-motors-2026/ 
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tonygraz
3 years ago
5 male cardinals in the bushes near the deck this afternoon. Cold and windy today,
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MACS
3 years ago
I think this qualifies as knowledge recently acquired...

If men are from Mars... and women are from Venus...

...

...

The rest of the genders come straight out of Uranus.
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MACS
3 years ago
More hits than 75% of the rock and roll hall of fame inductees... and never even been nominated.

Foreigner.
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RiverRatRuss
3 years ago

More hits than 75% of the rock and roll hall of fame inductees... and never even been nominated.

Foreigner.

MACS wrote:



Hot Blooded!!!
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8trackdisco
3 years ago

Old Taylor Bourbon was named in honor of Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr., who was born in Columbus, Kentucky, in 1832. Taylor was a grand nephew of U.S. President Zachary Taylor.
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Gene363
3 years ago
Chuck Norris admitted to using stunt doubles in his movies.























But only for the crying parts.
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BuckyB93
3 years ago
Dolphins can recognize themselves in mirrors which means that they are self-aware, an indicator of intelligence.

The lower limbs of dolphins are vestigial legs because millions of years ago they could walk on land.

Apparently, dolphins sleep by resting one side of the brain at a time.

Dolphins’ eyes can move separately from each other.

https://www.dolphins-world.com/dolphin-facts/ 

Seven ate NINE!

(That's why is 6 is a skerd of 7)
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8trackdisco
3 years ago
Young men are six times more likely to die in an accident compared to young women.

Knew it was higher for men, but surprised there are that many more Hold My Beer moments.
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8trackdisco
3 years ago
EKGs. Electrocardiograms. The "continuously" monitors the heart.

Yes and No.

It runs continuously, but only takes a snapshot of what your heart is doing every 8 seconds. So if there is a 2 second issue with the heart, the EKG may not catch it.
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izonfire
3 years ago

EKGs. Electrocardiograms. The "continuously" monitors the heart.

Yes and No.

It runs continuously, but only takes a snapshot of what your heart is doing every 8 seconds. So if there is a 2 second issue with the heart, the EKG may not catch it.

8trackdisco wrote:


I really only have 2 second issues with my heart.
So I'm guessing an EKG is not for me...
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HockeyDad
3 years ago
I have a normally abnormal EKG. Keeps the doctors on their toes.
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8trackdisco
3 years ago

I really only have 2 second issues with my heart.
So I'm guessing an EKG is not for me...

izonfire wrote:



Correct.
A Holter Monitor would be better for you. Anywhere from 7 to 30 days to better collect data.
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8trackdisco
3 years ago
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Though British in concept,[4] the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass-produced on an unprecedented scale, the Liberty ship came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output.[5]

The class was developed to meet British orders for transports to replace ships that had been lost. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945 (an average of three ships every two days),[6] easily the largest number of ships ever produced to a single design.


Edit: One of the ships was listed as Foundered.
Any of you ship people know what that means to a civilian?
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DrafterX
3 years ago
It fell over..?? 😕
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BuckyB93
3 years ago
Liberty ships were a case study in one of my metallurgy classes (welding) in college. Early ones had a reputation of literately splitting in half during their voyage in the cold north Atlantic waters.

From wiki:

Early Liberty ships suffered hull and deck cracks, and a few were lost due to such structural defects. During World War II there were nearly 1,500 instances of significant brittle fractures. Twelve ships, including three of the 2,710 Liberty ships built, broke in half without warning, including SS John P. Gaines,[23][24] which sank on 24 November 1943 with the loss of 10 lives. Suspicion fell on the shipyards, which had often used inexperienced workers and new welding techniques to produce large numbers of ships in great haste.[citation needed]

The Ministry of War Transport borrowed the British-built Empire Duke for testing purposes.[25] Constance Tipper of Cambridge University demonstrated that the fractures did not start in the welds, but were due to the embrittlement of the steel used;[26] however, the same steel used in riveted construction did not have this problem. She discovered that at a certain temperature, the steel the ships were made from changed from being ductile to brittle. This allowed cracks to form and propagate. This temperature is known as the critical ductile-brittle transition temperature. Ships in the North Atlantic were exposed to temperatures that could fall below this critical point.[27] The predominantly welded hull construction, effectively a continuous sheet of steel, allowed small cracks to propagate unimpeded, unlike in a hull made of separate plates riveted together. One common type of crack nucleated at the square corner of a hatch which coincided with a welded seam, both the corner and the weld acting as stress concentrators. Furthermore, the ships were frequently grossly overloaded, increasing stress, and some of the problems occurred during or after severe storms that would further have increased stress. Minor revisions to the hatches and various reinforcements were applied to the Liberty ships to arrest the cracking problem. The successor Victory ships used the same steel, also welded rather than riveted, but spacing between frames was widened from 30 inches (760 mm) to 36 inches (910 mm), making the ships less stiff and more able to flex.[28]

Another interesting source/summary of the issues:
https://metallurgyandmaterials.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/liberty-ship-failures/
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Gene363
3 years ago
Thus, low hydrogen electrodes were invented, e.g., 7018.
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HockeyDad
3 years ago
A few still remain. There is a Liberty ship in San Francisco and Baltimore.

There are Victory-class ships in Tampa, Los Angeles, and in Richmond CA at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
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BuckyB93
3 years ago
There were a handful of lessons learned. Hydrogen embitterment for weldments, using cleaner steel with low phosphorus and such. Elimination of sharp corners in bulk heads which are a source of of stress concentrators (square corners) - something the airline industry (re)learned after a few crashes in the early 50's.
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