0255am 21 December 2023 Chile – The sea is blue the sky is blue, why is the volcano blue? I’d have three pictures? Extinct Volcano (no, you don’t have old mountains, sorry), Active Volcano, Erupting Volcano? And any mountain here with local earthquakes counts as Active. Subsurface seismic activity, would that count as the area being seismically active? Yes? Correct. It’s too close to the subduction zone for any other decision making profile. Mnt Xct Atv Vno Why is it Xct? Because that’s where the climber bought it, and that’s where the other climber bought it and they’re awful high and awful steep. Bought what? Oh, the map, he wasn’t going up there himself, altitude sickness etc. ML It means Magnitude Logarithmic? Why, because it is possible to calculate an M for the surface, though it’s normally called Intensity. Vertical displacement wrt time, think sound waves, music, frequency and amplitude and duration. Loud sharps make you jump. (Whistles.) Tubas make you shake your hips. Loud cannons and the world around you collapses. Actually it is that simple and you might look at the instruments in the festival of the Dead photos in Mexico and their shiny papyri mache heads. Reeds, they might have had papyrus too, perhaps? Codex? One swamp is very like another, the evolution of waterways goes way back. Grasses, reeds, those ones with the fluffy brown heads etc. Typha Reeds (Cattails – Bulrush) there was a little story about a basket and stuff, apparently they made nice boats too. And you could use them for bricks and stuff? They’re really soft compared to those nasty flax flags etc, though not as hard wearing. You need to stuff them in a sack or something, like a quilt? Rice, sorghum, millet, quite similar.
0405am 21 December 2023 Peru
0445am 21 December 2023 Volcanic air pollution and human health: recent advances and future directions Published:
0630am 21 December 2023 I’d suggest calling it a requestor? And the library page needs a little work? Nice format, if you know what you’re looking for?
Country? Date search by year? Who give a fiddlers about the satellite type, that’s just you advertising, and the front page? Last twenty products by list rather than mapping? it’s about easily accessing the information by phone if you’re the person on the ground? Why? Because I have a sat phone and a laptop computer, with a modem, not a mobile phone, they’re not working. Landlines are useful. Particularly the old copper wire ones.
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0030am 22 December 2023 Iceland – Happy Solstice. 30 days til it starts to warm up. Can ya have it working by then? Excellent to see the https://www.livefromiceland.is/ on the page. And the “instructions2? Mistranslation? The science behind “our” earthquake public warning system? And seriously can you get a few secondary school kids to help the Volcano people? It’s been erupting since the 18th? it’s the 22nd now? I’ve changed my alert status on your volcano and it’s name three times since the 18th.
1515pm 23 December 2023 Ireland Irish Independent Appeal lodged against Wicklow mountain bike plans over traffic Story by Myles Buchanan • 7h While I would say, the road is too small. I would also point to the fact that this facility is a technical track. In New Zealand a descent mountain biking track isn’t considered worth it’s salt unless it’s over 100km, 120km being the best distance. A friend I went hiking with on the Lares Trail near Machu Picchu, actually she was a little ill and she asked for a few ponies for us, if you’re going you might being a set of your own stirrups, the locals have very small feet and only my toes could fit in the stirrups, so I sat and held on with my knees as taught in the Cadet School, equitation training for a few days. The mountain biking routes available are quite short here. Consideration should be made to 1. The beach here is quite rough, it would make an idea mountain biking route in Summer, if rough rock was placed from Wicklow to Bray, adding to the current flood defences. While most would be looking at the large Japanese concrete caltrop designs, I would remind people that they are for surviving earthquakes and 30 meter waves, a very unlikely event in the Irish Sea. While designs for catching the sand bars passing South to North in the current were available in the 1890s from the British Navy, used for making nice beaches with sandy shores were originally from timber, recycled plastic has a similar floating characteristic, the tops of the wind breaks lifting higher than the lower parts keeping the wind breaks vertical in the winter high tides. The mass of metal in the designs could now be replaced by concrete in the plastic containers. Oh, and someone looked up Japanese concrete structures. I wonder who gave them that idea? Oh and four bicycle tracks from the top of the mountain to the ocean between Wicklow and Bray, please? With medical rescue in 4×4 vehicles, please, stretchers, backboards. My friend keeps going over the handlebars, though her partner likes her being the strong fit one. Chicks dig scars and all that. It’s the motion of the ocean and all that? Oh, and the lime washed away from the concrete will hopefully add to the seawater Ca concentration for restoring the Dublin Oyster beds. Why because you took all the limestone sands from the rivers long ago and the little fishes like the Calcium for building nice bones and stuff. Why because sill men and women like me 5,000 years ago put the bloody limestone sands there. The unusual rock erratics were put there deliberately, oh, glaciers… No one would have known that way back then. Eggshells. Copper, Zinc, Tin, Bronze, Brass, etc.
1810pm 23 December 2023 Iceland And this is why I say Snæfellsnes, the weather and the waves are reflected in the erosion patterns in the coastline. So can you check the frequency of these Winter solstice contraction quakes and see if the area is suitable for long term residence. Oh, and you might check artificially random architectural features for reducing local windspeeds. Creating turbulence isn’t normally recommended due to their tendency to create Tornadoes, however the lower mass of the water in the humidity here (because the air is cold) reduces the mass and the centre of inertia of the air masses changes much more frequently and thus reduces the tendency towards a funnel as a temporarily stable weather feature. If you want to ask a question? How you know that? Have a look in sea water, there’s a much different tendancy towards making funnels, in the river they happen quite frequently. And speaking of frequency, picture the Tornado as a half or quarter tone in a guitar string. The string is one line vibrating in two dimensions, the tornado is theoretically air vibrating in five dimensions, the fifth being the gravity of the Earth making the math spherical. The building, the rock, the tree, on the surface of the earth, they are the plectrums plucking the string. Now, you can send the next Phd by post, thanks. What? In four pieces? Why? Well, large packages they don’t fit through the letterbox. You’re correcting Doctors? Well, some of them wear slippers because they never learned to tie shoelaces. Why? Because tying shoe laces is takes too much time. I spend the time looking at my shoelaces, doing my thinking, it’s a nice slow start to the day. What comes first, what comes second, visualising the event before the action makes it’s likely hood of success higher.
2315pm 23 December 2023 Iceland Volcanic eruption, vent effusion ceased. Ground uplift in the area has continued, I’d describe it as healed scar tissue over a suppurating wound? Question there’s a nice map of the danger areas? How hard would it be to fill these with a few kilos of sand and some foam filler and drop them by helicopter along the lines of the danger areas? Routes to the lava zone etc. Safety guidance? Speed of helicopter drop ball every how many minutes etc. If you want someone can walk the route and put them in gps positions, with a reflective surface, ask the Finns what they’re using on their new reflective jackets, laser from the helicopter or from a nice height nearby, the hills to the North East and you can get the data hourly from a laser survey of the area? With jackets/reflective armbands on the tourists you can count their numbers and locations too? Depth of penetration of cloud by laser? Dispersion depends on moisture density and reflectiveness, low Icelandic clouds are relatively thin mists, the air is cold, though it’s a question of what to do on snow days? It’s warm over the volcano, it don’t snow dere? Oh, and if the plastic ball is melted, it’s a nice gentle reminder that the place is a little warm occasionally? There are bigger balls? Volume, you have to fit them in the helicopter. How does NASA do it? Cube sats? Square ones? Round one roll naturally? The Navy used barrel shaped for dropping mines? Can you see if there’s a large can dispenser? The ones the Americans use for restaurants for storage in tight spaces? Drop the cans in the top and they fall to the bottom, with a little bend to slow the descent and a stopping place where you pick the can out at the bottom? And if you have a wall? A few of the nice standard international metal boule balls? They should reflect the laser nicely, however you might stick them in a little light reflective bag made of the Finnish stuff? I bought a few sets at one of the one euro shops last year, ten or twenty euros for three? They give a lovely reflection in radar too? Accuracy depends on the receiver, if the receiver is on the little helicopter when the satellite goes bing, then you get much more accurate readings. The USA uses AWACS, the shippy ones are quite good too. Casa has a beauty. Most passenger aircraft have them for weather, rain, storms Clear Air Turbulence etc. Why, because Volcano people dey not know dat.
2100pm 24 December 2023 Ireland – Happy Christmas - There’s a lot to be said for the quiet of Christmas.
2125pm 24 December 2023 USA Hawaii That’s not normally seen? Well, it’s quite useful if it rains unexpectedly? Coming Soon? Santa? Yes, he is. Well, it’s like the story of the crow and the jar of water, it too low for him to drink. He put lots of little stones in jar until water high enough for him to drink. Unfortunately big rocks falling into a large magma chamber also, sometimes, has this effect. Of course when the rains come, you take out all the little stones, so there’s more space for the water. In a mechanical system it’s most frequently called a ??? Two stroke engine. Steam power? Remember that Watt guy and his up down mechanism for pumping water from the mines? Well, if you boil the sea water you get salt, so you need another mechanical arm to push the salt out of the boiling chamber occasionally? Actually it was any water, and there were loads of minerals in the mine water, and oh, two mechanical arms, that’s quite cool. And can we recycle the steam? Make salt. Because Mr Gandhi was a smart man. Became President of the Indian National Congress in some small country, unfortunately it became smaller after independence. There’s a billion people there. The land area is … Finite, as I said a small country. Shot by a man who thought he a too peaceful, very sad.
0820am 25 December 2023 Ireland Dawn outside air temperature 9 degrees Centigrade. I’ve put down my tulips already. No winter this year in Cork? Certainly no sign of snow. Iceland – database, please? Previous road closures due to avalanche, last fifty years would be normal, however due to global warning lets say the last 23 years, from 01 Jan 2000? Number of data points? Probable maximum fifty per year? GPS, duration of road closure, 50×25= 1,250 data points, a weeks work for a secondary school student, three for testing the data, how? three students put the data in, test one against two against three, if all are correct, database correct. two correct, check again, one correct, check the handwriting of the data origin and recheck original incident. I presume there was some form of a form for requesting the snow plough? A civil service petrol bill? etc. With data mapping on the roads systems for next year, please? My present to Iceland for Christmas. Colman 300 words for snow and ice, google translate doesn’t have those words.
0840am 25 December 2023 Iceland Oh, it’s no longer effusive, however that mass of lava it takes a little time to cool down, air is normally considered an insulator, particularly dry air, moist air has a slightly lower U value and the air here is winter air, polar dry air, so it’s going to take a little time to cool down. Your little is a little different to ours, how long approximately? Oh, possibly three or four months for the surface to become solid, the layer is quite deep and quite fluid still and it’s going to start sliding as it contracts and gravity will give it a little more energy, potential energy to kinetic energy to friction to heat etc. Thermodynamics, Fluid mechanics and the third year modules didn’t even mention gravity effecting fluids, presuming it was covered in first year statics and dynamics. Disconnected thinking.
1335pm 25 December 2023 USA Hawaii Magnitude-4.1 Earthquake Shakes Hawaiʻi Island by Big Island Video News on Dec 23, 2023 at 4:47 pm
From the USGS HVO:
The earthquake is of uncertain origin, but most likely due to bending of the lithosphere beneath Kīlauea volcano. The location just to the northeast of Mauna iki is too far north to be related to Pahala earthquakes and its depth is well below the magma plumbing system within Kīlauea in this region. These earthquakes are not related to the recent activity south and west of Kīlauea and are not expected to lead to any significant changes.
1555pm 25 December 2023 The radar idea for Iceland, a few pointers for the Volcano people. It’s a question of the reflectivity of the material, the power of the transmitter, try a 1000w microwave oven. Accuracy is 10cm. the receiver is the problem, it’s a question of triangulation of the received data. one pulse is really low power, however one pulse is returned once and is easiest to triangulate. The way to ensure your getting the right pulse is one large item returning the pulse, an aircraft is best. After that it’s a question of figuring out which returns are from which items. When you have fixed items which you want the accurate return from, then you can do the calculations first and look for the expected returns. Boules balls are quite nice reflectors though much larger than the standard ship reflectors, if it’s an empty ocean, then picking out the reflector is quite easy which is why the ship radars are so reasonably priced. As is a few grand for a programmer to make a nice program for the Volcanologist. Why? Because the computer time for the interferometry is quite expensive to do every day. And you could use this method every hour from a couple of high points. Rock is quite soft compared to metal and gives awful returns and the accuracy is only as good as the resolution of the satellites distance accross the pair of receivers which is normally horizontal and with three points you can get more accurate 3D readings. Up, Down, Left, Right etc. The math is the same as for Michelson’s experiment for calculating the speed of light.
1010am 26 December 2023 Iceland How would you cool the surface of the lava flow quicker? Well, theoretically it would be the same as my learning speed, distractions causing turbulent flow. What? Slowing your learning? No, actually, the increased turbulence over the lava heats the wind and makes it flow faster. You induce a turbulent flow by placing objects designed to create turbulence. Like 60 cm high plastic balls? an improvement might be with spikes, no actually, with an unusual inclusion like a metal boule ball, inducing a rocking motion in higher winds? And the bottom melts? Well, a flat bottom does tend to slow the ball moving off? That and it’s tendency to fall to the lowest point, into a crevice etc. It’s a particular feature of lava flows? They’re not exactly smooth as a football field in a bloody University where you’d be testing the things? Yes, I did say this before. Why that tall? The heat creates a boundary layer over the lava, it’s similar to a fog layer, low windspeeds, moisture, differing densities etc. Heavier chemicals tend to sit on the ground, CO2, SO2 etc. And some, they rise and cool, they condense and drop as liquids, it’s called rainfall on Earth. There were other reasons for the choices. In Ireland, an unusual weather phenomena caused a church to be build upwind to break the phenomena. The church in Cloyne, St Colman’s etc. That lad is too smart for mining, put him in front of a few books please? The Army went, shite, twenty years in a nice quiet place, he might read some more, now, since Predator the movie is in vogue, remember, I taught myself computer programming at 12 from the Vic 20 QBasic manual? There’s a lot to be said for sending out the computer with nothing on it and a few examples of what is possible rather than how to do this? and filled with mind numbing shoot some balls and “exercise” your mind, with a nice sound tone to ring your little bell, you did so well, try a higher level. 60cm balls lines of them, beside the lava flows, please? Oh, you want a Phd proof? The largest fault in thermodynamic transfer of energy in heat exchange systems is the smoothness of the boundaries. The maximum surface area with nice pipes was nicely designed, however the little imperfections on the surface induces local turbulent flow and increases heat transfer. Is that under 100 words? Someone might shorten it, if they had time? You can make an app to calculate the best ball size and material and distance from the lava surface to maximise the turbulent flow if you want, I was just giving a quick solution. On smooth hillsides with warm winds over the cold surface, the turbulent flow slows the wind, its an effect of wind turbines, they turn the wind energy into electricity. Though one of their inefficiencies is making noise as a side effect. You might see if a few automatic noise makers near the avalanche sites might induce avalanches at lower snow depths? Lots of smaller avalanches are easier to clear than one big one? Tubas, walls of Jericho etc. Check frequencies of the big Alpine horns, high volume low frequency sonic noise is comparable to seismic activity, transfer of energy from rock to snow/ice, is dissipated by the lack of smoothness of the rock surface. Transfer of energy to the smooth ice layer on top by sound is more efficient, avalanches happen normally after a smooth ice layer has formed over the top of the snow through melting, sometimes because of a warm or fast wind over the snow. The cow farted, the avalance started, how do we make a sound like that? Any ideas? Fog horns. Low frequency noise travels farther. ”In general, low frequency waves travel further than high frequency waves because there is less energy transferred to the medium. Hence the use of low frequencies for fog horns. Although damped waves have decreasing amplitudes, their wavelength and period are unaffected.” Physics lab it depends on the medium and particularly on the local boundaries. Tuning forks etc. You know those Irish round towers? Nice and tall aren’t they? Surface materials? etc. Glendalough, wind through the valley, check for induced windspeeds and funnel activity in and over the valley without the tower? USA? Tampa Federal building, the round tower with rough stone surface is marvellous. I was quite impressed. Australia? You know that large silly looking bridge? Wind up the river was quite reduced wasn’t it? The Chinese and Japanese used to use lines of flags and lanterns. Two or three lines and it’s surprising how calm the winds in the area of the festival. It works on off shore wave and current breaking too. I think we have a few Irish wind farms planned on that basis, the currents increasing in future due to higher water temperatures. Surprise. Oh, by the way, induced turbulence over Titanic, you might study the area over and around Lusitania for similar effects? It’s off Cork harbour? There are similar effect over other wreaks, we used to go fishing over a few of the old ones off Ballycotton. Ask where the best fishing places are you might find a few old shipwrecks, it’s how a few of the Greek and Roman wreaks were found. The turbulence rises minerals off the ocean floor giving fertiliser to the little planty things. Finland??? You know what I’m talking about???
1120am 26 December 2023 Iceland Silly question? You know all those old car engines? And the really large aircraft engines piston type? Steam is quite clean, it’s boiled water? It doesn’t have to be particularly efficient, if you simply use loads of them? Try it with a bicycle generator? the ones for making electricity for the bicycle light? 2 stroke engine? Lawnmower? Arduino to control the valves, the output voltage would be variable, so you’d need to work on what to do with the electricity? Hydrogen? water and chemical splitting is much easier in warm water solutions? It’s really hard to split normal salt at normal water temperatures? Why? Well, otherwise it wouldn’t be a bloody secondary school chemistry experiment. The water needs, no, you need a pressurised container, the steam forms and expands at lower than 100 degrees, hot air balloons etc. Actually they do push the heated air down too, it adds to their buoyancy, cool air comes in from the? Air rising with the hot air from around the burner.
1140am 26 December 2023 NASA, you didn’t learn this in Kirbal, I never played the game, a friend explained the principals. The habitat is heated by laser from Earth, the face of the Moon being conveniently faced towards our nice planet. Water heated in a pressurised container generates some electricity for batteries through expansion heating and thermogeneration, the cooled steam, is then used to heat habitat air. An orbital station closer might be more efficient in terms of energy lost however, a stable orbit over the habitat is quite difficult. Disadvantages? Radiated heat from Earth causes the Moon to change it’s orbital momentum, it’s why the bloody thing is moving away from Earth at a steady rate already and having a method of pushing it back towards Earth might be nice? Wouldn’t want to lose the bloody thing. There was a tv show (1975) about that, Space 1999, I think it was called. Oh, and you can use the laser for carrying the news too. I know, Earth’s atmosphere is a dispersive effect, you have a series of geosynchronous satellites, six going round earth and you always have four you can point at the Moon, the geostationary orbit being quite a bit larger than Earths diameter, however you have to be careful not to twang anything in Medium orbit, while the satellites are close to the tangential. Advantage? Well, powerful enough and you might use them to change a closing meteoroids momentum saving the Earth from a big crater? It might be handy over the next few centuries? Oh, and the Solar panels cool Earth just a little bit, a little shade in the desert is nice occasionally to protect you from the harsh Sun? If I had an APC in a warm place like that, I’d rig a little tent over it? Space blankets etc? Why? Solar habitat cooling? Though the plastic melts in the sunshine on the Moon. The leather gloves were really shiny weren’t they. It depends on what you preserve it with? the ones for softness you treat with? It spontaneously combusts in UV which is annoying. Though in a timber matrix it’s quite good, we use it for hurleys. Wikipedia – Silicone greases generally have an operating temperature range of approximately −40 to 200 °C (−40 to 392 °F) with some high-temperature versions extending this range slightly. Talcum powder is quite useful too and it’s reasonably temperature stable. You might look at your Space Shuttle O ring problem again? cooling effects due to gases escaping etc. ”It is used for heat-transfer abilities, rather than friction reduction.” Sorry? which memo?
1330pm 26 December 2023 NASA and a few others, you see there’s a strange thing about organic oils and greases, a few bacteria like the stuff, however at cold temperatures they aren’t very active. Similarly, if you mix in one or two little chemicals that they don’t like bacterial activity is also reduced. You know dem reindeer, dey be walking around in dem temperatures? ”Summary As a summary, the hydrophobically processed reindeer pelt is a superior arctic hiking mattress to plastic mattresses with excellent compressibility, thermal insulation, sweat ventilation and water-repellency properties. Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the referees. Professor, Dr.
G.E. Attenburrow and Dr. Paul Kronick, for their valuable criticism and positive recommendations. Thanks are also due to Mr. Pekka Tenkilii, M.A. , who has revised the
English in this report.” Arctic Hiking Mattress from Processed Reindeer Pelt Download PDF E. Mantysalo, M. Marjoniemi & M. Nieminen Tampere University of Technology, Fiber, Textile and Clothing Science, Fur and Leather Division, P.O. Box 589,
FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland, e-mail: esa@ee.tut.fi
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, Reindeer Research Station, FIN-99910 Kaamanen, Finland - I presume one of the lazy bollixes was bored listening to all that plasiic waste is bad for the environment stuff and wanted to prove that the sleeping bag they were actually using was quite comfy, and could headquarters stop sending out those shite ones for testing. Oh and how do you make a shelter near a volcano? There’s no snow for an igloo? It’s actually quite like making an igloo, you use a saw. The stone is nice an bubbly. It’s a bit porous though so you might use a water proof paint, I recommend the wood and metal paint, white, I get from the local hardware store, though it’s fifty euros a tin, you need about four tins for a shed. It’s a little smelly for a day or two, though that doesn’t particularly matter if it’s on the outside of the hut. The smooth surface reduces turbulence and increases U value. You can smooth the surface and reduce the amount of paint needed by plastering it first. the local ground temperatures and low humidity should dry the plaster quite quickly. If there’s water, the dry stuff, if no water the ready mixed, and if you add some rocks into the remainder of the mix, you can make nice seats with the tubs, and then you can use the tubs for storing stuff off the ground, the paint tins have nice handles. Though the builders plaster, in the large tubs, they expect the builder to have a van. The smaller tubs are easier for backpacks. Oh and the lava rock seats, a little hammer and chistle, and they’re quite nicely insulated, the Italians used the stuff for quite a lot of the old buildings. Where the plaster come from? Well, remember that big Giza Pyramid? woops? Cheap materials are whipped up so quickly. Oh and if you want a nice smooth roof for watching from, you use a lawnmower, you drop the blades and the lumpy bits are chipped off, quite nicely, it’s the advantage of soft rock. Keeping the roof up? Igloo, build up the sides, fill with … same as building a bridge, we used to make basement roofs like that. Look there’s even some nice pictures. Why don’t we do that? Well, in the South of Ireland the mudstone and red sandstone is quite annoying, it cracks in the frost. However, climate change is changing the weather conditions rather rapidly? Mica – Pieso electric effect happens because of expansion and contraction, heating and cooling the stuff expands and contracts and the little bricks they break quite quickly. Same happens in rocks containing the stuff unless time has made spaces for the stuff in the rock and if it’s cooled in place from lava, the stuff is in the nice spaces already. Granite etc. Good building material, however it’s a poor sand for concrete or plaster, have a look for the old sands around the old monuments? It wasn’t there for scraping your boots, it simply fell out of the building cracks, you can see some still on the flat protected surfaces of the interior, though some insects use the stuff for their larvae, caddis flies etc, so it gets moved over the centuries and some animals eat the stuff too for roughage, birds, mice etc. owl poo, the tiny sand bits comes from what they eat. No teeth for chewing, you need few little rocks and some rocks, they’re good for calcium too, particularly plaster and whitewash. Oh and you know stonehenge is slightly radioactive, if you have the right plaster on top it really rocks. ”UV-grade fused silica is a material that is transparent for wavelengths that are down to 200 nm. Cheaper standard-grade fused silica is transparent for wavelengths that are below 260nm. Artificial diamond is transparent down to 230 nm. Borate crystals like BBO and LBO also have relatively good UV transparency” It’s why the head of a pint of Murphys should glow. Beer Vit B. And then they took the stuff out and sold it as brewers yeast. ”Any beer contains B Vitamins?” They’re not quite all the same. Well, certain Vitamins, after consuming them, you have a tendency to want to expend energy? It’s why some animals are a little frisky in Springtime among other reasons. New growth etc. Where was the yeast culture? Oh scrape some off the rocks, “it looks like it’s good stuff”. It’s how you think, that’s how you speak. Quinine – willow bark? Look at that? Isn’t that cool, where’d you get your stick?
- Vitamins
Vitamin A and the B vitamins thiamine, niacin, and riboflavin are strongly fluorescent. Try crushing a vitamin B-12 tablet and dissolving it in vinegar. The solution will glow bright yellow under under a black light.
1515pm 26 December 2023 Italy, you see my favourite children’s story was the Emperors new clothes. I keep asking silly questions.
1525pm 26 December 2023 Spain you might have a look at this one? Why? Because the pain in my heads annoying and I’m going to put my feet up for a while. The miners just come out of the mine, not working today. We live, not good if the mine shakes.
1800pm 26 December 2023 Indonesia – What’s missing in Indonesian coverage of their volcanoes? Well, when they were called Dragons everyone was interested, Gunung, the thing the fire comes out of. You might ask if the vent on the bottom is active, the locals might think that’s a normal event? Weather Indonesia – No rain and woah, it’s hot again? December weather - Days are usually hot with balmy evenings, so visitors should pack light and cool clothing. The average daily maximum is 31 C and the average daily minimum is 25 C. What do they need? Well, I’d say a World Wrestling Federation type commentary? It’s Semaru? it’s hot today, it’s going to be hot tomorrow and woah, maybe we should be looking at … next week? How long can a commentary go on? Well, Jimmy Magee, he did forty years of commentary. By the way, what’s the Irish Association and can you get this page fixed please? Pronto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_sports_commentators and what are these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_sports_broadcasters and both lists are rather scant on females? Oh, they don’t have those sorts of memory skills? Well, occasionally there’s a reason for that. And, well it’s not seen as a very lucrative career, most of the sports people have careers first… British tv… See how Jimmy started? Pinnacle of his career? Belfast Telegraph no less. ‘Memory Man’ Jimmy Magee, veteran of 11 Olympics and 12 World Cups, dies aged 82
1920pm 26 December 2023 Indonesia You might have a little look at this one too?
2200pm 26 December 2023 USA Hawaii, now there’s a friend of mine he used to say: mind me pint, it might be a while. Peek a boo?
1825pm 27 December 2023 Iceland It’s noisier today than yesterday, you might check the weather in Iceland for two days time? Why? Because my headache is back and today it only took walking around on the hard floor for thirty minutes.
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0210am 30 December 2023 Iceland Two questions? One, that vent bottom right with the question marks supposed to be steaming? Two, what’s the area of flames under the question marks in the middle? Nice lighthouses. The timing of the lighthouses can be used to determine their location according to maps of the local waters, pairs can be used with parallax to ensure you’re staying on the correct course. In the book Swallows and Amazons the code was two greens in front one red behind. This allowed passage through the rocks to the secret cove. It’s a nice way to lay a route to and from a casualty, using a compass bearing? since using green and red lights on a sea shore is not advised, I would suggest blue, yellow and orange? Nice hillside view. Colman
0605am 01 January 2024 Happy New Year. Iceland, I did say check the weather for two days time, didn’t I? Now can you go out in that weather and see what broke, because an M 4.4 is not a contraction earthquake? What would it look like? Well, it’s a rock sheet which caught the energy from the big Earthquake down the fault line a few hundred kilometres a few days ago, so… can I have that doughnut please? I tap the top of the icing with the flat of the knife, theoretically, it’s striking it with the pointy edge which should do most damage in terms of penetration, however it doesn’t effect the rest of the doughnut dramatically. When you hit it with the flat of the knife, the entire icing slides, crack. So that was a crack, and just along the fault line, so there will probably have been some sort of twisting motion and the results of that twist, the other side of the icing patch, which moves a little more slowly, will be in six to twelve hours to the north or south along the fault line, either near Surtsey island, though that’s quiet at present or up at the northern fault line beside the islands just off the Icelandic coast, up there. Oh and Svalbard, that one, the energy from that will be at Iceland in about three to four days, the ground is cold, the conduction is better, the rock is harder, contracted etc. I was a small bit long on my estimate on the weather, I’ve recalibrated now for winter. The speed of the seismic energy through the rock, it’s in kilometres per hour, you can check it’s how the earthquake people find the epicentres etc. Though the different frequencies have different speeds thtough different rocks and you might check at different temperatures and if people took saving lives seriously as Mr Nobel intended, there’d be a Nobel prize for teaching the temperature business. We had a silly man did science work for free here in Cork before, Boyle was his name, lived up the road here. P1V1=P2V2 I think the full version is VP/TnR = constant. Some people learned it as TAnOrA. Mandarin drink. Tangerines actually. There a difference? Depends on if the teacher in the exam hall has the stuff on their desk?
0725am 01 January 2024 Iceland??? The local Met office only says an M 3.5? What’s up with where ever the USGS office is or are all the good ones at the Christmas party? It’s New Years, that’d have been some Christmas party? You serious? You’re not still at your Christmas party? Some people they just never got the spirit of Solstice, Christmas New Year, Little Christmas, it’s the eighth of January some people go back to work isn’t it, most academics anyway I think? Why? Army goinks, you either get one off or the other off and some people, they get both off. It’s not like slippers, you don’t have to have them both on.
0040am 02 January 2024 Japan Ireland This made the 6 o’clock news today. No decent map, reporting off AP or Reuters or whichever and the Japanese official comment and totally hysterical reporting. Havoc and blah blah blah. Four dead, which is an amazingly low death toll, were these slips trips and falls or shock victims, heart attacks etc, can Defibrillators be better placed in more locations (i.e. in shops. Wwhy because some numpties read that and see, eight of them? and some on your head? Oh, they are dat stupid.) Oh and this “https://www.aedexpert.ie/defisign-life-defibrillator-fully-automatic.html?“ At 1,000 euros, someone is seriously kidding themselves? Buy three times more of the old 300 euro ones. It’s a numbers game, kid and they have more. Statistically three times more of 80% efficiency saves more than one of the best. Now if you want perfect? You draw a big map and magic every one of them a perfect new one and send the old ones to Africa, Rwanda and ask why they don’t have any effect on the death rate there? Why? Because granddad and grandmam are still active, chubby and working because most of their kids died of AIDS. The hourglass shaped population was a prediction just twenty years ago when I was in Congo. How’s the AIDS drug distribution network going? Oh we show the shiny new faces on tv, because they’re such huge influencers? Because they influence what mammy and daddy are buying them for Christmas. Who rules the world? The people with time and money to eat cake and discuss what they’ve seen in the museum coffeeshop. British Museum crowd is different to the Australian geology museum Canberra. The Australians have their kids with them, the museums practically empty it’s so big. If you can still see and hear them at twenty yards then losing the little tykes is quite difficult.
0205am 02 January 2024 Iceland These M 3.5s at the glacier, the star shaped ones, they’re happening quite frequently now? A little more frequently than last year? Yes, that is a question.
0210am 02 January 2024 Japan and yes, an M 5.4 Earthquake would put you quite off your coffee morning. Time NOW 11:14 Tuesday, 2 January 2024 (GMT+9)Time in Tokyo, Japan
1215pm 02 January 2024 USA Hawaii The page is still a little cluttered? So is yours Colman? Mine doesn’t say “official website of the USA” on it? Oh you can figure it out. Yes except as seen from yesterdays rather large earthquake in Japan, when you need the information, it’s nice if the webpage works first time? Most people don’t bother looking up this stuff unless it’s an emergency and then it’s… Well, this “Mauna Loa” page, it looks rather cluttered and useless. How would you fix it? Well first I’d ask how many people are assigned to watching that volcano? To watching all the volcanoes on Hawaii? Why? Because unfortunately I know that my local shopping mall in Blackpool has more more security people watching it and while they’re a little young and thus they’re not the brightest bunch and they’re certainly not that well paid, at least they’re enthusiastic.
0030am 03 January 2024 Japan – CNN – ‘Battle against time’ to find quake survivors as Japan lifts tsunami warnings and death toll rises By Helen Regan, Sahar Akbarzai, Chie Kobayashi and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Updated 5:29 PM EST, Tue January 2, 2024 ”At least 57 people have been killed by the earthquake, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, citing officials from the Ishikawa prefecture.” ”And five people were killed at Tokyo Haneda airport on Tuesday when a Japan Airlines jet collided with a coast guard plane on its way to provide earthquake relief.”
First report (A little bit of “a false start”, I think it’s called in sports?) Reuters – Powerful quake rocks Japan, nearly 100,000 residents ordered to evacuate By Tim Kelly, Satoshi Sugiyama and Sakura Murakami January 1, 2024 6:11 PM GMT Updated a day ago ”TOKYO, Jan 1 (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake struck central Japan on Monday, killing at least one person, destroying buildings, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and prompting residents in some coastal areas to flee to higher ground. The quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 triggered waves of about 1 metre along Japan’s west coast and neighbouring South Korea.”
Colman’s comment: The ground lifted one meter into the air. The soft buildings broke like matchsticks.
New York Times – Map: Earthquake Strikes Japan By William B. Davis, Madison Dong, Judson Jones, John Keefe and Bea Malsky Updated January 2, 2024 at 1:33 p.m. E.T. he one of the beer brewing Keefes?
Euronews Japan earthquake death toll rises to 55, government says
0045am 03 January 2024 2024 Sea of Japan Earthquake Wikipedia
“On 01 January 2024, at 16:10 JST (07:10 UTC), a Mw 7.5 earthquake happened in the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
The earthquake caused a tsunami along the Sea of Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency officially named this earthquake the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
0220am 04 January 2024 Iceland - No comment.
0220am 04 December 2024 Turkey Earthquake Feb 2023 GBR_BBCNews Turkish quake trial for hotel collapse that killed school volleyball team Published 12 hours ago By Ece Goksedef BBC News “The first criminal trial over last year’s earthquake in Turkey has begun, focusing on the collapse of a hotel in which 72 people died.“ ”Four parents were the only survivors from the volleyball group. They managed to dig themselves out of the rubble, while 35 others including all the children were killed.” (Colman’s comment – 35 others from the Volleyball group.) ”If convicted, the 11 defendants face prison terms of between two years and eight months to more than 22 years.” Wikipedia Turkey Syria Earthquakes 2023 ”In Turkey. There were 50,783 deaths, 297 missing and 107,204 injured across 11 of the 17 affected provinces of Turkey. At least 15.73 million people and 4 million buildings were affected. About 345,000 apartments were destroyed.” ”In Syria. At least 8,476 people died and over 14,500 were injured in Syria. Among the dead included 2,153 children and 1,524 women. The Syrian Ministry of Health recorded over 2,248 earthquake-related deaths and 2,950 injuries in government held areas, most of which were in the governorates of Aleppo and Latakia. In rebel-held areas, at least 4,547 people died and 2,200 others were injured.” Oh and Wiki? Starting with the death toll normally get’s peoples attention? Why is there a difference Turkey “deaths” and Syria “people died”? Oh, it depends on if they were believers or not, it’s why the children and women are listed separately. Personally I prefer the word “deaths” Why? Because every death requires an inquest in some places, by a qualified person (Dia – God ths-Thesis UK Metropolitan police employed Kerrymen.). And an autopsy too might be nice, if we had the qualified people for that? Why? well, it’s how you get a higher life expectancy for the rest of the population, I think a silly question like “what’s all that lead doing in their system” was the first question? Though statistically, it was “what’s in the water wells in London that’s causing the deaths?” ( Wikipedia – Death - See also Anthropomorphism – Angmopork? Terry would not be impressed you spelt that incorrectly? ”Comics : Death first appeared in The Sandman vol. 2, #8 (August 1989), and was created by Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg. She is both an embodiment of death and a psychopomp in The Sandman Universe, and depicted as a down to earth, perky, and nurturing figure. Death is the second born of The Endless and she states “When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I’ll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.” (Colman’s comments: Why are there tables? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams. ”First appeared” “in comic book” form? The level of poor grammar here is beautiful, comic and, gives courage to the fool. Almost 60,000 people died in the immediate effects of the M 9.0 Rift Slide Turkey/Syria in February 2023. The aftermath, oh, that’s been quite educational so far and the subsequent legal and political implications, they’re only beginning. Wikipedia “On 6 February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a Mw 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The epicenter was 37 km (23 mi) west–northwest of Gaziantep. The earthquake had a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme) around the epicenter and in Antakya. It was followed by a Mw 7.7 earthquake at 13:24. This earthquake was centered 95 km (59 mi) north-northeast from the first. There was widespread damage and tens of thousands of fatalities.” Why are there so many html addresses in the complicated articles? Oh, well, it’s so the teacher can go “what does that mean” and get the pupil away from 60,000 people died needlessly. GBR_TheGuardianNews Japan earthquake: death toll rises to 62 amid warnings of landslides and aftershocks GBR BBCNews Bears versus robot wolves in ageing Japan Published 30 September 2023 Why? Because living in the countryside and on top of hills and mountains is dangerous too. All life is a balance. ”Over the past six decades, there have been more than 150 bear attacks in Hokkaido. At least four people were killed and 10 were injured in 2021 – one of the deadliest years on record.” Murphy’s Laws of Combat Operations – “Anything you do can get you killed, including doing nothing.” Most famous Psychopomp? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(Discworld) Note: ”Azrael, the Great Attractor, is one of the Eight Old High Ones. He is the ‘Death of Universes’: …” https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Great_Attractor “His position as the ‘Keeper of The Universal Clock’ could be a reference to Father Time and Cronus, (Kronos or Cronos,) who was the inspiration for both Father Time and the Grim Reaper.” Star Trek Fans – Look away - Lobsang Ludd “At the end of Thief of Time he shares a “perfect moment” with Susan Sto Helit also a human who inherited qualities from an anthropomorphic personification.” Star Trek “Insurrection” Scene 14 – “A Perfect Moment” A Perfect Moment In Time – Star Trek Insurrection 1998 Petittwo-YouTube Sorry, who are these? https://www.youtube.com/@TrekCulture/featured - 10 Star Trek Moments That Are Deeper Than You Think Sean Ferrick, nice accent, Irish, I presume? Where the #aperfectmoment metatag camefrom? WHAT? Oh, he’s like me; you don’t start with What do you want? You start with: ”Where do you want to start?” Colman’s comment: James Tiberius Kirke was named because Tiberius is a lake in Galilee and it’s now TiberIAS on all the new maps? ”The Tiberius world map or Mappa Mundi is the only surviving world map from Anglo-Saxon England. It is divided into the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, with the Mediterranean Sea in the centre.” https://shop.bl.uk/products/pod13861 De Bwitsh Library. 11th Century??? England??? Why? Because it seems to say Cork is the centre of the World? Like,, it is, however, if I was a map maker of England, I might have a different message? What does it really say? Oh, I made this. It’s an architects list. He turned up had a look, did a drawing an left. Arrived home and they said where you been? Prove it. He said you got an atlas? They said yes, he said do I? They said no. Well, you compare your atlas to my drawing and we’ll see which is better? There’s no castle there. There is now, or at least, they should be finished it in a few years. What are the two things at the bottom, oh, everyone starts with the pillocks of Hercules, so I had to as well. Hall’s pictorial weekly.
0900am 04 January 2024 Maps, why is there a starfish in the map? Oh, it’s because they didn’t have another colour, it’s actually the depth of water. I suggested black for the fishing grounds and they didn’t like that. Why? Because it’s a pain in the tits when the nets hit the bottom and getting food from the locals is annoying.
The Complete Chronicles of Conan: Centenary Edition Hardcover – 19 Jan. 2006 by Robert E. Howard (Author), Stephen Jones (Foreword) The Heroic Legends Series – Conan: Lord of the Mount (Savage Tales Short Fiction Book 1) by Stephen Graham Jones 26 Sept 2023 I bought the Complete Chronicles a few years ago. The books on carpentry look nice too. Amazon – Stephen Graham Jones It’s an Alias Smith and Jones reference. Alias Smith and Jones 1971 ‧ Western ‧ 3 seasons Ireland saw them a little later than the USA. I watched them on a Black and White tv with metal legs. The Invisible Man 1975 ‧ Sci-fi ‧ 1 season was quite good too. Wikipedia Nancy Steele Is Missing! is a 1937 American drama film directed by George Marshall and Otto Preminger and starring Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly and Peter Lorre. It was produced and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. The film’s sets were designed by the British art director Hans Peters. It has been described as a precursor to film noir. Cast Victor McLaglen as Dannie O’Neill Walter Connolly as Michael Steele Peter Lorre as Prof. Sturm June Lang as Sheila O’Neill – aka Nancy Steele Robert Kent as Jimmie Wilson Colman’s comment – Sorry, when was DC comics born? Who was the Man of Steel, and that spider fellow? Peter Lorre, I saw him in film as Mr Moto.
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1020am 04 January 2024 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1997 ‧ Drama ‧ 7 seasons - This is cool: ”The 1994 Northridge earthquake had an epicenter about 18 miles (29 km) from Glendale. The city suffered severe damage to a public parking structure and sections of the Glendale Galleria parking structures and exterior columns incurred damages.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendale,_California ”Geology – Several known earthquake faults criss-cross the Glendale area and adjacent mountains, as in much of Southern California. Among the more recognized faults are the Sierra Madre and Hollywood faults, situated in the city’s northern and southwestern portions, respectively. Additionally, the Verdugo and Raymond faults intersect through the city’s central and southeastern areas. The San Gabriel fault, meanwhile, is located northeast of the city. Roughly 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Glendale is a major portion of the San Andreas Fault known as the “Big Bend”, where quake-recurrence tracking shows major activity roughly every 140–160 years. The closest portion of the San Andreas is actually 29 miles (47 km) from Glendale. The last major quake along the southern San Andreas was recorded in 1857.
Forest Lawn Museum’s art collection consists primarily of original bronze and marble sculptures by European and American artists. The permanent collection also includes stained glass that used to be part of William Randolph Hearst’s collection. Forest Lawn purchased the stained glass works in 1954. The windows date from c. 1315 to 1575, and display impressive examples of French, German, and Austrian craftsmanship in Gothic and Renaissance styles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Lawn_Memorial_Park_(Glendale) ”The central point of the court is the mosaic rendition of John Trumbull‘s Signing of the Declaration of Independence. The mosaic measures at twenty by thirty feet. It is three times the size of the original painting in the United States Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. The mosaic consists of 700,000 pieces of Venetian glass in more than 1,500 colors. It was made in Italy expressly for Forest Lawn. There are two fifty-foot white pylons on each end of the court.” ”””The most notable critical work about Forest Lawn is The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, an English writer. Waugh was given a tour of Forest Lawn, and that is when he was inspired with the idea for the book. A 1948 New York Times review wrote that it is “satire at its most ferocious…a macabre frolic filled with… ingenious devices.” “””
1050am 04 January 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Pansy_Lamb – Lamb was one of four daughters of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, by his marriage to Lady Mary Child Villiers, a daughter of Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey. The young Pansy did not go to school and claimed to be entirely self-educated. In 1915, when she was eleven, her father was killed in action in the Great War at the Scimitar Hill, part of the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign. Thereafter, Pansy was brought up by her mother with her brothers, Edward and Frank, and her sisters, Violet, Mary and Julia. In 1922 she was a debutante. Pansy Pakenham and her siblings had few friends outside their immediate family, which Lady Mary attributed to the out-of-date clothes that they wore as children.
1110am 04 January 2024 Ireland – Cork – Midleton – Can you have a look and see if this cave is the cause of the Flooding problem in Midleton? The castle is called Ballyannan in some places? And Ahanesk has quite a few other names too. https://www.castles.nl/ballyannan-castle The first building at this site was probably a castle owned by the Hodnett family. Ask Odhran.
1340pm 04 January 2024 Ireland – Anyone interested in a nice Solar energy generating plant? It’s a bit of an Engineering nightmare from the point of view that it’s only got one road in, however the rock is quite hard, so a few crushed rock tracks should be possible?
Let’s do the quick calculation on the pudding bowl, 3.4km x 400m 1,700 panels wide x 150 panels tall, = 255,000 panels @ 400 watts = 102,000 kWatts @ 50% efficiency in Winter = 51,000 kWatts = 51MegaWatts when illuminated, oh and that’s without sunlight reflected from the ocean, it acts as rather large mirror. And the lower the angle of the Sun (wintertime), the higher the amount of reflected sunlight, (the Greeky soldaten and their shields etc.) scary bollix Colman, isn’t he. Now heating a nice house A or B rated by electricity should be 2 kWatts, so that’s 25,000 houses. Big ‘tatter from the audience. Now, heating a nice house should be 2kWattHours per day, so that’s 8 hours in the wintertime, so that’s 51,000 x 8 =408,000 kWattHrs per day. so, it’s 204,000 houses in Wintertime. And the Summertime maximum is over 18 hours, dark at 2300 light at 0500, so that’s 102,000 kWatts x 18 = 1,836,000 kWattHours per day when the houses are looking for electricity to blow cool air over the beautifully clad investors in their nice Solar heated swimming pools. Does the ESB do investment in long term projects anymore? How long term? Well, the Cox guy, he say Sun still be shining in a 100 million years or so? What’s the hill worth? Oh, there’s sheep up there, it’s worth a few bob. Bob? What’s it worth? you did the Masters on Energy Security? Do you want it, Today? Tomorrow? In the next twenty minutes? Well, let’s do the twenty minute calculation to match with Colman’s little corner of the route map calculation. Why? Well, Colman has to think about something while he’s eating his hot noodles on the side of the hill after giving gingernut biscuits to everyone to give them energy to get down off the mountain. Colman’s comment – I was doing the walks for the good of my health and all that. It’s a nice view though isn’t it? I’d have a lovely astronomy site above it looking up at the stars too? And a nice lake for pumping the water up the hill for storing the energy for use during the night time too? Though making Hydrogen is quite nice too, I think there might be a market for that soon and that waterstoff, it be all around Ireland, it’s quite handy. For growing things and getting cows milk and that sort of stuff. Though there’s a bit of salt in it, now what would you be doing with 20 tonnes of sodium? It’s a little reactive? Dropped in a place with CO2 and there might be a big pile of ? Carbon, actually. What would you do with 40 tonnes of Carbon? Graphite? Bricks? It’s an idea, ask ESA or NASA? With a bit of https://carbon-solar.com/en/ Oh, you might make Solar panels, on Mars? Wouldn’t that be cool? ”CARBON The 1st Gigafactory – The first gigafactory, which will be fully integrated, will include a silicon ingot foundry, wafer-cutting facilities, numerous clean rooms for cell production, as well as module assembly facilities and logistics warehouses on an approximately 60-hectare industrial site at the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille in Fos-sur-Mer. At stake, the creation of over 3,000 directs jobs by 2027 and at least the same amount of indirect jobs.” Colman’s Comment: Oh, there’s a bit more at stake than jobs. Why they building it there? Well, they used to do dyeing there loads of water in the lake and the nasties they used to drop over the edge into the deep water away from the fishies they eaty. I presume they’re going to have a nice solar demo place on the lake beside them giving it 100% green energy production after they’ve made their own panels to cover the water with. The shade will cool the water to temperatures where the fish might be able to reproduce in the shallows of the lake. A little rounded limestone sand might help? Why’s that for sale it’s barely been in the river. Oh, because the guy dropping it in the river just realised the stuff won’t do the job he planned with it. Actually he/she has put it through the grader, the larger stones they’re the ones for sale in dumpy bags. https://www.geoschol.com/counties/FERMANAGH_GEOLOGY.pdf http://finbarroneill.ie/products/decorative-stone/ You might ask what’s the shiny gold chemical? Fe2O3 isn’t particularly good for people? It’s the nasty stuff in rust. ”Iron(III) oxide or ferric oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Fe2O3. It is one of the three main oxides of iron, the other two being iron(II) oxide (FeO) the rarer form, and iron(II,III) oxide (Fe3O4) which naturally as magnetite.” https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ferric-Oxide-Red#section=CAS ”The effects of quartz, Fe2O3 (hematite), CaCO3, & Na feldspar, on host defenses against bacterial pulmonary infection was investigated. Mice which received intratracheal instillations of 10, 33, and 100 mug/mouse were exposed within an hour to aerosols of viable streptococcus, & pneumonia-induced mortality was measured. At 33 and 100 mug/mouse, all particles significantly increased mortality. At the lower dose, only fe2o3 caused a significant increase in mortality. Delaying the challenge did not significantly alter the response.”
The Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) is a toxicology database that focuses on the toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals. It provides information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, nanomaterials, and related areas. The information in HSDB has been assessed by a Scientific Review Panel.
Here’s a hint, it was called “Tanning” and was done with? And it killed what??? And then we used Tea and it tasted nice too, so we kept drinking it. When iron mordents are used to dye leather black the tannins in the leather form a chemical reaction with the iron mordents. As the iron mordents change form from FE1 to FE2 a deep black color is achieved. When done properly this should be a black that will last for as long as the leather exist. https://www.jarnaginco.com/david/iron%20mordents.htm#:~:text=When%20iron%20mordents%20are%20used%20to%20dye%20leather%20black%20the,long%20as%20the%20leather%20exist. Here’s another one, just like the other one. https://haandkraft.blogspot.com/2008/09/leather-dyeing.html
1700pm 04 December 2024 Ireland Galway A little chat ongoing about railways?
0005am 05 January 2024 Iceland – My entire page looks different in the new font. I wonder what helpful numptie is at that? Iceland – Don’t complain about the broth if you gave them the ingredients and said feed the … actually they said, can we get them to visit if we make it smell good? You might see about the actual smell? Can you smell anything unusual is a good start, ask a tourist not a local, the stuff eats your nasal passages in large quantities. It’s called “nose blind” in Ireland on one of our smelly products advertisements. ”Have you gone nose blind?” is the catch phrase. It’s similar to hearing loss, though you can grow back a lot of the smell and taste receptors. Oh, and NASA says you’re a little warm, so mentioning the fact that it’s hot enough to scald a fiery dragon’s arse might be nice.
0020am 05 January 2024 I’m doing well, normally it takes me until February to put my year date correct without checking, you might see how many errors in your database are caused by that, old paper records, jan 19, dec19, jan 19 feb 20 etc. NASA, ESA, you’re doing a really shite job at selling going to the Moon and Mars. How many new forms of mineral deposits have been discovered since Jan 2020? Why? Because that Tanzanite stuff, blue and purple sold like hot cakes, I saw some beautiful jewellery in some really high class stores in Australia when I was visiting, though most of it was light pink at the time, the ladies liked that colour there. It was being sold as expensive as diamond in some really amazing settings. Now, the Moon and Mars, an economics lesson: Canada – Great Lakes and Northern passage exploration was by ??? Expedition, adventurers paid by governments and enthusiastic people looking for their name on stuff, there’s even a Colemanite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colemanite named after William Tell Coleman, I saw a sample in a geology museum in Australia, though I’m not sure if he was an Irish Coleman or an English Coleman. Unfortunately there’s no okeeffite yet, so if you find something clear, soft and lustrous and non-carcinogenic keep me in mind, particularly if it’s in green. Now, after the large expeditions, you had, that’s a nice mountain and oh, there is a little copper, iron, gold and how do we get people to explore? The Gold rumour worked quite well for a long time, however it’s not going to cut the mustard for the Moon and Mars, it’s a bit hard to get your mule to carry the load home. The last one I saw was the geologist whose helicopter landed accidentally and he kicked over a rock and found the largest mineral deposit found in the second half of the twentieth Century. Yes, that is true. Now for the Moon and Mars, there’s a choice? At present you have all the little science geeks working on how to make oxygen from regolith (the layer of unconsolidated solid material covering the bedrock of a planet.), because breathing is nice, however it’s a lot easier when you look for a mineral which is a little easier to process than that awful shite on the surface, light stuff jumps to the top in a dry sandbox. On Earth it’s why the top bit is soil and the hard stuff is under the ground. So, kicking over the rock is going to be a bit difficult. In the Klondike, the word went out about the gold, the miners went with bucket and spade and dug nice holes and eventually a few large corporations bought the mines with nice maps of small over bearing layers which justified drilling test holes and later large mines. Availability of water determined the ability of industry to process the minerals at source or where to lay the rail lines or water ways (canals and barge stations) to the processing facilities, normally close to a sea port to get the shiny minerals or trees to the consumer. Now here’s where things get interesting. Only a few people have the method to get the miners to the minerals, only a few people are going to have the ability to drill the test pits, yes, it was a cool movie Armageddon and I hope you took notes, I remember most of the lessons quite well, I’ve been practicing drilling holes with drill bits and various materials from wood to masonry. For glass? You use a starting plate of??? It’s possible to drill glass and tile by using insulating tape to prevent the drill bit sliding. Why? Because someday you’re going to want to drill into diamond, and while on Earth you can use a nice vacuum with no oxygen, using a laser works, it doesn’t burn, under water, all sorts of conundrums occur and I hate to tell you guys, however it was icy and arriving to Earth and there should have been water. Large enough for it’s own local gravity and all. PV=nRT P is dependant on altitude and gravity. Oh, no, that was just the start of the billiards game. 4 side pocket and a cannon off the 3 for 10 points. It’s a brown and a green for you snooker luddites. Now how do you encourage getting a sneaky look under the rock, because those radar maps are nice, however you actually have to break a nail to get into a https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/1212630470/black-dendritic-inclusion-agate-geode and that ones from Earth and it’s 62 dollars by post. And it’s been opened already, where’s the fun in that? It’s hard? https://www.woodies.ie/blackdecker-900w-corded-angle-grinder-1151121 50 euros, I might actually get some good tools eventually, I bought mine in a big box of plastic rubbish, five tools for a hundred euros, the companies selling their first designs to get a product to market and see if the thing works for a few years. Most actually work, the engines being standard, it’s the fittings which cost. I’m recommended the DeWalt, though mostly because Irish building sites the facilities go in afterwards which triples the price of the tradies doing the labour because they have to have a thousand euros worth of kit with electric batteries and all the bloody things have to be the same so the spare batteries are all the same fittings. https://www.screwfix.ie/p/dewalt-dck677l3t-gb-18v-3-x-3-0ah-li-ion-xr-cordless-6-piece-kit/775CF?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAy9msBhD0ARIsANbk0A-YWa3ZrYgde6wYqc3vucPbrZai5RlEKtqo0fG7mbGAd0MOIdbJgtgaAudmEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds Have a look, how many batteries with all the tools??? It’s how it’s cheaper than the UK version, their tradies are so up that they just put the tools in the secondhand stores so they get cheap carpenters mates and buy a new set every job. So they have loads of batteries and the set is larger. And under 1000 sterling, as billed to the customer. They have Value Added Tax too. So have you a full set of tools made yet and a lead suit for the astronaut to wear so they can lean onto the surface to be drilled? You have to get the first bolt into the ground for the drilling machine. It’s a question of inertia, not mass, it’s a nail gun not a drill bolt. And, what you use for reaction mass? Can you shoot out the regolith out the back to stop the astronaut lifting off the ground? And cooling the gun? Velocity has a habit of friction welding stuff together? Some people??? In explosive welding, a compression force created by detonation of explosives is used to join overlapping metal sheets. The joining parts are arranged toward each other at an angle of 1–15°, depending on the material and method, and are prepared with a layer of explosive on the top. ”Ya’ll ready for this????” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ6CcEOmlYU YouTube – Stacy’s mom !!!! Now, since I’m throwing good ideas out for free, it seems to me that there’s a load of stuff in strange places in the world a long way from people who actually need it, clothing mountains being an example. On Moon and Mars, having a list of what shiny stuff is available might be nice and the value of what’s claimed, found etc under the ground might increase as other stuff is found around it, this adding to the likelihood of it being exploited commercially. So declaring the stuff found might be nice? levels of certainty? Depth of known deposit? Colman’s comment: The first “eh, that’s not as advertised and it’s puddles for the owners. Why? ”Because some poor bastard is there trying to make oxygen with stuff that not fit in the machine.” It’s not quite “Takeaway at 7?” It’s actually a 2000AD Judge Dredd horror story and there weren’t many true ones of those. Paraphrasing: On the Moon, you can mess with the Law, no one messes with the Oxygen Company.
2040pm 09 December 2024 Africa – It looks worse than normal? It’s winter, they’re burning the fields to get ready for springtime. Still working on European planting books and not realising with their weather they can get three crops a year. Peas and beans, volcanic crops, water requirements? Well, they fix Nitrogen into the soil, they actually pull in the… and well, they’re quite good at surviving drought, the little peas shrivel up, just add water and you get food or more little pea plants. Oh, and the plants are quite tough, they make excellent charcoal. With a little help from MIT, though you might find an industrial usage for the heat generated while making the charcoal? If one man is doing the job for the entire village, then he might bake bread or … Actually there’s quite a lot of heat generated, you might design a pottery kiln which operates using the heat? MIT? Masters and a few FYPs please? Oh and the little plants need the water to stimulate the roots growing, it’s similar to bulbs, though most bulbs like huge amounts of water to stimulate growing, think an Amsterdam flood after the snows of winter have melted in the Alps. After it dries out the flower seeds blow away on the wind. If they have lots of fertilizer they bud making more bulbs, if none, they put more energy into the flowers and seeds. Sandy soils give best flowers, shitty soils give more garlic bulbs. Yes, shite, fertilizer shite. It’s humid in West Africa if there are trees and ocean and onshore breezes, the plants get moisture from the air, it’s why Cork is good for Winter Barley, though we get so little rainfall in Nov and Dec. After that it’s about preventing plant diseases and rats and insects eating the food, big snakes don’t eat plants. Wellington boots and they don’t see heat from your legs. Do snakes eat insects? Why do you ask? Well, all the video footage is to demonstrate how dangerous they are to silly Europeans and a snake eating a cockroach isn’t that sexy, though the small legged lizards are quite good at eating mosquitos, we had a wild one behind our fridge in Israel, ate everything flying in the house at night.
2110pm 09 January 2024 Poland, say hello to the big man for me, I hope he’s still teaching, though he’d be about 75 now. I learned skiing there at 49.
2125pm 09 January 2024 Africa, what would you do to improve health in Africa? Actually? Nutella as a start point. Excellent food, excellent for bait for rat traps, the nice glassware, afterwards it makes beautiful plant pots for starting plants. You put the pea seed in and when it’s the right size you plant it outside. The glass lets the plant slide out and it’s easy to clean afterwards and you can have a nice glass to toast your future harvest. We had clay pots, depending on what they were made from putting them under the plants as a source of minerals after they were broken was nice. It’s why all the ancient pottery found in Ireland got reused in flower beds. And we had really good potters, it’s hard to date good pottery, it all looks the same… https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Documentation-Discoveries/Artefact/Roman-Samian-Ware/62d96a49-bcd6-48b3-947c-fbf231c5feae From Lagore Crannog, Co. Meath.
2130pm 09 January 2024 Ireland – Cork, Why no peas and beans? Oh, silly gobshites, protein and metals in the food, makes their dick stand up and their hair stay dark, they don’t like the metallic taste and oh, no it might have radioactive stuff in it. Our hair throws that out by bedtime, blondie, he/she no likey. Crones disease, silly numpties. Ask the Finns where the peas they got in the 1930s Winter War came from? Why? Well, my dad knew some lovely tricks for growing peas, though his dad grew strawberries, because they were a better cash crop, though both depended on cheap labour for picking the things, though now there’s a nice machine for that. Red sandstone, numpties. It’s an advantage in areas with little iron in the food, meat, the slaves fed porridge, they died, extra iron in the bloodstream gives a reserve of iron for menstruation and making those little cells for carrying oxygen, apparently that’s quite important. Most adaptive genes survived where everyone else died. The survival of the fittest was? Dependant on local conditions and the harshest environment, that’s when most died. You presume? That Aurocks weren’t bred. Large humans require? Cholesterol to keep their arteries small enough for blood to reach their very high up brain. Oh, Irish legends say tiny people and giants, and we liked diversity. And we had medical knowledge to keep them alive. And Neanderthals, well, there’s more than a few of their descendants around in Europe, most don’t go out during the day, because we not beautiful people according to Da Vinci and his little drawing. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Vitruvian-Man-depicting-normal-human-body-proportions-is-often-used-to-symbolize-The_fig4_343747070 Normal is overrated.
2220pm 09 January 2024 NASA – The Martian – Movie – Why did the habitat explode? PV=nRT? High humidity adds to air pressure. The habitat was gauged to maintaining oxygen and CO2 concentrations. More R per volume, bang. Europe drought, air volume, low humidity, less clouds, more sunlight strikes surface, ground dries, drought. Air conditioning drops moisture into drains. Silly question? Why are people less happy? Well, the barber used to ask questions, how are you? Oh the bathroom is damp, not happy. Barber meets plasterer, oh, what’s her face, she has a problem with her bathroom, you might have an answer? No answer, plasterer says what’s her face, need any work done? Now it’s, oh, you should be feeling better, buy a new dress.
2255pm 09 January 2023 Ireland Tomatoes, how do you increase food production? Well, you tell people to paint their cardboard boxes the Christmas stuff came in and give it a light waterproofing with acrylic paint to keep it together, and plant them with 2 for 15 euros moss peat and drop a few seeds in them. The insects don’t climb the paint, the rats and mice, you put some traps with nutella (you drill a few extra holes through the wooden traps, and cover them with see through plastic (clingfilm) to keep them warm from the wind blowing accross the top and increase the local CO2 in the box and hey presto. You do need a few sticks later to train the plant up, later, however the windfallen sticks from the local trees are useful for that. Tomatoes, peas, beans, volcanic soils, iron rich. ”Peatlands store redox active metals such as iron (Fe), although Fe concentrations in peats (∼0.2–3 g/kg) are typically lower than those reported for mineral soils (∼10–300 g/kg) (Steinmann and Shotyk, 1997, Bohn et al., 2001).” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0146638017303856#:~:text=Peatlands%20store%20redox%20active%20metals,et%20al.%2C%202001).
1625pm 20 January 2024 Iceland – NASA has improved the map.
0040am 10 February 2024 Iceland – USA Time Magazine – Icelandic Volcano Erupts Third Time in Months, Threatening Popular Blue Lagoon Tourist Site BBC – State of emergency declared in Iceland after volcanic eruption Ireland RTE News Icelandic volcano erupts for third time since December Irish Independent Rivers of lava engulf roads after eruption of Icelandic volcano Colman, normally you’d give us a little hint before hand? Well, I was a little busy, a few people said “This is my sister.” to me over the last few years and I though Bambi Thugs Song win provided a little opportunity to point out a few things to some pertinent people. So the volcano, it was on the back burner. However since it’s now quite full and weather dependant and the magma chamber shows no sign of cooling, I’d say “Make Hay While The Sun Shines.”? It’s in Time magazine because they think it might effect a major tourist attraction without realising that the open volcano and the town destroyed is going to the be the tourist attraction. ”A Modern Pompei”? Personally I’d value the contents of the houses and leave them as the tourist attraction, a single pivotal moment in Islandic history. Why is it pivotal? No one died, and still it was newsworthy. Oh, and a few Scorpion type vehicles, there’s a nice ambulance variant, for local Search and Rescue? The fuel bills a bitch, the clutch jumps occasionally, the mechanics are always freezing because the volume of cold metal is so large and they rust, however, they’re light and run nicely over that harsh terrain. And testing them there is a nice start for using the beasties on the Moon and Mars.
0300am 10 Feb 2024 USA Hawaii - Bloomberg gave it as a M6.3? Now why? Well, it’s a question of momentum< all the rock was moving inward contracting, it stopped, now it’s starting to warm up and moving outwards and bang, earthquake, and woosh, the lava should be coming up soon. Thermodynamic solstice is about 21 Jan, so this is actually right on time. I think I mentioned it up above this a few weeks ago.
0450am 10 Feb 2024 Iceland
Colman O'Keeffe 