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Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)
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I've always wondered, now we know.
Extrapolating that wondering got me to just how much rain, in total, falls on the planet during an average year.
Turns out to be a rather large number, 5.1 x 10 to the 14th power cubic meters or about 900 BILLION tons per minute.
Ain't statistics fun?
Stared at that for 10 minutes. Guess I’m normal?
Funny Wife. I don't know why these 2 videos don't have sound. Sorry.
That brings back memories, before I broke myself headbutting a semi, I was mad on caving and there are some of the country's deepest just up the road.
I remember guiding a university survey group to map one, we had to grovel for over 600m to get to the main descent dragging shitloads of gear including 90m of ladder because one of the surveyors refused to use ascenders.
I prefer prussicking myself, much easier to carry.
It turned out to be well worth the effort, what she didn't know about caves is probably irrelevant or wrong and I learned more about cave morphology(her doctoral speciality) from talking to her that trip than before or since.
Below is part of the grovel section
The lady in question at the head of the first big chamber.
I dropped my camera about 30 seconds after taking this and broke off the rewind lever so I didn't get shots of the main chamber, which was huge. There was a rock the size of a small house on the floor and a corresponding hole in the roof, would have been a rather brown moment to be in there to see that fall happen.
As well as surveying and mapping, they also excavated the creekbed on the floor at our deepest point and took sediment samples. Pollen found was carbon dated and determined an approximate age of 750,000 years.
In my younger days, I did caving for about 12 years. Saw alot if interesting things.... Did a fair amount of repelling and rope climbing.
Hey, sometimes a truck's just gotta pee.
Did you ever do any rundown abseiling?
A mate was an SAS medic and got me into it, you have your figure 8 on the back of the harness.
If that gets old you can try what he called a "mad" rundown.
You gather as much slack as you dare take a running jump off the edge and brake as late as possible.
The pic is him just hitting the brakes after free falling about 30m. We used double 10mm rope for less stretch.
Don't leave bait in a cooler in your plane when fishing in Alaska.
I've never seen a Bear eat a Plane.Don't leave bait in a cooler in your plane when fishing in Alaska.
Back in college, about 1975, my buddy and I snuck up to the top of the 14 story girls dorm and rappelled down the front of it. Security and and a nice crowd were waiting for us when we touched down. Two quarters of probation, but didn't get expelled..... At least it wasn't "double secret probation"
Aah, nothing a little duct tape and two new tires won't fix. Man, those bears have a serious sense of entitlement.
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We tried that on a three story sorority house using the fire escape. The dorm dike and campus police were waiting for us.Back in college, about 1975, my buddy and I snuck up to the top of the 14 story girls dorm and rappelled down the front of it. Security and and a nice crowd were waiting for us when we touched down. Two quarters of probation, but didn't get expelled..... At least it wasn't "double secret probation"
Apparently we weren't the first ones to have tried it.
On the contrary, when you're dry caving you can go anywhere you can squeeze your body into, as in the gif to which i responded.
Having to drag a load of bombs around with you, and being so drastically limited in your exploration possibilities by that, is boring.
But it takes all sorts old mate, enjoy the nether regions any way you choose, just don't go chasing Dave Shaw, eh?
Fuk off, it is my day off asshole...You called me ON MY OFF DAY. Now, if you want to renegotiate our contract and have me be on call... Let's talk, I'm 10K a day. No. Ok, see you Monday.
What a piss poor way to go, eh?
That was the one thing that would wake my panic monkey, doing just what he was up to.
In 1979 myself and 3 mates did a traverse between the lower reaches of two separate caves.
This involved digging silt from a crack in the floor of one cave, that was the entrance, and squeezing headfirst down that into a roughly triangular pipe about 18" wide and 14" high, following that into a "flattener", a horizontal open space between 2 faces of rock, this one about 9" high.
That leads to the underground creek that formed the traverse.
When we reached it, there was an unexpected silt buildup to within 2" of the top and we had to scoop out a channel through about 50m.
When we got through to the main channel, which is about 4' diameter but eventually opens to subway size, the silt had created a sort of U bend that was full of water.
We had no choice but to retrace the traverse.
All just good tiring fun until we reached the surface to find it just starting to rain.
It gets my neck hairs up thinking about it now.
Back in college, about 1975, my buddy and I snuck up to the top of the 14 story girls dorm and rappelled down the front of it. Security and and a nice crowd were waiting for us when we touched down. Two quarters of probation, but didn't get expelled..... At least it wasn't "double secret probation"
Huh?
I went to nursing school with all girls.
I was in the same dorms till my senior year.
Just walk down the hall.
I saw a lot of crazy things. Thats all I have to say about that.
Thats the same look Timothy Treadwell and his gf got that said 'yo asses ain't goin nowhere.'
Joke man, it’s a joke.
But I do prefer underwater to dry, always know what I’m breathing that way.
