Thomas Henry Kelly, Jr. was born May 15, 1927 in Mobile, Alabama. When Did You First Read Tenth Legion? Was it Steve that called him the poet laureate of turkey hunting? He has done some of the best writing in hunting I have seen. It was Steve’s column in Gray’s that first clued me into him.
Dyson spheres and ringworlds can be stable
Dyson Spheres are a sci-fi stable. I read Ringworld, a novel by Larry Niven, back in the day. It did a lot to make the public conscious of them. Surprisingly, some Dyson spheres and ringworlds can be stable A Dyson swarm made of solar panels would make Earth uninhabitable, suggests study Some amusing news about them. …
Mahseer
The channel has a lot more. The usual horrific fish handling. The cult fish of the Himalayas. If only I could have fished there 200 years ago with modern tackle.
Biophotons
All living things, including humans, constantly emit a ghostly glow – and it appears to vanish almost as soon as we die. Monitoring this signal could one day help track forest health or even detect diseases in people. The existence of this barely perceptible glow has been controversial, but it is thought to be the …
CCTV footage captures fault line moving for first time during Myanmar earthquake.
I was sent another version last night and I looked and saw nothing. https://youtu.be/CfKFK4-HNmk?t=384 I looked this up where it was explained and was wowed by what I missed. Very dramatic. Apparently, the first video of such an event..
What’s Causing the Parkinson’s Belt?
Steve’s Parkinson’s may be unrelated to this but I was surprised that rates have risen like they have.
Gustav Klimt, 17 years old.
Gustav Klimt was 17 years old in 1879 when he drew (with charcoal and black chalk) this portrait of a young girl. His superb technical ability as a draughtsman is evident even as a teenager in the way he uses shadow to create a three-dimensional picture on paper. Wow, 17!
Poetry, Really?
Key Takeaways Romance is the most searched book genre in the country, at 22 states Fiction and Poetry tie for second place, the preference in 9 states each The Rise of Romantasy Book genres are fickle things: more a guideline than a category set in stone. And often genres combine to give rise to new ones. …
Heat Wave
this is INSANE… temps are in the 100s across North Dakota right now, while it’s in the 60s in Louisiana Max Velocity Not a good sign this early? Warm by Steve, too. A significant heat wave is expected to hit the central part of the USA and Canada. Even at the US-Canada border, temperatures …
Taimen
October 2020. Tugur river, Russia, 164cm taimen (Hucho Taimen) on fly // Taimen 164cm fly fishing, R. Tugur, October 2020 Off De Hook My dream fish from October 2024. Some pictures and measurement videos of new IGFA All-Tackle Record taimen (Hucho Taimen). Tugur river, Russia. Video by Max Mamaev // Photos and videos of record …