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"Monsters of The Deep" by Richard Ellis. All about giant squid and whales and sharks and manatees and unidentified 800 lb. blobs of muscle found washed up on the beach.Also Weekly World News covers featuring sea monsters.

I dunno how it is in the States but Ive seen plenty of bumbling by search and rescue groups in Canada. Mostly swarming all over the Smoke Bluffs with 12mm hawsers and practicing top roping. I would prefer to rescue myself than have some of these jokers come out to get me. One time at Lighthouse Park some friends and I were first responders to a crazy dude who had been soloing next to his fixed line and fell off, couldnt grab it, hit some rocks, broke ankle and leg then fell in the water and started drowning. well we got him out of the water and stabilized anbd sent one guy off to cal 911 and get the rescue hovercraft brought in as he would have been much harder to evacuate by land than by sea. well the local fire department showed up to "assist" in the rescue and bumbled around with hemp ropes and rubber boots nearly precipitating a few more rescues as they sketched about on the rocks trying to get down to the victim. fortunately the hovercraft arrived and evac'ed the soloist and everyone else got to safety. how is this for gratitude - we had stripped off dudes wet cloths and put our dry fleeces on him to keep him warm. crazy soloist dude tried to steal my fleece and i had to hunt him down 4 months later and make death threats in order to recover my fleece! gratitude.

buy yourself a Russian flying saucer - $15 million US $: Photo by Vyacheslav Voyakin Yuri Bezrukov smiles as he shows off his "flying saucer" Among the stands advertising tropical tours, herbal remedies and ore mining projects at the APEC investment conference in Russia's Pacific port of Vladivostok, a former Soviet Air Force pilot hawks his latest invention: a futuristic vehicle that imitates a flying saucer. A meter-long (3-foot-long) oval disk, equipped with tail wings sticking upward, dangles on a rope above Yuri Bezrukov's head, while a TV screen in the corner shows a computer-animated film about possible uses for the five-seat craft - a weekend hop to a deserted island, a rush-hour dash to the center of town. Bezrukov has dubbed his vehicle Diskolyot, which translates into flying disk. Fifteen million dollars is all he needs to launch his brainchild, he hopefully announces to all who stop by his booth. A scientist and economist who directs a branch of the Far Eastern Institute for Research, Design, Construction and Technology, Bezrukov has been recognized as an Honored Inventor of Russia - a title the state bestows on its most respected innovators. Unfortunately, the state hasn't backed up the honor with financing. Bezrukov has taken out a Russian patent on what he calls "creation of lifting power by unconventional means," but he keeps the detailed specifications for his craft secret. He says he doesn't have the money for an international patent. Photo by Vyacheslav Voyakin A model of Bezrukov's "flying saucer" Bezrukov hasn't tested a life-size model because of finances, but a smaller electric-powered model he made in 1999 did lift 20 centimeters (8 inches) into the air, he says. "There is a principle of likeness in science," Bezrukov says. "If a small one took off, then a larger one will, too." The flying saucer is designed to be six meters long and fly at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour (437 mph) using two 250-horsepower engines. The price tag for each saucer would be $120,000. Bezrukov says he'll need as much as $13 million to produce a test model, which requires developing new steering mechanisms for the vehicle's unusual aerodynamics. "I know how to do it," he says. Bezrukov plans to produce 786 flying saucers per year, paying back the investment in five years. He's already chosen his production site: the Progress military aviation plant, which, like other defense factories, has been forced to drastically scale down its business since the 1991 Soviet collapse. Based in the Russian Far Eastern town of Arseniev, it now mostly produces anti-ship supersonic cruise missiles, known in NATO as Sunburn. Progress deputy chief engineer Andrei Kuznetsov said the plant would be happy to collaborate with Bezrukov, "but let him show us what to do and with what money."

quote: Originally posted by Necronomicon: I wonder how many Iraqis have developed cancer from all the depleted Uranium ordance we shot off over there? How about US GIs, for that matter? How does that differ from a "weapon of mass destruction" such as a nerve agent? Aren't chemical weapons banned under the Geneva Convention? Same with nerve gas, sarin, ricin and VX. So who makes those - Aum Shinro Kyi, Iraq, USA, etc.

Isnt it faster to get to Bardean than n side of Clarke?

one word for peace of mind at work - spray.

when you see it like this code: (\, / \, @) \ \, / | \,,____,,--,,/\\ / _/\, \,\\\ \_/ \ /, |, \\ \ /~--__--\ / \SQUEEZE ME || || || || || || /_' /_' ... it makes little if any sense.

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I believe it was scientists at Purdue University who came up with a cannon that fired chickens in order to test how well planes would react if they hit a bird in midair. Maybe one of those Purdue profs had a grudge against the Jet Skiiier, not that any sane person wouldnt - those things are SUCK.

i like big fat page tops

to the tune of Duke of Earl: "Muir Muir Muir on Sa-tur-day" Why hasn't anyone mentioned horsecock yet? [ 09-19-2002, 01:56 PM: Message edited by: Dru ]

its because we took the good part of the continent and left you the rest. also have you noticed Santa wears red and white, Canadian team colors. Just like at the Olympics. where the Canadian hockey teams smacked some USA ass. Speaking of which how about those Whitecaps creaming the Sounders 8 goal to 2 in the series! Go Caps!

One time I hiked up the Chief and this other guy hiked up while I was there and when he got to the summit he whipped out the cell phone and started calling up his buddies in Ontario and ranking them out for working 50 hr weeks at some boring desk job back East, where it was still snowing, while he was kicking back on a sunny day in May on top of a mountain in BC.

I beg your pardon, trask, you must not be aware that the north pole is sovereign Canadian territory. In fact you can even send him a letter via Canadian mail: Santa Claus North Pole, Nunavut H0H 0H0 I am still waiting for an answer to my last letter though. I told him I was willing to help out with his job and suggested that if he delegated me his list of girls who had been naughty I would make sure they were properly taken care of .

Rank Name Net Worth 1. Santa Claus $ ∞ 2. Richie Rich 24.7 billion 3. Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks 10 billion 4. Scrooge McDuck 8.2 billion 5. Thurston Howell III 8 billion 6. Willie Wonka 8 billion 7. Bruce Wayne 6.3 billon 8. Lex Luthor 4.7 billon 9. J.R. Ewing 2.8 billon 10. Auric Goldfinger 1.2 billon 11. C. Montgomery Burns 1 billon 12. Charles Foster Kane 1 billon 13. Cruella De Vil 875 millon 14. Gordon Gekko 650 millon 15. Jay Gatsby 600 millon

quote: Originally posted by jon: Hey everybody does things they regret, don't know if Kurt actually regrets the chipping but that was what people were doing at the time. Bottom line this weekend Kurt will be helping a crag and people that he could probably otherwise give a shit about. yes and showing you cool pictures of Alabama and places lak dat. Personally I dont care he chipped those holds just pointing out he did it. Rifle is a foo foo crag anyway.

That was nice you did not place any bolts on the established routes

if only it was a chicken, right

Hey D Dog that is bullshit, Kurt admitted chipping holds in Rifle because "other people were doing it too". I think the routes were 8th Day and 900 Foot Jesus? I could be wrong cause I dont have the guidebook. He admitted it in an interview in Climbing Mag. then claimed there was no chipping in the Potrero. We'll see if he changes his story now that the Mexicans have exiled him. [ 09-19-2002, 11:09 AM: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by iain: quote:Originally posted by Dru: Im not 100% sure but I think its Clemenceau area? Damn Dru that's right on, N. Face of Tusk on left, taken from Tiger Glacier on Clem. I can identify many peaks of North America from a photo. Exceptions are unnamed peaks north of Bella Coola, the Omineca Mts., USA SW mtns like the Organ Pipes, and the Northern Selkirks. At least I have 1 marketable skill

quote: Originally posted by Alex: that sure looks alot like valley of ten peaks... where's the teahouse and the million tourists then smartalex? HINT: the strata in the 10 Peaks is horizontal. The strata here is steeply dipping Im not 100% sure but I think its Clemenceau area?

have you tried right clicking and checking properties????????????? if this solves your problem you owe me

quote: Originally posted by michael_layton: Isn't that some aspect of Yak? Yeah sure, you are welcome to think so... and you can see from the photo that the rock is choss I may find where you live, break into your house, and steal your mtn porn photo, and scoop your routes...naming them names that insult you and your family. Watch out! I will name the routes I do this weekend "Mike Loserton is a Wimp" and also put up a 5.4 route and call it "Layton 10b".

quote: Originally posted by RobBob: Yes, wiseguys, got the disease, and trying to graduate...no chance you'll shed a little light on how to do it RIGHT??? the url of the image should end in an image file like .jpg or .gif tag... i can't tell you how to do it right unless you tell me what you're doing wrong... for example if i put the following text http://www.gifs.net/animate/kitty.gif in between the tags I get this