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Re: The Last Word I think most of the raptors at Woodland Park are birds that can't be released due to injury or imprinting problems. That omits the wild ones that nest there because they like it, which is a fairly large number, I think. Most years there's a pair of bald eagles that nest in a tree that's line of sight, about 60 meters away, to the raptor display yard. Makes life there more interesting.

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Re: The Last Word We have a great grey in the zoo here. He's one that was hit by something and can't fly now.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Any Mac users here? What's the Mac application that's the equivalent of Wordpad? I want to store flat-text only, no formatting of any sort.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER By then, it won't matter to me anywhere near as much.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER * rimshot *

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oh, I know the train of thought. I'd just prefer to keep my job, that's all. Call me a wimp.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yeah, but it's a Catholic school. Officially, that sort of thing is frowned upon.

Re: The Last Word Also, great grey owls are friggin' big.

Re: Airlocks are for losers I'm not sure that the cooling problem is a short-term enough problem to concern someone pushed out an air lock. The power emitted by radiation, L, is L = (Area) * (Stefan-Boltzmann constant) * (T^4) where T is the temperture in Kelvin. Choosing a 70-inch tall, 200 pound person, and the Body Surface Area formula from here, I get 1.65 square meters for area. The S-B constant is 5.67e-8 Watts/m^2/K^4, and T = 37 C = 310 K, so L is 864 Watts for that person. The emissivity of the body matters there; strictly speaking that simple relation assumes an emissivity of 1. I think that's OK for a butt-nekkid solid at blackbody at 310 K, but I don't know that for certain, and certainly simple suits (like the reflective metal-foil types) would drop that power output substantially. Adding more specs (male, 35 years old) to our subject person, and taking the metabolic rate formula from Wikipedia (the Mifflin-St Jeor Equation), I get a basal metabolic rate of 752 Watts for that body. Looks like lots depends on what you assume for your suit, but with the heat capacity of water being about 4000 J/kg/degree, my guess is that thermal problems aren't going to kill you as fast as other things.

Re: Top Signs You Need to Rethink Your Playing Style.... If you already know it's a canned or "railroad" adventure and you'll only be allowed to learn relevant information at the speed of plot, then bring a brawler, not a detective. Violent & stupid is what that campaign's made for. And all it's made for.

Re: The Last Word As opposed to the great grey owl, which has many rings around the eyes?

Re: The Last Word I give up. Too many superficialities from which to choose.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Cheapness. No fun, just cheapness.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Not exactly. Also, they don't get to work with anything that has real gold in it, either.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER This is the 2nd quarter of "life sciences" (no calculus) physics. Today we'll be measuring densities using Archimedes' Principle.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER First lab of the quarter today. I'll be on my feet a bunch.

Re: The Last Word Short-horned owls are the only owls (besides snowy owls) who nest on the ground?

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I make it with beans; I find all-meat chili too rich for my taste, and the right beans add a taste I like. There was a chili recipe thread in the last month or two; I posted mine there.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Maybe I'll make another batch of chili tomorrow.

Re: The Last Word Burrowing owls are active during the day.

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Re: The Last Word Could well be that was a blue law in the state they started in, and they decided to keep it as a policy.