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Earth compared to Jupiter's red spot.

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Coming soon to a city near you.
Trouble in Paradise by Paul Joseph Watson.

 

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Ocean Palm Motel in Miami Beach, FL. 1961 ad.

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Guy in Norway can't afford a real horn so he hired his Husky to announce their presence. This is so cool. I love Huskies.

 

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420-mile markers (Go Up In Smoke) in the U.S.
The state of Idaho recently threw in the towel and replaced the sign for mile marker 420 on U.S. Highway 95 with one that reads "419.9" instead. It follows in the footsteps of Washington state and Colorado, which have taken similar steps in recent years, due to thieves stealing the road signs on account of their numeric connection to marijuana culture.
If they weren't before, 420-mile markers are now an endangered species. Few major highways traverse 420 miles or more within the borders of a single state. By my count, the removal and replacement of the two signs in Washington, one sign in Colorado and now one in Idaho means that there may only be 11 420-mile markers left in the United States.
Three of these are located in the state of Texas, not exactly a hotspot of pot culture. The remaining eight are sprinkled across the country, from Wilmington, N.C., to just outside of Gustine, Calif.
Interstate 5, California
Interstate 10, Texas
Interstate 20, Texas
Interstate 35, Texas
Interstate 25, New Mexico
Interstate 40, Tennessee
Interstate 40, North Carolina
Interstate 70, Kansas
Interstate 75, Florida
Interstate 80, Nebraska
Interstate 90, Montana
Interstate 70, Colorado (replaced)
U.S. Highway 95, Idaho (replaced)
U.S. Highway 12, Washington (missing)
State Highway 20, Washington (replaced)
Of course, there are a number of other highway signs that have attained notoriety among marijuana smokers over the years. Who could forget the famous Shamokin/Pottsville sign on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania? Or Wisconsin's Bong Recreation Area? Or the entire town of Weed, Calif.? Not to mention numerous state and county roads in the United States numbered 420.

The first picture is the replacement 420 mile marker on Interstate 70 in CO east of Stratton, CO.

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up here I know of a "Stoner" road in the middle of nowhere.

The sign for it is hung on the com/power lines going across the road, well out of reach of your average thief.

All the other road signs along there are on top of the stop sign.

 

 

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Golden And Lady Amhearst Pheasants

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Tower Of Jewels. I had to ask what the name was, we saw these several times in our last trip out west. Beautiful.

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I like cats, my wife is a cat lover. She really enjoyed this video.

From the video: Jan 5, 2016 Max Canada Lynx, the educational animal ambassador takes a moment to get some good scratchin' before he sits down for his meal. He was born at a zoo in May 2011. Max is not domesticated but has been humanized. He still has wild tendencies. He educates the public locally on the endangered/threatened (in lower 48 states) Canada Lynx in hopes that people will be driven to conserve our environment and protect our wildlife. Technically, they are listed as "threatened" but in my state of NY they are considered "extirpated." However, it's legal to trap these beautiful animals in Canada and Alaska. He is NOT declawed. During the winter he weighs 40 pounds and summer about 34. He has about 4 inches of fur in this video which makes him look fat....I mean fluffy! This video is NOT taken in my home but where he has an indoor enclosure. This is Max's rug with his fur, straw and other scents that he loves. He doesn't like the vacuum. Max also has outdoor housing where he spends most of his time.

 

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How the Honduran white bat converts large leaves into tents
Some of the most bizarre wildlife exists in the Honduran rainforest. Take the Honduran white fruit bat (Ectophylla alba), for example.
The size of a golf ball, these tiny fluffy creatures love to snuggle together in leaf plants like peas in a pod. They are also polygamous; each little colony houses up to six females and one male.
The tent-making bats
These white-winged cotton-ball-looking bats create their nook by nibbling the side veins jutting out from the Heliconia plant, causing the large leaves to fold down to form a tent.
The leaf tents allow the bats to avoid parasites such as bat flies. When sunlight filters through the canopy, their white fur appears green, which gives them superb camouflage!
While most bats sleep in caves, these neotropical bats, also called Caribbean white tent-making bats, spend their leaves eating figs and roosting in peace.

https://discvr.blog/the-honduran-white-bat-builds-tents-made-out-of-leaves/

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I've never heard of Loma Linda and I thought this was a really professional photoshop .... NOPE ... this plant-based Nutmeat is real. I ain't eating that.

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19 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

420-mile markers (Go Up In Smoke) in the U.S.
The state of Idaho recently threw in the towel and replaced the sign for mile marker 420 on U.S. Highway 95 with one that reads "419.9" instead. It follows in the footsteps of Washington state and Colorado, which have taken similar steps in recent years, due to thieves stealing the road signs on account of their numeric connection to marijuana culture.
If they weren't before, 420-mile markers are now an endangered species. Few major highways traverse 420 miles or more within the borders of a single state. By my count, the removal and replacement of the two signs in Washington, one sign in Colorado and now one in Idaho means that there may only be 11 420-mile markers left in the United States.
Three of these are located in the state of Texas, not exactly a hotspot of pot culture. The remaining eight are sprinkled across the country, from Wilmington, N.C., to just outside of Gustine, Calif.
Interstate 5, California
Interstate 10, Texas
Interstate 20, Texas
Interstate 35, Texas
Interstate 25, New Mexico
Interstate 40, Tennessee
Interstate 40, North Carolina
Interstate 70, Kansas
Interstate 75, Florida
Interstate 80, Nebraska
Interstate 90, Montana
Interstate 70, Colorado (replaced)
U.S. Highway 95, Idaho (replaced)
U.S. Highway 12, Washington (missing)
State Highway 20, Washington (replaced)
Of course, there are a number of other highway signs that have attained notoriety among marijuana smokers over the years. Who could forget the famous Shamokin/Pottsville sign on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania? Or Wisconsin's Bong Recreation Area? Or the entire town of Weed, Calif.? Not to mention numerous state and county roads in the United States numbered 420.

The first picture is the replacement 420 mile marker on Interstate 70 in CO east of Stratton, CO.

 

We have a road near here that is named "Coonhunter RD.", surprised someone hasn't made an issue of it.

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46 minutes ago, pipedreams said:

We have a road near here that is named "Coonhunter RD.", surprised someone hasn't made an issue of it.

Yeah, unless you live in a real 'caucasian' area or you live in an area with a lot of hunters it's surprising someone hasn't screamed racism over that name.

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5 minutes ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Yeah, unless you live in a real 'caucasian' area or you live in an area with a lot of hunters it's surprising someone hasn't screamed racism over that name.

This sign is right on a main highway, would imagine it was named that because racoon hunting was a big thing years ago.  I should stop and take a picture but usually doing 65+ when passing it.

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2 minutes ago, pipedreams said:

This sign is right on a main highway, would imagine it was named that because racoon hunting was a big thing years ago.  I should stop and take a picture but usually doing 65+ when passing it.

We have a lot of hunting near where I live and there are some road names, especially out in the boonies that would trigger a whole herd of liberals, but yeah we have a Coonhunter Lane and several like that. They can justify it where I hunt at because we have a white family that has been here for generations that is named Coon.

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3 hours ago, pipedreams said:

We have a road near here that is named "Coonhunter RD.", surprised someone hasn't made an issue of it.

Minneapolis suburb named Coon Rapids.  IIRC, the city tried two or three times to change the name to make it more "friendly" to some.  It failed on every vote.

 

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Coon Rapids -- world headquarters of the evil SuperAmerica. 

 

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1 hour ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Where's Jack!

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The Crawler-Crusher - Swamp Clearing Machine - Heaviest Tracked Amphibious Machine Ever Built - Operational In 4.1967.
Built to clear land, much of it swamp across Florida for the Cross Florida Barge Canal which was proposed to run from Jacksonville to Yankeetown.
At 306 US tons fully loaded and 204 US tons dry, the Crawler-Crusher is the fourth heaviest amphibious vehicle of all time. It is surpassed only by the Aist-class LCAC hovercraft at 302.8 metric tons fully loaded, the Saunders-Roe N.4 Mk.III passenger hovercraft, at around 320 metric tons, and the Zubr-class LCAC hovercraft, which can weigh over 500 tons when fully loaded. The Crawler-Crusher is by far the largest and heaviest tracked amphibian of all time, vastly surpassing all other conventionally- (non-hovercraft) powered amphibious vehicles. For such a heavy vehicle, the Crawler-Crusher was surprisingly buoyant, able to float in just 7 feet 10 inches of water. In terms of overall dimensions, the Crawler-Crusher was 58 feet long, 24 feet wide, and 22 feet tall.
 Able to mow over trees up to 6 feet in diameter, or as many as eight 2 foot diameter cypress trees at once, the Crawler-Crusher worked with such astonishing efficiency that it served as a rallying point for environmentalists.
You can read the story about the proposed canal and the Crusher-Crawler including much of the building plans of the machine at the link. Included in the article are canal maps and many patent papers for Crusher-Crawler.
The Crusher-Crawler failed miserably in its intended task in that it was supposed to push the downed, crushed trees and brush down into the mud, never to be seen again. The original study had been conducted using northern hardwood trees, while the trees along the intended route of the canal were mostly softwoods: gum, bay, pine, cedar, and cypress. As the softwoods sat under water or extremely wet ground, they would repeatedly rise back to the surface.
Very thorough article:
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/crawler-crusher/

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On 9/20/2022 at 5:23 PM, Schmidt Meister said:

420-mile markers (Go Up In Smoke) in the U.S.
The state of Idaho recently threw in the towel and replaced the sign for mile marker 420 on U.S. Highway 95 with one that reads "419.9" instead. It follows in the footsteps of Washington state and Colorado, which have taken similar steps in recent years, due to thieves stealing the road signs on account of their numeric connection to marijuana culture.
If they weren't before, 420-mile markers are now an endangered species. Few major highways traverse 420 miles or more within the borders of a single state. By my count, the removal and replacement of the two signs in Washington, one sign in Colorado and now one in Idaho means that there may only be 11 420-mile markers left in the United States.
Three of these are located in the state of Texas, not exactly a hotspot of pot culture. The remaining eight are sprinkled across the country, from Wilmington, N.C., to just outside of Gustine, Calif.
Interstate 5, California
Interstate 10, Texas
Interstate 20, Texas
Interstate 35, Texas
Interstate 25, New Mexico
Interstate 40, Tennessee
Interstate 40, North Carolina
Interstate 70, Kansas
Interstate 75, Florida
Interstate 80, Nebraska
Interstate 90, Montana
Interstate 70, Colorado (replaced)
U.S. Highway 95, Idaho (replaced)
U.S. Highway 12, Washington (missing)
State Highway 20, Washington (replaced)
Of course, there are a number of other highway signs that have attained notoriety among marijuana smokers over the years. Who could forget the famous Shamokin/Pottsville sign on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania? Or Wisconsin's Bong Recreation Area? Or the entire town of Weed, Calif.? Not to mention numerous state and county roads in the United States numbered 420.

The first picture is the replacement 420 mile marker on Interstate 70 in CO east of Stratton, CO.

Just use left hand bolts, sit back and laugh. 

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Welcome to Fall.

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