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6/22/2002: Mystery balls from the ocean
This from fark yesterday; normally I avoid duplicating them but hey.
One of the nicest sections of the USA, in my opinion, is the coast off of New Hampshire and Maine. It's the east coast, but not quite the same kind of touristy as the rest of the coast, maybe because the summer season is short and the water cold so it doesn't attract the typical beach-goers.
But there was something else convincing people that the NH coast wasn't for swimming this week: mystery balls. Nobody could figure out what these things were, but they were washing up on a particular New Hampshire shore, numbering in the tens of thousands.
Marine biologists were confused, and local fishermen had seen nothing like it. Everyone was concerned. Is it plastic? Is it animal? Will the whales eat them and not be able to digest them, and die? Can we use them to scour our saucepans?
Finally they figured it out: it's a particular type of algae. The motion of the waves rolls it up into these balls.
smed Saturday Jun 22 10:58 AM
mystery balls
Insert one dung-beatle.....and I'm pretty sure I've seen these things before - Discovery channel or something of that ilk.
blase Sunday Jun 23 12:59 AM
I can't find one on eBay, got more details on the specific area? I MUST have a mystery ball. 
Undertoad Sunday Jun 23 10:36 AM
All I know is Hampton, NH!
bluebomber Monday Jun 24 10:06 AM
this is just down the road from me...
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Originally posted by Undertoad All I know is Hampton, NH! |
UT, you were right in the first statement -- nothing nicer than the coast off NH/ME! Come to NH: the Land of The Free, The No Sales-Tax, and The Cheap Booze. (And when you've spent your money, go home dammit!)
elSicomoro Monday Jun 24 10:28 AM
Re: this is just down the road from me...
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Originally posted by bluebomber UT, you were right in the first statement -- nothing nicer than the coast off NH/ME! Come to NH: the Land of The Free, The No Sales-Tax, and The Cheap Booze. (And when you've spent your money, go home dammit!)
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Plus, no seat belts required in NH.
Undertoad Monday Jun 24 10:38 AM
I have a lot of family history and my momma has a little bit o' land up in Franconia, bb. So I'm allowed to stay as long as I like!
The wife and I visted Portsmouth last year, and what an awesome town.
Griff Monday Jun 24 10:47 AM
What NH's booze policy? Isn't it all state owned and operated and used to replace other forms of taxation?
elSicomoro Monday Jun 24 11:10 AM
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Originally posted by Undertoad The wife and I visted Portsmouth last year, and what an awesome town. |
dasviper Monday Jun 24 03:12 PM
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Originally posted by Griff What NH's booze policy? Isn't it all state owned and operated and used to replace other forms of taxation? |
MaggieL Monday Jun 24 04:12 PM
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Originally posted by Griff In a moment of madness the Griffs decided to ride 150 miles in two days to fight multiple sclerosis. If anyone would like to make a pledge, we'd appreciate it. |
On Sunday, I'm at mile 48.6 inside Hammondton proper, making sure that folks make that left turn to take Plymouth Road out of town...and warning that there's alway a pile of "Gravel!" there.
Griff Tuesday Jun 25 07:14 AM
We're doing the Finger Lakes Tour which starts and finishes at Seneca Falls (New York). I haven't seen the exact route but it'll be through wine country around the lakes. Radio volunteer, thats pretty cool, I guess these rides really require a lot of help. This is our first supported tour, so this will be a different experience.
CharlieG Tuesday Jun 25 07:58 AM
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Originally posted by Griff ...snip... Radio volunteer, thats pretty cool, I guess these rides really require a lot of help. ...snip... |
Yes it is - I helped out on the NYC 5 Boro (sic) Bike Tour, the Manhattan MS walk, the Governor's Island Regatta so far this year, and will probably be out for a bunch of other events. Some of these events take dozens of radio operators
The big daddy is, of course, the NYC Marathon. That usually takes close to 500 ham radio operators to pull off. That event is arranged by one of my co-workers (Steve W2ML). Any hams who want to be in NYC on Nov 3, let me know
MaggieL Tuesday Jun 25 11:55 AM
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Originally posted by Griff Radio volunteer, thats pretty cool, I guess these rides really require a lot of help. |
Long sections of the Philadelphia City-to-Shore run are outside good cellphone coverage, and cellphones are far from an ideal communications medium when it comes to coordinating the efforts of a large number of stations...about 150 in our case, IIRC.
I know our riders are comforted when they pass by to know that they can get a message to the ride management or get a call for emergency medical help handled without a lot of confusion about what their exact location is and who should handle it. And if the ride management needs to get information out to the riders for some reason, *one* radio call gets it out to every operator on the route simultaneously.
Griff Tuesday Jun 25 04:09 PM
Thats neat guys, its great that you help out like that. I'm hoping to have all the bugs out of our old road bikes by then but you never know whats around the bend.
BigV Friday Jul 8 07:46 PM
I have one of these in my aquarium, right now.
*grumble* Where's that dang camera?
Edit: The algae ball, not the mountain bike. Just so you know, you know.
Tada! It's about three inches in diameter. Very placid, gets along with all the other creatures. Good community member. Pretty. Soft.
xoxoxoBruce Friday Jul 8 10:48 PM
Did it come from the west coast? 
wolf Saturday Jul 9 01:40 AM
Did you put it in there, or did your fish do their own housekeeping?
lol Saturday Jul 9 11:46 PM
ITS NOT ALGAE IT IS A DEVICE TO RULE THE WORLD
LabRat Monday Jul 11 04:59 PM
Looks like something that belongs in the 'before' section of the sex thread's before and after trim job shots.
LabRat Monday Jul 11 05:00 PM
MADE YOU LOOK !!!
xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Jul 12 12:20 AM
You're a sick woman.
Cute, but sick. :p
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