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Old 02-17-2015, 05:25 AM   #691
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I looked up this very fact a few years ago when I watched a snow melting operation in action and the answer depends very much on the ambient temperature. If it's near freezing, the energy cost to melt is very small, and as it gets colder, trucking is the better deal. I forget the break even point.
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Old 02-17-2015, 05:42 AM   #692
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Firefighters work at the scene of an overnight blaze in Philadelphia. The region has suffered freezing temperatures that have closed schools
From this morning's edition of The Times.
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Old 02-17-2015, 11:31 AM   #693
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The TV coverage actually showed snow being dumped in the sea.
Perhaps the memo hadn't reached the crews at that point.
I wonder how much energy you have to use to melt the snow versus dumping it in the ocean.
A 350 page cost/benefit analysis and an environmental audit is needed.
Son of a bitch, I did a whole long post about the whys and wheres of ocean dumping complete with a picture a bulldozer climbing Boston's biggest snowpile (roughly 61,933,000 6-inch snowballs), and how I saw one pile at Northeastern University that was still 40 ft high at the end of June.

I must have previewed and never posted... again.
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Old 02-24-2015, 12:08 AM   #694
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♪ Mummies for sale or rent, extra parts fifty cents ♪
Don’t care if you’ve got pets, won’t smoke your cigarettes
♫ Two hours of push push boom, in an 8 by 10 four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, so I’m selling the load. ♫

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Old 02-24-2015, 12:25 AM   #695
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Old 02-26-2015, 08:08 PM   #696
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Maybe just a rumor, but I've heard this winter has been especially wintery in the northeast.
If that's true it would explain why Nantucket has Slurpee surf, waves of slush.
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Old 02-26-2015, 09:37 PM   #697
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[icicle font]Tha's pretty damn cold.[/icicle font]

oh. wait. the font has frozen shut. durrrrrrr
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Old 03-01-2015, 03:52 PM   #698
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Bright spots on Ceres...

I cannot wait to find out what this is. I'm expecting ice.
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Old 03-01-2015, 04:09 PM   #699
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Windows, how else would they see out?
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Old 03-01-2015, 04:54 PM   #700
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I think Happy Monkey just put an LED inside a larger and more recently created tape-creation.
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Old 03-01-2015, 05:24 PM   #701
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It's Ceres's Vegas, Baby.
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Old 03-01-2015, 07:39 PM   #702
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So we're not going to find out because what happens in Ceres's Vegas stays in Ceres's Vegas.
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Old 03-02-2015, 04:58 PM   #703
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Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA

Big pic apologies, but, damn.
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Old 03-03-2015, 11:57 AM   #704
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Ooooops.
This picture is not the one I intended to post, and I don't seem to be able to edit it...
The one I intended was of a tree in a pasture... the link is below

But I just saw it in my dentist's office, and what was neat was it being a hologram.

As I moved from right to left, the tree's green leaves were replaced by golden brown.
Then as I moved further to the left, the leaves were gone and the scene changed to a winter snow scene.
Really well done. Here is a link

I wish I could show that effect here... but you just had to be there.
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Old 03-05-2015, 09:06 AM   #705
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More pics from my G-son, Sam - northeast Oregon

I think these were taken close to the OR-WA border,
because other pics showed prickly-pear cactus among the rocks
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