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Holister · Post by **Holister** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:10 pm

Most Ive seen are brown bears,
I saw a live grizzly once in Canada. Biggest damn thing on two feet Ive ever seen. Good thing I was watching it through bincoculars at the time 300 yards away.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:10 pm

Yea, good thing.

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:11 pm

I have a distant cousin in Texas that lights and tosses firecrackers into the air when he goes fishing. Every so often he'll toss another one.

Holister · Post by **Holister** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:13 pm

That was pointless. :roll:

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:16 pm

It keeps the bears away :lol:

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:20 pm

Distant as in Texas is far away?

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:22 pm

Like, he's related to my Pop Pop (Grandpa) on my mother's side and we have little to no contact with that branch of the family so God only knows how many branches away he is haha.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:31 pm

Especially since he uses little bitch firecrackers..

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:40 pm

Kolya wrote:If I live at the bottom of the Pacific. I mean the bottom? That is where I live, always, born and raised as if an Irishman in a pub, I can go to the surface and not explode, even if slowly, like an Irishman getting a little sun?

Sorry, Kolya... I didn't make my point too terribly clear; my bad.

The bends has nothing to do with exploding... Exploding from a lack of pressure is simply a depressurization problem; humans have the same problem when exposed to the vacuum of outer space; whales have that problem when brought to altitudes in excess of a few hundred feet above sea level.

The bends is where an increase and subsequent decrease in the pressure that your body is accustomed to being under causes the hydrogen to form bubbles in your bloodstream, which can then lead to excrutiating pain and the locking up of joints, or excrutiating pain and death.

That, in its entirety, was the point I was trying to make... Sorry for the confusion.

Most sharks would probably make it to the surface alright. Depressurization explosions usually don't matter much how fast or slow you take the trip; that only matters for the bends.

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:47 pm

I thought it was nitrogen bubbles.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:56 pm

.........you're right. See what 7 hours of sleep in two days time does to a guy?

Holister · Post by **Holister** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:41 am

So a meg could reach the surface. Wonderful, well now I have another reason to hate the beach.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:15 am

I know the difference.

I was saying that if depressurisation does not kill it, the bends would... or at least force it to reconsider its trajectory.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:16 am

Holister wrote:So a meg could reach the surface. Wonderful, well now I have another reason to hate the beach.

Depends on the beach, some would say.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:07 am

Holister wrote:Most Ive seen are brown bears,
I saw a live grizzly once in Canada. Biggest damn thing on two feet Ive ever seen. Good thing I was watching it through bincoculars at the time 300 yards away.

When a bear charges it doens't look like it's going very fast and it doesn't realy seem to be getting nearer in any hurry. But bears can charge at upto 45 mph . . . so 300 yards isn't all that safe either.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:09 am

Ron Caliburn wrote:
Holister wrote:Most Ive seen are brown bears,
I saw a live grizzly once in Canada. Biggest damn thing on two feet Ive ever seen. Good thing I was watching it through bincoculars at the time 300 yards away.

When a bear charges it doens't look like it's going very fast and it doesn't realy seem to be getting nearer in any hurry. But bears can charge at upto 45 mph . . . so 300 yards isn't all that safe either.

Cows, too, but not as fast as bears. Yes, the herd of cows chased me one time.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:11 am

If . . .

Natasha wrote: Yes, the herd of cows chased me one time.

You might be a redneck.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:27 am

Beh...

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:53 am

You were chased by a herd of cows? I *NEED* to hear that story!

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:50 am

Were you expecting a herd of turtles instead?

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:59 am

I wouldn't be surprised :lol:

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:01 pm

Turtles? Haha, very funny. :lol:

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:39 pm

Natasha wrote:Cows, too, but not as fast as bears. Yes, the herd of cows chased me one time.

You never told us that story. Thanks for sharing

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:41 pm

Ron Caliburn wrote:Were you expecting a herd of turtles instead?

Glad I was not sleepy when I read this one.

I still may have nightmares.

I mean, that is just a strange mental image..a herd of turtles.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:42 pm

Kolya wrote:
Natasha wrote:Cows, too, but not as fast as bears. Yes, the herd of cows chased me one time.

You never told us that story. Thanks for sharing

Well, I am not full of surprises, but you not know everything, too

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:45 pm

I am sure of that.

Holister · Post by **Holister** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:06 am

You Ruskies are an odd lot aren't ya. What am I saying, I just sold armaments to these jokers. :roll:

By all means, carry on.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:53 pm

Not just the Russians, it seems to be common amoung people who live in environments that want to kill them.

Holister · Post by **Holister** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:31 am

I was talking with Carter about this thread. He feels as though the whole Atlantis angle may be off, and that the sight may be The Lost City of Rhadia.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:12 pm

New one by me.