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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:10 pm
by Holister
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:10 pm
by Kolya
Yea, good thing.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:11 pm
by Bert_the_Turtle
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:13 pm
by Holister
That was pointless.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:16 pm
by Bert_the_Turtle
It keeps the bears away
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:20 pm
by Kolya
Distant as in Texas is far away?
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:22 pm
by Bert_the_Turtle
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:31 pm
by Kolya
Especially since he uses little bitch firecrackers..
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:40 pm
by KonThaak
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:47 pm
by Bert_the_Turtle
I thought it was nitrogen bubbles.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:56 pm
by KonThaak
.........you're right. See what 7 hours of sleep in two days time does to a guy?
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:41 am
by Holister
So a meg could reach the surface. Wonderful, well now I have another reason to hate the beach.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:15 am
by Kolya
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:16 am
by Kolya
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:07 am
by Ron Caliburn
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:09 am
by Natasha
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:11 am
by Ron Caliburn
If . . .
Natasha wrote: Yes, the herd of cows chased me one time.
You might be a redneck.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:27 am
by Natasha
Beh... 
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:53 am
by Bert_the_Turtle
You were chased by a herd of cows? I *NEED* to hear that story!
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:50 am
by Ron Caliburn
Were you expecting a herd of turtles instead?
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:59 am
by Bert_the_Turtle
I wouldn't be surprised
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:01 pm
by Natasha
Turtles? Haha, very funny.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:39 pm
by Kolya
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
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:41 pm
by Kolya
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:42 pm
by Natasha
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
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:45 pm
by Kolya
I am sure of that.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:06 am
by Holister
You Ruskies are an odd lot aren't ya. What am I saying, I just sold armaments to these jokers.
By all means, carry on.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:53 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Not just the Russians, it seems to be common amoung people who live in environments that want to kill them.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:31 am
by Holister
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:12 pm
by Ron Caliburn
New one by me.