Cuzscience

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[–] Cuzscience 4 points 1 month ago

OP must follow Rox News.

[–] Cuzscience 5 points 1 month ago

If somehow there is fraud, then it won’t be like Jan 6.

[–] Cuzscience 5 points 1 month ago

Not to be picky, but It appears that whoever(whatever) wrote this can’t differentiate the country of Mexico and the state of New Mexico in the USA. Hmmmm

[–] Cuzscience 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Il link non funziona per me.

[–] Cuzscience 2 points 2 months ago

Last year’s Elf on a Shelf?

[–] Cuzscience 11 points 2 months ago

Looks like chicken mole. Hope to try it sometime (maybe at a more simple restaurant).

[–] Cuzscience 1 points 2 months ago

“Mysterious“ ?

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I love England rule (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by Cuzscience to c/lovecraft_mythos
 
[–] Cuzscience 3 points 3 months ago

Senator Padmé Amidala after partying all night.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19125777

Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelike with RPG elements.

[–] Cuzscience 3 points 3 months ago

A lot of heat and a lot of pressure would be a start, but then there’s a time factor as well. The heat and pressure mess around with the rocks mineral constituents, but the real “magic” begins as those minerals start recrystallizing. In time (geologic time) that recrystallization makes a much harder rock.

I honestly don’t know if the process can be sped up. I’m thinking of something like firing bricks, but bricks are made with specific ingredients and certain impurities are specifically excluded because they hurt the manufacturing. When you start with shale, lord knows what mother nature threw into that specific specimen and how she arranged it.

I guess the easiest way to get shale harder might be to crush it finely, mix it with water and bake it. If you’re lucky the clay minerals will find each other and form a strong matrix. It wouldn’t be slate, or even a rock anymore, but bricks are handy sometimes.

[–] Cuzscience 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Shale is not a good building material, it’s too friable (crumbly). Slate starts off as the same rock ans shale except it undergoes a bunch of heat and pressure which makes it much less friable and an excellent material for things like roofing tiles and mantles.

[–] Cuzscience 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Reno, Nevada

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Ted Faro on tour? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by Cuzscience to c/horizon
 

I saw this on the news and my mind took me to Thebes.

[–] Cuzscience 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Marriotts. Not huge fans of alcohol.

 
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Cuzscience to c/bats
 

Waiting for the gang to leave for their nightly feed. They didn’t leave until after sunset this evening.

 

The Mexican Free-tailed bats have already started heading south for the winter, but we had local press come by to say hi and help spread the word about bat conservation.

 

We’ve finally gone live on the Bracken Cave cams. It took several years to finally get a reliable internet connection close enough to get the equipment connected. Hopefully they’ll stay functional for a while.

Recently the bats have been starting their emergence anywhere from 7:30-8:30 pm CDT so 12:30-1:30 am UTC, but they do their own thing and sometimes it can vary by hours from one day to another. The emergence is usually pretty steady and last roughly 3 hours but much is in the dark. You can usually still hear the cool sounds of millions of bat wings in flight.

The morning returns are hit and miss as the bats return in spurts anywhere from 5 am to 10am with outliers before and after.

The link is to a local TV station covering the cams with useful background.

 

The little guy tries an evasive maneuver against the hawk.

 

Most every night, raptors line up for the bat buffet at Bracken Cave Preserve. The bats pour out of the cave for about 3 hours. he bats exiting is a swarming defense strategy to not getting eaten. When you see a young or sick bat stray from the main cloud of bats, the raptors take advantage of the opportunity. Here is one of several hawks that feeds daily before dusk. After dusk, the owls own the skies here in our little Texas wildlife preserve.

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submitted 1 year ago by Cuzscience to c/bats
 

Here’s a happy snap from a recent emergence at Bracken Cave Preserve. These are Mexican Free-tailed bats that are part of the maternal colony that summers here in the Texas hill country. We host the colony of approximately 20 million bats from spring to fall. It takes 3+ hours for colony to leave the cave and they’re pretty orderly about it.

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