Thread: This and That

Does the USPS give or demand from you guys random drug tests?

Originally Posted by Buster

Does the USPS give or demand from you guys random drug tests?

Nah ! We're either high or loaded all the time so why bother.

Originally Posted by konakathy

Nah ! We're either high or loaded all the time so why bother.

Point I was getting to..Some of that fore mentioned Shine and a little puff on some Maui-Wowwi would be awesome. Off duty of course

Originally Posted by Buster

Point I was getting to..Some of that fore mentioned Shine and a little puff on some Maui-Wowwi would be awesome. Off duty of course

I'm on vacation now for 3 weeks.... your suggestion is under consideration.

Originally Posted by konakathy

I'm on vacation now for 3 weeks.... your suggestion is under consideration.

Platonically speaking..I wish I could join you..
Enjoy your time off....

The President

It takes a special kind of tree to have a nickname like that
Not every tree has a nickname, but 'The President' has earned it.
This giant sequoia stands at 247 feet tall, and is estimated to be
over 3,200 years old. Imagine, this tree was already 1200 years old
when Jesus walked the earth.

Been there also touched this one when I was a kid.
The General Sherman Tree

General Sherman Tree at the north end of Giant Forest.
National Park Service/Rick Cain

The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park is the largest (by volume) tree in the world.
Computing the volume of a standing tree is the practical equivalent of calculating the volume of an irregular cone. For purposes of volume comparison, only the trunk of a giant sequoia is measured, including the restored volume of basal fire scars. Using these accepted standards and actual field measurements taken in 1975, the volume of the Sherman Tree was calculated to be slightly over 52,500 cubic feet (1,486.6 cubic meters).

	Feet	Meters
Height above Base	274.9	83.8
Circumference at Ground	102.6	31.1
Maximum Diameter at Base	36.5	11.1
Diameter 60' (18.3 m) above base	17.5	5.3
Diameter 180' (54.9 m) above base	14.0	4.3
Diameter of Largest Branch	6.8	2.1
Height of First Large Branch above the Base	130.0	39.6
Average Crown Spread	106.5	32.5

Sequoia & Kings Canyon
National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Sequoia and Kings Canyon
National Parks
To Find the Biggest Tree
(2002)
,
and was revised in
December 2012 by National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey staff.
The Largest Giant Sequoias by Trunk Volume
http://www.nps.gov/seki/naturescienc...t-Sequoias.pdf

I was stationed in Calif at Edwards AFB with the SR-71 program. I was not allowed to ride in the second seat.

Trees. I drove through one of those big trees back in the day. Hell, lots of people did.

You Could Fit All the Planets Between the Earth and the Moon

by Fraser Cain on October 25, 2014

You could fit all the planets within the average distance to the Moon.


I ran into this intriguing infographic over on Reddit that claimed that you could fit all the planets of the Solar System within the average distance between the Earth and the Moon.I’d honestly never heard this stat before, and it’s pretty amazing how well they tightly fit together.
But I thought it would be a good idea to doublecheck the math, just to be absolutely certain. I pulled my numbers from NASA’s Solar System Fact Sheets, and they’re a little different from the original infographic, but close enough that the comparison is still valid.

Planet	Average Diameter (km)
Mercury	4,879
Venus	12,104
Mars	6,771
Jupiter	139,822
Saturn	116,464
Uranus	50,724
Neptune	49,244
Total	380,008

The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km. And check it out, that leaves us with 4,392 km to spare.

Originally Posted by konakathy

I'm going to have find this moonshine. This is going to be a hit at my HS reunion next week. Better than Boone's Farm Apple Wine we use to chug. Ugh!

Hawaiian Moonshine Exists, And It's So Good It's Been Outlawed Twice

Trivia-John Wayne once got his crew out of the brig by suggesting the party they attended was serving okolehao. Some submarine movie I think.