Strange, weird or odd or whatever beach finds thread….
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The numbers ain’t what they used to be. Used to be fields of them around when I was a kid. I remember years when you couldn’t drive the North Cascades highway without passing by hundreds of colored-up gourds, all stacked up.
Now it's all store-bought farmed-gourds.
The humpkin will not cut orange. Walk on.
Here on the North Coast the standards are a bit different. Not judging, just observing. Good thing I brought some some MA 9 smoked coho for the extended family.
Put that in black and white, boost some contrast on the sky and it's pretty much an Ansel Adams shot you got there.
Appears it was dropped there by a dog. Figures. Looks like he also dropped something else.
Was gonna say something about that, but I didn’t want to shitpost.
Evidence that a school of sea gourds had been in the area and dropped some scales.
Not pictured is a pot I’ll put tomatoes in next summer.
A few other finds. Swim goggles, a binky,
tools and a perfectly good Kit Kat. I hear salty chocolate is tasty.
SF
Not pictured is a pot I’ll put tomatoes in next summer.
A few other finds. Swim goggles, a binky,
tools and a perfectly good Kit Kat. I hear salty chocolate is tasty.
SF
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So...you wanna sell that Kit Kat?
BriGuy
Life of the Party
Espresso bong?
That’s my kiddo’s favorite brand/configuration of pacifier. Picking pacifiers is actually a lot like picking a fly. They do have a preference, and it can change without warning.
Remember when that Russian Space Station Mir was always breaking down and every week they had some new Macguyver like solution to it with like a neverending saga of chewing gum, duct-tape and gumption holding the whole unit together? .... Well that panel looks like it might be from Mir
from the wikipedia on MIR
Ageing systems and atmosphere[edit]
In the later years of the programme, particularly during the Shuttle-Mir programme, Mir suffered from various systems failures. It had been designed for five years of use, but eventually flew for fifteen, and in the 1990s was showing its age, with frequent computer crashes, loss of power, uncontrolled tumbles through space and leaking pipes. Jerry Linenger in his book about his time on the facility says that the cooling system had developed tiny leaks too small and numerous to be repaired, that permitted the constant release of coolant. He says that it was especially noticeable after he had made a spacewalk and become used to the bottled air in his spacesuit. When he returned to the station and again began breathing the air inside Mir, he was shocked by the intensity of the smell and worried about the possible negative health effects of breathing such contaminated air.[37][page needed]Various breakdowns of the Elektron oxygen-generating system were a concern; they led crews to become increasingly reliant on the backup Vika solid-fuel oxygen generator (SFOG) systems, which led to a fire during the handover between EO-22 and EO-23.[17][22][page needed] (see also ISS ECLSS)
Accidents[edit]
A charred panel in Kvant-1 following the Vika fireSeveral accidents occurred which threatened the station's safety, such as the glancing collision between Kristall and Soyuz TM-17 during proximity operations in January 1994. The three most alarming incidents occurred during EO-23. The first was on 23 February 1997 during the handover period from EO-22 to EO-23, when a malfunction occurred in the backup Vika system, a chemical oxygen generator later known as solid-fuel oxygen generator (SFOG). The Vika malfunction led to a fire which burned for around 90 seconds (according to official sources at the TsUP; astronaut Jerry Linenger insists the fire burned for around 14 minutes), and produced large amounts of toxic smoke that filled the station for around 45 minutes. This forced the crew to don respirators, but some of the respirator masks initially worn were broken. Some of the fire extinguishers mounted on the walls of the newer modules were immovable.[22][page needed][37][page needed]
Picture of the damage caused by the collision with Progress M-34. Picture was taken by Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS 86The other two accidents concerned testing of the station's TORU manual docking system to manually dock Progress M-33 and Progress M-34. The tests were to gauge the performance of long-distance docking and the feasibility of removal of the expensive Kurs automatic docking system from Progress spacecraft. Due to malfunctioning equipment, both tests failed, with Progress M-33 narrowly missing the station and Progress M-34 striking Spektr and puncturing the module, causing the station to depressurise and leading to Spektr being permanently sealed off. This in turn led to a power crisis aboard Mir as the module's solar arrays produced a large proportion of the station's electrical supply, causing the station to power down and begin to drift, requiring weeks of work to rectify before work could continue as normal.[17][22][page needed]
While we're adrift of terrestrial matters and Puget sound beaches; I spotted this on my way to work last week. It's within a few miles of tidewater, on SR 509 just north of Burien, so almost qualifies. I've seen these parked off the highway three times in the last five years or so and wondered what was going on. Are they headed for final assembly somewhere local?
Remember when that Russian Space Station Mir was always breaking down and every week they had some new Macguyver like solution to it with like a neverending saga of chewing gum, duct-tape and gumption holding the whole unit together? .... Well that panel looks like it might be from Mir
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You just know that they were cranking up the Gorky Park on the Mir stereo.
Pretty sure it's part of this device
for playing this
for playing this
Is the thing in the blue shrink wrap a really big sturgeon?
Orca