Literal Odds and Ends

[Okeefenokee]

i was watching cartoons. it's spring break. i drove around the olympic village area today. nice looking alpine town. shame there isn't a single good place to eat in the whole place.

There is an olympic village in Texas?

I'm in the mormon territory.

[TheReal_ND]

Find out how much your mom drank when you were a fetus. Take the color blind test.
http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/

[Speaker to Animals]

My vision has always been perfect. I saw all the numbers, and the ones that had no numbers. My vision is 20/10 as well. Master race.

[TheReal_ND]

Overcompensating much?

[Okeefenokee]

Went to the Bonneville Salt Flats. Looked like you'd expect. Still cool.

[de officiis]

Here's some good news for ya'll...

The depressing scene of boat docks sitting high and dry on wide beaches around Lake Tahoe will likely be a fleeting memory this summer.

Winter's unrelenting storms built up a substantial Sierra snowpack and are expected to fill the lake for the first time in 11 years.

Many low-lying areas that were exposed when the lake level was declining during the drought will be inundated with water. The docks will be bobbing in crystal blue waters once again.

Straddling the California–Nevada border, Tahoe is the sixth largest lake in the United States, an outdoor playground for people around the world, and the main water source for the Reno-Sparks, Nevada, area. The renowned ecological wonder is fed by 63 tributaries that drain 505 square miles known as the Lake Tahoe Watershed. With a vast surface area of 191 square miles, Tahoe requires an immense amount of water to fill, especially because roughly 100 billion gallons of water evaporates annually.

Lake Tahoe's natural rim is at 6,223 feet above sea level. The lake can store an additional 6.1 feet in its reservoir and climbs up to 6,229 feet at full capacity, its legal maximum limit. The only outlet, a dam at Tahoe City, regulates the upper 6.1 feet above the low water mark, and this winter water is being released into the Truckee River as billions of gallons flow into the lake.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lake ... 007117.php

[TheReal_ND]

https://archive.fo/sVhIF

[de officiis]

The North Dakota Department of Emergency Services said last week that 21.48 million pounds of trash, debris and waste was ultimately removed from the three protest camps built on federal land — Oceti Sakowin, Rosebud and Sacred Stone — based on figures from Morton County Emergency Management.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/ ... ed-downwa/

"Sacred" land...?

[Speaker to Animals]

The North Dakota Department of Emergency Services said last week that 21.48 million pounds of trash, debris and waste was ultimately removed from the three protest camps built on federal land — Oceti Sakowin, Rosebud and Sacred Stone — based on figures from Morton County Emergency Management.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/ ... ed-downwa/

"Sacred" land...?

Just call it art and you can get an NEA grant for it.

[Okeefenokee]

The North Dakota Department of Emergency Services said last week that 21.48 million pounds of trash, debris and waste was ultimately removed from the three protest camps built on federal land — Oceti Sakowin, Rosebud and Sacred Stone — based on figures from Morton County Emergency Management.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/ ... ed-downwa/

"Sacred" land...?

Just call it art and you can get an NEA grant for it.

That is a lot of trash.

The Space Shuttle weighed 165,000 pounds empty. Its external tank weighed 78,100 pounds empty and its two solid rocket boosters weighed 185,000 pounds empty each. Each solid rocket booster held 1.1 million pounds of fuel. The external tank held 143,000 gallons of liquid oxygen (1,359,000 pounds) and 383,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen (226,000 pounds). The fuel weighed almost 20 times more than the Shuttle. At launch, the Shuttle, external tank, solid rocket boosters and all the fuel combined had a total weight of 4.4 million pounds. The Shuttle could also carry a 65,000 payload.
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/ ... tle-weigh-