Re: [Texascavers] wind on Mars

Yet - what is the effect of 50mph winds if you've got a density altitude of more than 100,000ft (i.e. in earth measures)? Interesting though. I think that's why NASA built that solar powered aircraft that fell apart off the coast of Hawaii - testing the practicality of a relatively slow plane in

[Texascavers] OT - Pecan wood for BBQ smokers (Austin area)...

Austin Cavers, I am cutting up a large-ish pecan tree that fell over in my back yard at the w/e. If anyone would like to have some wood for their BBQ smoker then please email me off-line. Briber collects :-) though I can probably bring a limited amount to the next UT Grotto meeting. Cheers, Stefa

Re: [Texascavers] wind on Mars

The recent book "The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourists's Guide' by Neil Comins is an interesting and easy read. Most chapters start with "Journal Entries" of some future space worker that sound an awful lot like postings on this mailing list. ( http://www.amazon.com/Hazards-Space-Travel-Touris

Re: [Texascavers] RE: "finalizing" CDs

It's not so much the software, but the actual drives. It wasn't too long ago that drives were often labled "multi-session capable" as the latest feature. There is quite a bit of difference between optical drives now in use. Unless you stick to a plain vanilla feature set, you're bound to run int

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Self-cleaning Outhouses

Yeah, I've used those, they are interesting! And it reminded me of a hiking trip I took with some friends. We found this very friendly, intelligent and nice dog, he decided we were cool and hung out with us for most of the trip. He was protective of us when he saw other people, when he saw catt

RE: [Texascavers] RE: Self-cleaning Outhouses

Anyone for pork? _ From: Minton, Mark [mailto:mmin...@nmhu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:17 PM To: Texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] RE: Self-cleaning Outhouses Sleazeweasel's excellent description of a Belizean outhouse over a lagoon reminds me of t

[Texascavers] RE: Self-cleaning Outhouses

Sleazeweasel's excellent description of a Belizean outhouse over a lagoon reminds me of the pristine-looking outhouses we encountered at Joya de Salas in the Sierra de Guatemala in Mexico in the late '70s. When we arrived in the village and saw these outhouses sitting over the bare karst

RE: [Texascavers] RE: "finalizing" CDs

No, it's not just a Nero problem. Here at my office, we use Sonic for burning CDs. After you format it and put your files on, there is a reminder on the window which says, "Click Make Compatible* to share your written disc with friends."  However, since everyone on our LAN uses the same software to

Re: [Texascavers] faulty thumb drives

Volume probably has a lot do with it. Those flash chips seem to be in everything.

[Texascavers] RE: "finalizing" CDs

Bill Mixon said: >I've sent CDs I've written that way to lots of places (a printer, another >caver, etc.), with no complaints about them being unreadable. Interesting, as my experience has been just the opposite. I couldn't even open a multi-session CD I made on a different compute

[Texascavers] What lurks in the dark II

What lurks in the dark II: My apologies to anyone who has previously read this on TAGnet. It was well received, and it does have something to do with bats and caves, so I have here posted an updated version: Susan from Reston was kind enough to post a link on TAGnet to an article about t

[Texascavers] faulty thumb drives

The computer thinks a thumb drive is a removable disk with a FAT-32 file system on it. If the circuitry in the drive that imitates a disk fails, of course it's pretty hopeless to get anything off of it. But if some of the data storage space fails, it is possible to recover other data using the usua

[Texascavers] "finalizing" CDs

Minton's comment that unfinalized CDs can't be read on any computer other than the one that wrote them is at best an oversimplification. I make archive CDs by simply using Windows XP's ability to copy files to a CD. That creates "multi-session" CDs to which additional files can be added later. Ther

[Texascavers] RE: wind on Mars

Ediger and others pointed out: >In fact there is much wind on Mars. I stand corrected. I thought the thin atmosphere would not produce much wind, but obviously it does. Thanks! Mark Minton

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Close Up of Mars Pit

All Right, Cavers, here's something you can do. Assuming this is a hole punched into a lava tube or cavern on Mars, try to find some similar pictures on Google Earth. Remember the current longest lava tube (and also deepest)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazumura_Cave http://www.caves.org/pub

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Close Up of Mars Pit

David Locklear wrote: I haven't seen the detailed photo he described. David, take a look at some of the internet links to learn more. Think lava tube caves, not gypsum or limestone. And, yes, there is wind on Mars. Take a look here at a dust devil:

[Texascavers] Post-convention survey opportunity

All: The Illinois Speleological Survey (ISS) is pleased to announce an opportunity for cave survey, caver-camaraderie and volunteer work rolled into one. The ISS works with the Shawnee National Forest (SNF) to conduct an inventory of karst features within the holdings of the SNF. The ISS has made

[Texascavers] websites Mars Pit

The website mentioned below will probably get one to the websites I mentioned in my previous message. Both of them work at or for or are connected with this place. --GE -- Original message -- From: Don Arburn The website is > actually pretty cool. Used the fir

[Texascavers] wind on Mars

In fact there is much wind on Mars. A quick quotation from William Hartmann in _A Traveler's Guide to Mars_ : "Despite the harsh conditions, the trackless landscape is much more inviting than that of the Moon. A visitor on Mars is greeted by vistas of rocks and hills, sand dunes and lava flows

Re: [Texascavers] a border crossing ordeal

So, due to events beyond my control I had to buy 2 expensive plane? tickets for my? family to fly to Monterrey. ( that was not in my budget ).? "due to events beyond my control", David I think those pshyco analysts call that denial, or perhaps it's something about not taking responsibility fo

Re: [Texascavers] Cool, Cool,

The thing that actually turned me on to was the photo of the water drop. Back in the '60s or so Kunath & Lindsey and another one or two cave photographers took pictures of some water drops just free from a soda straw--refractions inverted, of course. Then a few slides farther on there was a pict