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#51
The Tailgate / Re: Mountain Men
Last post by Hawks Feather - November 09, 2024, 08:31:48 AMQuote from: 1snafu on November 09, 2024, 03:37:10 AMSpeaking of the Holiday Inn mindset. I've watched most episodes of Dr. Marcus Welby MD. So I'm now a self anointed pretend OBGYN expert. I'm perfectly willing to give FREE pelvic exams. To beautiful single women (ONLY).
I think you are correct.
#52
The Tailgate / Re: Mountain Men
Last post by 1snafu - November 09, 2024, 03:37:10 AMSpeaking of the Holiday Inn mindset. I've watched most episodes of Dr. Marcus Welby MD. So I'm now a self anointed pretend OBGYN expert. I'm perfectly willing to give FREE pelvic exams. To beautiful single women (ONLY).
#53
The Tailgate / Re: Mountain Men
Last post by Hawks Feather - November 08, 2024, 08:38:00 PMKilling it makes the most sense to me to not have it return. I think Jake normally runs them about 10 miles into the hills, but still (to me) a bullet makes more sense.
I have only see a few lions in the wild while on vacation which doesn't make me an expert. But I did spend a night in a Holiday Inn Express. . . . .
I have only see a few lions in the wild while on vacation which doesn't make me an expert. But I did spend a night in a Holiday Inn Express. . . . .
#54
In The News / Re: It's like the night before...
Last post by nastygunz - November 08, 2024, 04:14:39 PMTulsi Gabbard is a hotty
#55
The Tailgate / Today in history 11-8
Last post by remrogers - November 08, 2024, 09:34:54 AM1895
Nov 8
German scientist discovers X‑rays
On November 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible.
Röntgen's discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow X-rays because of their unknown nature.
X-rays are electromagnetic energy waves that act similarly to light rays, but at wavelengths approximately 1,000 times shorter than those of light. Röntgen holed up in his lab and conducted a series of experiments to better understand his discovery. He learned that X-rays penetrate human flesh but not higher-density substances such as bone or lead and that they can be photographed.
Röntgen's discovery was labeled a medical miracle and X-rays soon became an important diagnostic tool in medicine, allowing doctors to see inside the human body for the first time without surgery. In 1897, X-rays were first used on a military battlefield, during the Balkan War, to find bullets and broken bones inside patients.
Scientists were quick to realize the benefits of X-rays, but slower to comprehend the harmful effects of radiation. Initially, it was believed X-rays passed through flesh as harmlessly as light. However, within several years, researchers began to report cases of burns and skin damage after exposure to X-rays, and in 1904, Thomas Edison's assistant, Clarence Dally, who had worked extensively with X-rays, died of skin cancer. Dally's death caused some scientists to begin taking the risks of radiation more seriously, but they still weren't fully understood.
During the 1930s, 40s and 50s, in fact, many American shoe stores featured shoe-fitting fluoroscopes that used X-rays to enable customers to see the bones in their feet; it wasn't until the 1950s that this practice was determined to be risky business.
Wilhelm Röntgen received numerous accolades for his work, including the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901, yet he remained modest and never tried to patent his discovery. Today, X-ray technology is widely used in medicine, material analysis and devices such as airport security scanners.
Nov 8
German scientist discovers X‑rays
On November 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible.
Röntgen's discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow X-rays because of their unknown nature.
X-rays are electromagnetic energy waves that act similarly to light rays, but at wavelengths approximately 1,000 times shorter than those of light. Röntgen holed up in his lab and conducted a series of experiments to better understand his discovery. He learned that X-rays penetrate human flesh but not higher-density substances such as bone or lead and that they can be photographed.
Röntgen's discovery was labeled a medical miracle and X-rays soon became an important diagnostic tool in medicine, allowing doctors to see inside the human body for the first time without surgery. In 1897, X-rays were first used on a military battlefield, during the Balkan War, to find bullets and broken bones inside patients.
Scientists were quick to realize the benefits of X-rays, but slower to comprehend the harmful effects of radiation. Initially, it was believed X-rays passed through flesh as harmlessly as light. However, within several years, researchers began to report cases of burns and skin damage after exposure to X-rays, and in 1904, Thomas Edison's assistant, Clarence Dally, who had worked extensively with X-rays, died of skin cancer. Dally's death caused some scientists to begin taking the risks of radiation more seriously, but they still weren't fully understood.
During the 1930s, 40s and 50s, in fact, many American shoe stores featured shoe-fitting fluoroscopes that used X-rays to enable customers to see the bones in their feet; it wasn't until the 1950s that this practice was determined to be risky business.
Wilhelm Röntgen received numerous accolades for his work, including the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901, yet he remained modest and never tried to patent his discovery. Today, X-ray technology is widely used in medicine, material analysis and devices such as airport security scanners.
#56
In The News / Re: It's like the night before...
Last post by Okanagan - November 08, 2024, 08:54:18 AMQuote from: pitw on November 06, 2024, 12:22:04 PMI find it soooooo hard to believe that those were the best 2 people for the job.
Personally I couldn't vote for either.
You are right, of course, and not for the first time in election history here, though it is getting worse. I said in 2016 that we had the worst choice between presidential candiates in history. One was a clown and the other was a crook (Hillary Clinton). I held my nose and voted for Trump-- and he turned out to be the best president in my lifetime, which started with Harry Truman.
I still roll my eyes when he exxagerates, don't think I would likely find him a friend -- but he knows how to president! I like his policies, dislike the official Democratic policies, and whether I like him is irrelevant. I don't think that I would have personally liked George Patton, Erwin Rommel nor Stone Wall Jackson but if we got in a war I'd want them on my side.
#57
The Tailgate / Re: Mountain Men
Last post by Okanagan - November 08, 2024, 08:44:50 AMQuote from: 1snafu on November 08, 2024, 06:03:12 AMThe guy with lion hounds, amuses me. He claimed numerous times. He uses his hounds to run lions back up into the mountains off of the rancher's land. Like that is going to work on a territorial lion. Laughable imo. That is likened to something running you out of your house. Like you won't be back. HELLO!
I'm no expert but think you are right, based on a few experiences of lions coming back immediately after being run off, either off a kill or off a location.
The most striking to me is a lion that moved into my cousin's yard in the edge of a small town in Washington. I posted about here. It slept on the limb of a big cedar tree in their yard, where his 5 year old grandson usually played, and they saw it several times. A warden came out with a hound man and they ran it half a mile or more up the mountain, though the hound man would not take his dogs off a a leash.
They said that they had scared it enough that it would not come back. It was back before dark. My cousin phoned the warden, whom he knew, and told him that law or no law he was going to shooot it the next time he saw it. The warden and hound man came back the next morning, treed it within 100 yards or so of the house, and killed it.
#58
The Tailgate / Re: Mountain Men
Last post by 1snafu - November 08, 2024, 06:03:12 AMThe guy with lion hounds, amuses me. He claimed numerous times. He uses his hounds to run lions back up into the mountains off of the rancher's land. Like that is going to work on a territorial lion. Laughable imo. That is likened to something running you out of your house. Like you won't be back. HELLO!
#59
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Fries?
Last post by nastygunz - November 07, 2024, 12:51:26 PMSome of those cities need to be burned down
#60
The Tailgate / Today in history 11-7
Last post by remrogers - November 07, 2024, 09:32:33 AM1980
Nov 7
"King of Cool" Steve McQueen dies
On November 7, 1980, the actor Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood's leading men of the 1960s and 1970s and the star of such action thrillers as Bullitt and The Great Escape, dies at the age of 50 in Mexico, where he was undergoing an experimental treatment for cancer. In 1979, McQueen had been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a type of cancer often related to asbestos exposure. It was later believed that the ruggedly handsome actor, who had an affinity for fast cars and motorcycles, might have been exposed to asbestos by wearing racing suits.
Terrence Steven McQueen was born on March 24, 1930, in Beech Grove, Indiana. After a troubled youth that included time in reform school, McQueen served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the late 1940s. He then studied acting and began competing in motorcycle races. He made his big-screen debut with a tiny role in 1956's Somebody Up There Likes Me, starring Paul Newman. McQueen went on to appear in the camp classic The Blob (1958) and gained fame playing a bounty hunter in the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive, which originally aired on CBS from 1958 to 1961.
During the 1960s, McQueen built a reputation for playing cool, loner heroes in a list of films that included the Western The Magnificent Seven (1960), which was directed by John Sturges and also featured Yul Brynner and Charles Bronson; The Great Escape (1963), in which McQueen played a U.S. solider in World War II who makes a daring motorcycle escape from a German prison camp; and The Sand Pebbles (1966), a war epic for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. McQueen played a detective in one of his most popular movies, 1968's Bullitt, which featured a spectacular car chase through the streets of San Francisco. That same year, the actor portrayed an elegant thief in The Thomas Crown Affair.
In the 1970s, McQueen was one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors and starred in hit films such as director Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway (1972) with Ali MacGraw, to whom McQueen was married from 1973 to 1978; Papillon (1973), with Dustin Hoffman; and The Towering Inferno (1974), with Paul Newman, William Holden and Faye Dunaway.
In the summer of 1980, McQueen traveled to Rosarito Beach, Mexico, where he underwent an unorthodox cancer treatment that involved, among other things, coffee enemas and a therapy derived from apricot pits. On November 6, 1980, he had surgery to remove cancerous masses from his body; he died the following day. His final films were Tom Horn and The Hunter, both of which were released in 1980.
Nov 7
"King of Cool" Steve McQueen dies
On November 7, 1980, the actor Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood's leading men of the 1960s and 1970s and the star of such action thrillers as Bullitt and The Great Escape, dies at the age of 50 in Mexico, where he was undergoing an experimental treatment for cancer. In 1979, McQueen had been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a type of cancer often related to asbestos exposure. It was later believed that the ruggedly handsome actor, who had an affinity for fast cars and motorcycles, might have been exposed to asbestos by wearing racing suits.
Terrence Steven McQueen was born on March 24, 1930, in Beech Grove, Indiana. After a troubled youth that included time in reform school, McQueen served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the late 1940s. He then studied acting and began competing in motorcycle races. He made his big-screen debut with a tiny role in 1956's Somebody Up There Likes Me, starring Paul Newman. McQueen went on to appear in the camp classic The Blob (1958) and gained fame playing a bounty hunter in the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive, which originally aired on CBS from 1958 to 1961.
During the 1960s, McQueen built a reputation for playing cool, loner heroes in a list of films that included the Western The Magnificent Seven (1960), which was directed by John Sturges and also featured Yul Brynner and Charles Bronson; The Great Escape (1963), in which McQueen played a U.S. solider in World War II who makes a daring motorcycle escape from a German prison camp; and The Sand Pebbles (1966), a war epic for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. McQueen played a detective in one of his most popular movies, 1968's Bullitt, which featured a spectacular car chase through the streets of San Francisco. That same year, the actor portrayed an elegant thief in The Thomas Crown Affair.
In the 1970s, McQueen was one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors and starred in hit films such as director Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway (1972) with Ali MacGraw, to whom McQueen was married from 1973 to 1978; Papillon (1973), with Dustin Hoffman; and The Towering Inferno (1974), with Paul Newman, William Holden and Faye Dunaway.
In the summer of 1980, McQueen traveled to Rosarito Beach, Mexico, where he underwent an unorthodox cancer treatment that involved, among other things, coffee enemas and a therapy derived from apricot pits. On November 6, 1980, he had surgery to remove cancerous masses from his body; he died the following day. His final films were Tom Horn and The Hunter, both of which were released in 1980.