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by Michael
Thu May 09, 2024 1:28 am
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Chat
Replies: 2617
Views: 267647

Re: Chat

Saving stranded Orcas with whale songs.

How broadcasting the familiar calls of female killer whales saved two males from starvation in an isolated Alaska lagoon.
by Michael
Wed May 08, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Chat
Replies: 2617
Views: 267647

Re: Chat

Happy Birthday, d0cent!
by Michael
Wed May 08, 2024 5:50 am
Forum: USS Yantic
Topic: Yantic (1869): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
Replies: 2
Views: 416

Re: Yantic (1869): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

27 January
Port au Prince, Haiti
An Eclipse of the moon was observed from about 8:30 to 10 P.M.
by Michael
Wed May 08, 2024 5:48 am
Forum: Old Weather news and results and related science news
Topic: Natural Phenomena
Replies: 123
Views: 52268

Re: Natural Phenomena

27 January 1869
Port au Prince, Haiti
An Eclipse of the moon was observed from about 8:30 to 10 P.M.
by Michael
Tue May 07, 2024 10:13 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Chat
Replies: 2617
Views: 267647

Re: Chat

Here's a visualization of flying into a black hole from NASA. It's very interesting.
by Michael
Tue May 07, 2024 5:25 am
Forum: USS Yantic
Topic: Yantic (1876): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
Replies: 7
Views: 475

Re: Yantic (1876): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

The OW Tools post is very helpful. It lists the tools on the tools website. You will find the Find Place tool very useful.
by Michael
Tue May 07, 2024 5:19 am
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: This week's fun lines, sayings or quotes.
Replies: 75
Views: 9421

Re: This week's fun lines, sayings or quotes.

Internet problems here. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I came back here sometime after I thought I submitted the post, just to see that the form was still open, so I clicked Submit again. :roll: In the meantime, I'll go back to watching the little blue circle carry on spinning round an...
by Michael
Tue May 07, 2024 4:40 am
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: This week's fun lines, sayings or quotes.
Replies: 75
Views: 9421

Re: This week's fun lines, sayings or quotes.

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty told Alice, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

I read this this morning, and I thought it was so appropriate for this in which we are living.
by Michael
Mon May 06, 2024 10:50 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: This week's fun lines, sayings or quotes.
Replies: 75
Views: 9421

Re: This week's fun lines, sayings or quotes.

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty told Alice, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

I read this this morning, and I thought it was so appropriate for this in which we are living.
by Michael
Thu May 02, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: USS Yantic
Topic: Yantic (1866): links, questions, comments, coordination, ... NONSTANDARD
Replies: 2
Views: 312

Re: Yantic (1866): links, questions, comments, coordination, ... NONSTANDARD

16 November
Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia

1130 A. M.
Turned the ship over to the authorities of the Yard by order of Rear Adm S. C. Rowan. Hauled down the Ensign and Pennant.
by Michael
Thu May 02, 2024 1:14 am
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Chat
Replies: 2617
Views: 267647

Re: Chat

We had 65 mm as of 9 AM yesterday. The Gosford weather station stopped reporting rain and temperatures, but Norah Head has 40 up to 8 AM this morning. Who needs a pool. We have a backyard.
by Michael
Wed May 01, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
Topic: Navy miscellany
Replies: 140
Views: 957

Re: Navy miscellany

:D :D :D

Thanks! It was all the experience from winning the Civil War twice. Once on Shenandoah, and again on Yantic. :lol: :lol: :lol:
by Michael
Wed May 01, 2024 6:21 pm
Forum: USS Kearsarge
Topic: Kearsarge (1891): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
Replies: 8
Views: 693

Re: Kearsarge (1891): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

Preserve YES!!! Good eyes! Having the e's written with a shape like a cursive E not e that fooled me. Christine and I struggled with it, and I even showed her how some e's were written like a cursive E in other words, but I never put 2 and 2 together to see that's how they were written in this word....
by Michael
Wed May 01, 2024 7:35 am
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Chat
Replies: 2617
Views: 267647

Re: Chat

Stuart, you said to bring my swimmers. You should have said to bring a wet suit, or a diving suit! :shock: :shock: :shock:

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