[Texascavers] Article on Pyrenees cave art..

2008-06-23 Thread Ted Samsel
In the June 23rd New Yorker.. an abstract.. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_thurman T. http://home.infionline.net/~tbsamsel/ - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[Texascavers] Paging Bill Mixon

2008-06-23 Thread keith heuss
Paging Bill Mixon, send me an email on the email name you prefer to use. Keith

[ot_caving] off-topic - history related - WW 1

2008-06-23 Thread David
This post is for the history buffs out there. Have you ever heard of the Zimmerman Telegram? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/zimmermann/ http://modern-us-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_zimmerman_telegram_wwi I don't

[Texascavers] a new speleology web site

2008-06-23 Thread David
The link below should connect to a new Speleology category on the WikiAnswers http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/4337 This sub-category under Earth Science was created on on 06-20-08. The general audience of this site will be mostly teenagers and young college students. It will have an

[Texascavers] Secret of the Cave - DVD review

2008-06-23 Thread David
This is a low budget Irish movie. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QhyBveVhL._SS500_.jpg The cave scene in the movie lasted about 10 seconds and it was too dark to see the passage walls. Some of the cave scene was filmed in southern Tennessee or Northern Alabama? Collegedale,

[ot_caving] Hemi-hybrid

2008-06-23 Thread David
Chrysler plans to release a hemi-engine with a hybrid powerplant The label on the side of their cars will look like this: http://www.auto123.com/ArtImages/98643/main.jpg The Aspen SUV is supposed to be one of the first, if not the Dodge Durango.

[ot_caving] Sports bra helps rescue U.S. girl trapped in Alps

2008-06-23 Thread Louise Power
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25333829/?GT1=43001

[ot_caving] computer news

2008-06-23 Thread David
you can now purchase a USB stick with 64 Gb. It cost around $ 4,000.( I think ) Fry's has a 32 Gb for only $ 240. - Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: ot-unsubscr...@texascavers.com

[Texascavers] Caver Photo names

2008-06-23 Thread Rick Corbell
All, It ain't Mark's fault that I didn't identify Becky Jones and Bob Cowell properly when sending the pics of the Spring thing in Kerrville. I'll be more careful in the future. Heck, how'd I know they'd be printable?? Becky you kinda look like a Betty I used to know. Bob, well, after

[Texascavers] Caver Photo names

2008-06-23 Thread Rick Corbell
All, It ain't Mark's fault that I didn't identify Becky Jones and Bob Cowell properly when sending the pics of the Spring thing in Kerrville. I'll be more careful in the future. Heck, how'd I know they'd be printable?? Becky you kinda look like a Betty I used to know. Bob, well, after

RE: [ot_caving] an option to drilling

2008-06-23 Thread Louise Power
Very interesting. I knew that we don't make hydrogen, but that's the term the media uses when reporting it. Heard a couple of interesting stories on the news this weekend and this morning. One was on the wind farms in West Texas. Apparently a lot of ranchers are leasing their land to the

Re: [ot_caving] an option to drilling

2008-06-23 Thread quinta
their neighbors when they allowed the government to erect hundreds and hundreds of wind machines as far as they eye could see. His point was that he thought this is a fad industry which would fall by the wayside and, when wind power was no longer useful, there would be all those machines

RE: [ot_caving] an option to drilling

2008-06-23 Thread RD Milhollin
_ From: Louise Power [mailto:power_lou...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 11:05 AM To: Don Cooper Cc: qui...@clearwire.net; Fritz Holt; o...@texascavers.com Subject: RE: [ot_caving] an option to drilling Heard a couple of interesting stories on the news this weekend and

RE: [ot_caving] an option to drilling

2008-06-23 Thread Louise Power
I'm sorry, I mis-spoke. It is the power companies funding these. Here's the info. It was on CBS Sunday Morning: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/02/sunday/main3563344.shtml Sorry for the confusion.Louise From: rdmilhollin@charter.netTo: power_lou...@hotmail.com;

Re: [ot_caving] an option to drilling

2008-06-23 Thread Don Cooper
Interesting concept. Out west - southwest of Houston, out in the sprawling farmland is a Children's Home which was given a large wind-turbine many years ago. It's long since fallen into disrepair and no longer actually generates power. It hasn't in years. But it's still turning. My brother

RE: [ot_caving] an option to drilling

2008-06-23 Thread RD Milhollin
I am dumbfounded by the reaction in and around Erath County to the prospect of a potential wind farm development between Lingleville and Gorman. My family's ranch is out there and I spent a lot of time there growing up. I can tell you that ranching is a very iffy prospect, a dry year can spell