[Texascavers] caver/Indiana Bats in the news

2009-12-09 Thread David
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/federal-court-rules-massive-wind-energy-project-in-violation-of-endangered-species-act-78886682.html I presume this is the same Dave Cowan that is active in the Southeastern Cave Conservancy. -

Re: [Texascavers] Water Drops at 2000 fps

2009-12-09 Thread Robert Tait
That is pretty slick. I do high speed stills, but it would never capture the surface tension effects. They did a nice job of adding wet sounds to go along with the droplet effects. :) Thanks! Rob, from upstate NY On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Pete Lindsley wrote: > As you watch this water

[Texascavers] Water Drops at 2000 fps

2009-12-09 Thread Pete Lindsley
As you watch this water drop video think about what happens in a cave... http://www.flixxy.com/water-drop.htm

[Texascavers] Re: Global Mapper

2009-12-09 Thread Mark Minton
Several people have written that they were unable to get to the Global Mapper web site. I tried it again and it came up, but when I refreshed the page I got a notice that it was not currently available, so I guess my apparent success the last couple of days was indeed because it was in

texascavers Digest 9 Dec 2009 20:32:53 -0000 Issue 907

2009-12-09 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 9 Dec 2009 20:32:53 - Issue 907 Topics (messages 12845 through 12863): Re: Mapping and Mexico 12845 by: Matt Turner Re: Public domain free USGS News rmaps 12846 by: caverarch.aol.com Re: Mexico Maps 12847 by: Mark Minton 12848 by: caverarc

Re: [Texascavers] Re: Global Mapper

2009-12-09 Thread Terry Holsinger
Same here, and when going to the Googled search link it also go there. It may be they got hacked and Mark has not refreshed the website on his machine. A quick look for whois notes for the domain www.globalmapper.com shows that the domain owner info was updated on the Dec 9th from it's old owne

Re: [Texascavers] Re: Global Mapper

2009-12-09 Thread vivbone
this gets weirder and weirder. When I click Mark's globalmapper link it takes me to this security web site: http://sec-center.com/ When I type in the address by hand I get the same thing. -Vivian -- Original message from Mark Minton : -- > Pete Lindsley sa

[Texascavers] RE: Mexico Maps

2009-12-09 Thread Mark Minton
Louise Power said: >The state maps are topo maps. Well, yes, they have contour lines on them, but not at any useful scale. They are nothing like real topo maps (1:50,000 for Mexico). You could hardly use the online maps to look for cave leads or plan a hike. They are designed for d

[Texascavers] Old time Florida cave diver passes on..

2009-12-09 Thread tbsamsel
A retired co-worker (a geochemist) from the USGS office in Richmond, VA died last week and he was an old time Florida cave diver.. know of any cave divers who might might be able to post this Richmond obit in the proper place? His name is Larry Briel and he was from back in the 1960s. http://w

[Texascavers] Re: Global Mapper

2009-12-09 Thread Mark Minton
Pete Lindsley said: >The Global Mapper link in Mark's note apparently today is a redirect to something else, which looks suspiciously like an "eastern" web site. A few hours later it just gave an error "Internal Server Error" http://www.sec-center.com/vb/ leads to: something else.