[Texascavers] National Geographic - Naica Cave program and videos :

2010-10-01 Thread JerryAtkin
Crystal Cave at Naica, Mexico Explorers discover some of the largest mineral crystals ever seen. Videos provided by National Geographic in promotion of their _Into the Lost Crystal Caves_ (http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/into-the-lost-crystal-caves-4636/Overview) program

[Texascavers] bats in the news

2010-10-01 Thread David
Not necessarily cave related: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007595 So do cave bats exhibit this kind of behavior? The scientist received an Nobel Award for this - Visit our website:

[Texascavers] Casa Aquismon

2010-10-01 Thread Mike Walsh
Casa http://www.forums.caves.org/viewtopic.php?f=16t=10663#p90793 Aquismon, S.L.P. Mexico My house in Aquismon, S.L.P. Mexico is ready for cavers. The house is located approximately 400 meters from the Plaza and about one hour from such great sotanos as Sotano de las Golondrinas. In addition

[Texascavers] Shooting on Mex side of Falcon Lake

2010-10-01 Thread Louise Power
Sheriff: Pirates shoot U.S. man in Mexican waters Tourist is shot in the back of the head after being ambushed By PAUL J. WEBER The Associated Press updated 9/30/2010 8:51:30 PM ET SAN ANTONIO — An American tourist was shot in the back of the head in Mexican waters on

texascavers Digest 1 Oct 2010 16:35:14 -0000 Issue 1160

2010-10-01 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 1 Oct 2010 16:35:14 - Issue 1160 Topics (messages 16192 through 16208): Re: Way off topic - but of interest to REAL explorers 16192 by: Josh Rubinstein 16193 by: speleosteele.tx.rr.com off topic: ant books 16194 by: Mixon Bill 16196 by:

[Texascavers] bats in the news

2010-10-01 Thread Mixon Bill
That's old news. And, David, I expect you mean an Ignobel Award. -- Mixon A chicken is the egg's way of making another egg. You may reply to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save:

Re: [Texascavers] bats in the news

2010-10-01 Thread David
Correction to last post: I felt something sounded odd about the article claiming the bat scientist won the Nobel Award, but I didn't look into it. I didn't know that there was a parody award with a similar name. I knew it wasn't the Nobel Prize, and presumed the Nobel committee had other types

[Texascavers] E O Wilson

2010-10-01 Thread BMorgan994
I remember when Wilson was highly controversial because of his sociobiology hypothesis. At the campus commie level he was accused of being a Nazi, whereas among PC scientists, and especially sociologists and psychologists who aren't even real scientists, he was accused of biological

[Texascavers] New Guinea people shots from a '75 caving trip

2010-10-01 Thread Frank Binney
Not caving pictures, but some interesting BW portraits of local people taken when I participated in the Royal Geographic Society's 1975 British Speleological Expedition to the headwaters of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. Andy Eavis, who many of you met at ICS last year, was co-leader of the

[Texascavers] Southwester Region Winter Tech Call for Papers Photos

2010-10-01 Thread Carol Belski
CALL FOR PAPERS SOUTHWESTERN REGION, NSS WINTER TECHNICAL REGIONAL DECEMBER 4, 2010 CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO hosted by White Sands Grotto Pecos Valley Grotto Calling for reports on all expedition, exploration, research, and other speleological exploits, especially (but not limited to) those in