[Texascavers] Speaking of Coupons [NOW You're on the Trolley!]

2008-01-04 Thread Don Cooper
household that applies and at taxpayer expense. As a bona-fide tax payer, I'm calling for my two now! -- *From:* Don Cooper [mailto:wavyca...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 04, 2008 4:12 PM *To:* Louise Power *Cc:* Texas Cavers *Subject:* Re: [Texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] OT: TV Converter Box Coupons

2008-01-04 Thread Don Cooper
I'm wondering if my old rabbit ears will work with digital - as I understand its a different set of frequencies -WaV On Jan 4, 2008 1:02 PM, Louise Power power_lou...@hotmail.com wrote: This was sent to me by a cousin. Take it for what you will. At midnight on February 17, 2009 your

Re: [Texascavers] OT - caver biograghy related

2008-01-02 Thread Don Cooper
David, Accept Change. Move On. Not everyone wants to be followed, evaluated scrutinized or even remember. Not all the time. It depends on the individual, (not the seeker/investigator/guy looking through my trash). Reminiscing can be fun, but I bet the Dali Lama doesn't do much of it. Living

Re: [Texascavers] OT - caver biograghy related

2008-01-02 Thread Don Cooper
Manager' - I guess that would be something to do. It might indeed provide interesting material for the carbide corner. -WaV On Jan 2, 2008 10:32 AM, Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com wrote: David, Accept Change. Move On. Not everyone wants to be followed, evaluated scrutinized or even remember

Re: [Texascavers] RE: a Mexico travel tip

2007-12-30 Thread Don Cooper
Yes, I remember your mentioning it on a reply that you sent to me. Now the very last barrier is down! Mexico is so much more at home now. -WaV On Dec 30, 2007 7:41 PM, Minton, Mark mmin...@nmhu.edu wrote: David Locklear said: When travelling in small towns or cities in Mexico, the

[Texascavers] OT - Looking for transport from SE Austin to Stricklin Party

2007-12-30 Thread Don Cooper
Sorry for treating this remailer as a ride service bulletin board - I am looking to see if perhaps I could get a ride from Ben White I-35 area to the New Years Party at Bullock Hollow. Please contact off list. -Thanks, WaV

[Texascavers] Jay Jordan - Please Contact

2007-12-27 Thread Don Cooper
I am attempting to get in touch with Jay Jordan - please pass on phone # or email address please -DC

Re: [Texascavers] Mexico's Cave of Crystals - Nat. Geo's 5th most viewed news pix of 2007

2007-12-26 Thread Don Arburn
http://giantcrystals.strahlen.org/america/naica.htm includes a Google Earth link! It is a single huge chamber about 70m in diameter and is still acessible to geoscientists and even - as far as we know - to the public. Road Trip! On Dec 26, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Mike Quinn wrote: Giant

Re: [Texascavers] radioactive

2007-12-19 Thread Don Cooper
How about the little plastic boy scout badges from China that the media was hyping/freaking-out over they were painted with something lead-based. Didn't they used to MAKE those little badges out of lead? -WaV On Dec 19, 2007 11:41 PM, George Nincehelser geo...@nincehelser.com wrote: You

Re: [Texascavers] OT - Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste

2007-12-19 Thread Don Cooper
many of us live. I haven't insured one of these in the last twenty-five years. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL. Fritz From: Nico Escamilla [mailto:pitboun...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:30 AM To: Fritz Holt Cc: Don Cooper; Simon Newton; texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] radioactive ash

2007-12-19 Thread Don Cooper
Funny, at La. Tech they had an actual pile within bricks of lead, carbon and cadnium and stuff with real uranium inside it. It wasn't large enough to be self-sustaining. It was what they call sub-critical mass. The nuclear nerds that spent most of their free on-campus time there, loved to

Re: [Texascavers] Future Caving Vehicle?

2007-12-18 Thread Don Arburn
I have a 1986 Suzuki Carry 4x4 truck with fold down bed sides very much like this. Not U.S. D.O.T. approved however. Many saw it 2 years ago at TCR, Allan Cobb used it to oversee operations. On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Travis Scott wrote: For the earth friendly cavers, a new, small concept

Re: [Texascavers] OT - Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste

2007-12-18 Thread Don Cooper
That is correct! As well - consider that radioactive CARBON can create radioactive Carbon Dioxide. Radioactivity released by coal powered plants IS indeed significantly greater than any well-mannered nuclear power plant. This was something taught to me by the 'critical mass' nerds (nuclear

Re: [Texascavers] Flying suits video

2007-12-12 Thread Don Cooper
The best and only real way to do this is for somebody to strap a fiberglass boogie board to the chest of his flying suit and go for it on a ski slope! I've even seen video of a guy flying over ski slopes at a 10 to 12 foot MAINTAINED (surface) altitude - land falling away at something probably

Re: [Texascavers] OT - future of automobiles

2007-12-11 Thread Don Cooper
I've seen, there are only around 3% of them still in (limited) service. And some of those are around 70 years old! Do they even let commerical pilots that old fly? George On 12/10/07, *Don Cooper* wavyca...@gmail.com wrote: Bill, DC3's are not pressurized. Thus, they don't have

Re: [Texascavers] OT - future of automobiles

2007-12-10 Thread Don Cooper
Bill, DC3's are not pressurized. Thus, they don't have the stress factor of being inflated and deflated like a balloon every time they fly. That is one reason so many are still around today. -WaV On Dec 10, 2007 5:08 PM, Bill Walden wdwal...@hughes.net wrote: Gee, how many DC3's are still

[Texascavers] Seeking advice from experience of Texas Cavers for towing vehicles

2007-12-09 Thread Don Cooper
I'm in a position where it appears I need to pull (tow) a 94 Saturn sedan from Dallas to Austin. I bought an A Frame doohickey at Pep Boys but had to remove Saturn's bumper completely in order to find a a non plastic-milkcrate lattice covering to bolt onto. Attachment coupling for the Saturn is

Re: [Texascavers] computer progress

2007-12-07 Thread Don Cooper
Through the years I've crossed my fingers and held high hopes that the same thing would occur with the logical replacement for the internal combustion engine (IMO) : the small gas turbine. If large gas turbines can operate at 80% efficiency and piston combustion engines are limited to a maximum of

Re: [Texascavers] goat and railroad tie

2007-12-04 Thread Don Cooper
My own first exposure to this story was, I believe, through a cartoon. Possibly drawn by Charlie Loving. I believe in the first rendition *I* was aware of - the goat had been tied to an old truck transmission. -WaV On Dec 4, 2007 11:19 AM, Sam Young youn...@centurytel.net wrote: The story

Re: [Texascavers] RE: (OT) El Paso: West Texas Character

2007-11-28 Thread Don Cooper
My own interviews with Mr. Pittman have been equally enjoyable. -WaV On Nov 27, 2007 9:57 PM, RD Milhollin rdmilhol...@charter.net wrote: I was passing through El Paso the other night as well, though I did stop. On the way back I was trying to find a listenable radio station and stumbled

Re: [Texascavers] the geology conference

2007-11-28 Thread Don Cooper
David - I also have unfathomably stoopid (religio-philosophically) peoples whom I descended from and/or around. I feel your pain - said a much better president. This made me feel better - Atheists are deluded: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bkhQLt1vbWU -WaV On Nov 27, 2007 4:46 PM, David Locklear

[Texascavers] Please repost thread from BMorgan

2007-11-22 Thread Don Cooper
Would anyone in possession of Sleazeweazel's post on canoeing the dregs of Houston's Buffalo Bayou - Please repost it to me. Somehow, I cannot find it and I would like to keep it! -WaV

Re: [Texascavers] cave mapping from the surface ?

2007-11-18 Thread Don Cooper
I read through the posts and especially liked the angle which Mark Minton re-approached the subject. If dowsing is actually done using these principles - (no matter how the technique is actually connected to the human machine) - it makes a whole lot more sense. I.E. The use of dowsing rods as a

Re: [Texascavers] RE: finite resources

2007-11-16 Thread Don Cooper
That's odd. I had heard the maxim many times: the *majority *of people who ever lived are alive right now and believed it. When you look at the area under the steepest, up to the present side of the exponential population curve, it does seem to cover more area than the slow rate of change sections

Re: [Texascavers] Canon has less sensor noise at higher ISO Re: [Texascavers] Digital (cave) Photography

2007-11-15 Thread Don Cooper
I'd like to throw my opinion in on this subject - I think low sensor noise is even MORE important than density. (i.e. high number of pixels) It seems to be frequently left out of specifications and 8 megapixels ain't jack if they're noisy! I have a reasonable Leica lensed Panasonic camera which

[Texascavers] Paging Will Rupley -

2007-11-14 Thread Don Cooper
Please contact off list for any contact information. -WaV

Re: [Texascavers] Hand Made Vertical Cave Near Houston

2007-11-13 Thread Don Cooper
Oh yeah - There is a nice tunnel system that connects many of the Downtown Houston Buildings. They were mostly well lighted and air conditioned walkways. I attended an organized tunnel tour back in 1989 - somewhere, I think I've still got the t-shirt. It has a cartoon gopher wearing tennis shoes

[Texascavers] Hand Made Vertical Cave Near Houston

2007-11-12 Thread Don Cooper
Lacking any caves near his house near Houston, my brother has apparently outdone that fact and chooses to go underground anyway. http://picasaweb.google.com/wavycaver/Temp/photo?authkey=1MV1s3DLAhk#5132180303528664098 Actually, the 17 foot deep hole is to be the anchorage for a giant pole he's

Re: [Texascavers] Comet Warning

2007-11-04 Thread Don Cooper
Could anyone post what direction and elevation to look for it around midnight? I'm not familiar with Perseus. -WV On Nov 4, 2007 7:57 AM, Gregg iar...@io.com wrote: There's definitely a comet. It's about magnitude 3 or so just north of the main bright stars in Perseus. I mistook it for one of

Re: [Texascavers] Mass Extinction Theory

2007-11-02 Thread Don Cooper
Argue asteroid vs volcano if you will, but everyone who reads the Bible knows that it was Noah's Flood that wiped out the dinosaurs! My Niece - a college educated Aggie - told me so! -WaV On Nov 2, 2007 8:43 AM, Minton, Mark mmin...@nmhu.edu wrote: Ancient Bat Flew Without Echolocation

[Texascavers] Contact Information Request

2007-11-02 Thread Don Cooper
Does anyone have email, or phone information for Rae and Walt Neagler(sp?)? I also need to get in touch with Nico Jones - any info appreaciated! Thanks, WaV - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[Texascavers] Re: Contact Information Request

2007-11-02 Thread Don Cooper
Egads! Me brain is broke. Francisco Javier Ulverico Jones - aka Vico, I mean. -regards I also need to get in touch with Nico Jones - any info appreaciated! Thanks, WaV - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To

Re: [Texascavers] Dangers of golfing

2007-11-02 Thread Don Cooper
Sure people get killed playing Golf. Hundreds die of heart attacks every year out on the fairway. Remember the movie 'Falling Down' with Michel Douglas's line: Now you're going to die wearing those stupid clothes! And all I wanted to do is walk across your golf course! Please Elaborate how Rune

Re: [Texascavers] energy

2007-10-29 Thread Don Cooper
Based on the story so far (man, science technology and the occasional clueless misuse of the latter by the former) I imagine a scenario where just as the very last few drops of hydrocarbon fuels are extracted - someone's going to find out - that it would have been really easy all along - to

[Texascavers] OT: Underground but ExTerra

2007-10-28 Thread Don Cooper
On Wired Science on PBS last night I watched an article on an abundant meteor field in Kansas. Fascinating. Thousands of pounds of metal-rich meteorites spread across the cornfields. But I'm quite puzzled by these recent (less than 10,000 yrs old) landings - many attributed by the same initial

Re: [Texascavers] Orionids Meteor Shower at TCR (almost)

2007-10-22 Thread Don Cooper
Did anyone see any good ones? -WaV On 10/15/07, cavera...@aol.com cavera...@aol.com wrote: Assuming the weather is good. The peak is Sunday night, but maybe there will be worthwile viewing on Saturday, as well. Perseids August 12 New Moon Orionids October 21 Evening gibbous Leonids

Re: [Texascavers] TCR cooks thanks!

2007-10-22 Thread Don Arburn
Ya'll did good! The food was delicious. Great job! THANK YOU! On Oct 22, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Stefan Creaser wrote: I am *extremely* grateful and thankful that we had an excellent team of Cooks, and of course cooks' helpers, at this years TCR. Y'all did a great job leading up to the event

Re: [Texascavers] LED Primer

2007-10-21 Thread Don Cooper
Speaking of LEDs... I'm wanting to use a large capacitor to level the voltage off half-wave rectification (single std.diode isolating the capacitor - [k.i.s.]) - for a big series string of 40 white LEDs that are hooked up direct with a 100ohm resistor in series. It works, but flickers at 60hz.

Re: [Texascavers] Aggie Speleological Society at TCR

2007-10-18 Thread Don Cooper
Ah, ...and behold, they knew their holes from an ASS in the ground... -WaV On 10/18/07, Alan Blevins alan.blev...@gmail.com wrote: As you may know from e-mails sent through the Texascavers list over the summer, this year is the 30th anniversary of the Aggie Speleological Society (ASS, from

Re: [Texascavers] OT - tube tv's

2007-10-17 Thread Don Cooper
I just saw a little blurb about it - (watched on a completely digital television set that doubles as a computer but only receives analog TV signals. It uses a big CRT tube rather than flat panel - the irony...) But it said that the switchover occurs at the end of '08. Starting in '09 emergency

Re: [Texascavers] A caving trip to Picorete

2007-10-10 Thread Don Cooper
Add bongo drums. It makes great Beatnick poetry. Yeah Daddyo -WaV On 10/10/07, Chris Vreeland cvreel...@austin.rr.com wrote: There's comedy gold in that there translation. On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:18 PM, gi...@att.net wrote: but three Americans of the AMCS and a crude one that I never

Re: [Texascavers] Jumpin in a Cave commercial

2007-10-08 Thread Don Cooper
Oddly Cool! I wonder why they're all running with their hands at their sides? -WV On 10/6/07, Mark Passerby caves...@gmail.com wrote: :) http://www.cavediggers.com/thehole.html -- Mark Passerby Cavediggers.com http://cavediggers.com/

Re: [Texascavers] Martian pits

2007-10-05 Thread Don Cooper
Would dessication of a conglomerate result in sinkholes? It sure does not look like any kind of an impact crater or window into a lava tube. To me it looks a lot like a good old sinkhole created with hydraulic erosion. -WaV On 10/5/07, Mixon Bill bmixon...@austin.rr.com wrote: Interesting

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Enhanced Mars pit photos

2007-10-05 Thread Don Cooper
Let's see... I DO know of a guy who's designed some pretty good vehicles for going caving in Mexico... Now if his attention were to be attached to a Mars trip... -WaV On 10/5/07, David Locklear dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote: Surely our 1st astronauts there will have jet-packs, so it should be

Re: [Texascavers] RE: OT - World news

2007-10-03 Thread Don Cooper
This is part experiment and part news. Experiment part is to see if I've inadvertently attached any part of original message and is clinging like some form of organic matter to the bottom of my figurative shoe. The news part is, I think, in the underlying link. 3,200 Gold miners are trapped.

Re: [Texascavers] hitting reply

2007-10-01 Thread Don Cooper
Last chance to be not abstaining... I see ONE message below the lines which I'm now typing. From Brian Riordan - then I scroll down and see a message from Ted Samsel... Is that what everyone else sees? Is there even more? But I'm using a mail handler (Gmail - LOVE it) that takes same titles in

Re: [Texascavers] cave fallout shelters

2007-09-29 Thread Don Arburn
I suspect caves would become charnel grounds with the sheer numbers of people descending upon it for shelter and the number of gun owners willing to defend the cave or try to take it for themselves. It would NOT be organized and anything but civil. Injuries, disease, starvation,

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Sea Level Rise--the Map

2007-09-29 Thread Don Arburn
http://maps.sanantonio.gov/website/COSAMaps/viewer.htm On Sep 29, 2007, at 10:07 PM, Scott wrote: If you live in Travis county you can go to the City of Austin website, under Development, GIS viewer and it has plat maps that you can add property lines, utilities, zoning, fema flood plains,

Re: [Texascavers] Fwd: OT- Fwd: ZEITGEIST: Don't Mind the Man Behind the Curtain.

2007-09-24 Thread Don Cooper
Well, aren't cavers supposed to be keen on the unorthodox? I watched it and thought it was pretty interesting until they started talking about bombs bringing down the WTCs and the total lack of evidence of aircraft at the Pentagon site. Is that for real? Not a single shred of human tissue or

Re: [Texascavers] This be OT you scurvy dogs

2007-09-19 Thread Don Arburn
Yaaar genius! Don Arburn On Sep 19, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Kara Savvas misskarabi...@yahoo.com wrote: Where do pirates keep their clothes? In an ARMoiRR, of course! - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com

Re: [Texascavers] OT - homebrewing query

2007-09-18 Thread Don Arburn
I'll help take some off your hands too! Don Arburn On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Allan B. Cobb a...@oztotl.com Sandi Bring some to TCR and I'll sample it! Allan - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe

Re: [Texascavers] 4 weeks homebrewing too much

2007-09-18 Thread Don Arburn
Are these bottles like the Modelo Negro style? These seem to work pretty well! The honey lagers (or were they ale) are delicious! Don Arburn On Sep 18, 2007, at 4:32 PM, gi...@att.net wrote: Mexican quarts known as Cahuamas (phonetic spelling may be a bit non- standard) which is the name

[Texascavers] Dung [Bat Guano] In The Space Race

2007-09-17 Thread Don Cooper
Read it here: http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2004/2/2004_2_4.shtml Shalom -WaV

[Texascavers] Guano Gathering Event Published in TPW Magazine

2007-09-17 Thread Don Cooper
I didn't know this event was published! Next thing ya know, Jim will be selling tickets! :-) http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2007/jan/scout3/ -WaV

Re: [Texascavers] Speleo-calculus

2007-09-17 Thread Don Cooper
Obviously if your in the basement or a cave - you are exposed to radon. Calculus is what you get on your teeth if you don't brush and floss frequently enough. Shoot - I thought there was some kind of deep caving MATHEMATICS involved and you were about to dissertate! -WaV Although, the article

[Texascavers] Paging Marcus Barksdale

2007-09-05 Thread Don Cooper
Marcus? Anyone heard from Marcus? WaV

Re: [Texascavers] WOW! More detail from the crater holes on Mars!!!

2007-08-31 Thread Don Cooper
I respect your skepticism - but this pic does not look fake in any way to me. -WaV On 8/30/07, George Nincehelser geo...@nincehelser.com wrote: I've no experience evaluating photos like this, but it just looks odd to me. I think what bothers me is that shadow is so straight. Wouldn't you

Re: [Texascavers] FW: Fainting Goats

2007-08-31 Thread Don Cooper
Now I'm left wondering what the evolutionary plus point is for this kind of syndrome... Predation, it would seem, would have taken these genes out of the pool long ago! -WaV On 8/30/07, Fritz Holt fh...@townandcountryins.com wrote: Here is an explanation on the fainting goats. My guess is

Re: [Texascavers] FW: Fainting Goats

2007-08-31 Thread Don Cooper
Hmmm Suddenly the term scapegoat comes to mind. Something tells me there is a connection between 'scapegoat' and 'fainting goats' but I just can't put my finger on it Please help. -WaV On 8/31/07, Louise Power power_lou...@hotmail.com wrote: My experience with fainting goats in

[Texascavers] WOW! More detail from the crater holes on Mars!!!

2007-08-30 Thread Don Cooper
This is copied from a post Lee Skinner placed on the Yahoo Cave-Diggers group: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera has a new photo of one of the pits on Mars: Dark pits on some of the Martian volcanoes have been speculated to be entrances into caves. A previous HiRISE image,

Re: [Texascavers] Creation Museum overalls

2007-08-30 Thread Don Cooper
Nah - in heaven your everlasting body is perfect. So I guess all the women will have bodies of 18 yr olds. I guess I'll have to wear a towel. -WaV On 8/30/07, cavera...@aol.com cavera...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 8/30/2007 11:51:29 AM Central Daylight Time, gi...@att.net writes: I

Re: [Texascavers] Cave Names

2007-08-30 Thread Don Cooper
Hmmm - how about Adjustable Rate Morgage (A.R.M.) Pit? -WaV On 8/30/07, gi...@att.net gi...@att.net wrote: How 'bout: [Anybody's] Arm Pit? --Ediger -- Original message -- From: Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com Is there a sinkhole de mayo anywhere? -WaV

Re: [Texascavers] clash of cultures

2007-08-29 Thread Don Cooper
I understand that it's safer to travel through areas of the jungle inhabited by cannibals if you face-paint yourself to look like a clown. That being - allegedly, clowns just taste funny. -WaV On 8/29/07, Brian Riordan riordan.br...@gmail.com wrote: *Anyway, if the locals really object, well,

Re: [Texascavers] Creation Museum

2007-08-29 Thread Don Cooper
There also is one in Bossier City, La. I dont remember a gate fee. I found it to be pretty convincing. Fairly good proof that creation science advocates are whacked. -WaV On 8/29/07, Ted Samsel tbsam...@infionline.net wrote: There's also one in Natural Bridge, VA. Minton could give a tour and

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Too Commonly Used Cave Names

2007-08-29 Thread Don Cooper
Is there a sinkhole de mayo anywhere? -WaV On 8/29/07, Minton, Mark mmin...@nmhu.edu wrote: Carl Kunath said: click on this link to have a look at a couple of pages from *50 Years*that discuss the topic of Texas cave names. In that article under Some you wonder about is

Re: [Texascavers] FW: Global Warming forms more ice in ice cave in Austria

2007-08-29 Thread Don Cooper
What I found unusual was the carbide light requirement. How carbide generates less heat than electric lighting is beyond my tiny comprehension -WaV On 8/28/07, gi...@att.net gi...@att.net wrote: -- Forwarded Message: -- From: Cheryl Jones cheryl.ca...@verizon.net

Re: [Texascavers] Comfort Subsidence :

2007-08-23 Thread Don Cooper
Near where I once worked in West Houston - I remember a fault that crossed Pine Lake Dr off of Bunker Hill @ I-10. The little neighborhood had a few houses that had been built on the line which meandered about the area - as a result they were being sheared apart. (late 80's). -Don C On 8/21/07

Re: [Texascavers] Bad Bat publicity

2007-08-22 Thread Don Cooper
Maybe this can generate a reason to impose a ban on importation of the framed display fruit bat carcases through e-bay? -WaV On 8/22/07, gi...@att.net gi...@att.net wrote: Snagged this from another forum: The Marburg virus mystery solved: fruit bats.

Re: [Texascavers] OT - Hurricane Dean

2007-08-21 Thread Don Arburn
Headed west across Mexico, north of us in Antigua. This is my first hurricane to pass between me and home. No rain here. Sent while mobile. On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:45 AM, David Locklear dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote: As of 1 a.m on Tuesday, the hurricane appears to be going further south

Re: [Texascavers] urban growth

2007-08-15 Thread Don Cooper
I head a story of a couple of kids getting stuck in an antlion kind of thing in that cave under luby's parking lot. I think some local caver got a citation of bravery for going in there to get em out. Was that dead-dog cave? -WaV On 8/15/07, Fritz Holt fh...@townandcountryins.com wrote: Any

Re: [Texascavers] Message Board

2007-08-12 Thread Don Cooper
For how long now? Didn't someone in San Antonio recently give up the exact same domain name?? (or was that texascaver.com ?) -WaV On 8/12/07, RD Milhollin rdmilhol...@charter.net wrote: Tone, Fort Worth caver and cave diver Rick Hornung has been hosting a Texas caver's forum www.txcavers.com

[Texascavers] Live Texas Cavers Report

2007-08-10 Thread Don Arburn
Volcano Fuego near Antigua is erupting. Beautiful site from hotel roof! Been caving near Nenton, to stay on topic... Sent while mobile. - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [Texascavers] Natural Earthquakes vrs Mine Collapse

2007-08-10 Thread Don Cooper
Yeah - I hope if they died - that it happened very, very quick. =WaV On 8/10/07, Louise Power power_lou...@hotmail.com wrote: And the type of mining they were doing was particularly dangerous. When they mine a vein of coal, they follow the vein leaving pillars of coal to hold up the ceiling.

Re: [Texascavers] a salt cavern tour

2007-08-09 Thread Don Cooper
Yeah - I'd like the low sodium tour, please! :-) Alternately, I wonder what it would take to get a job there or otherwise intern. Got that explosives permit -WaV On 8/8/07, John P. Brooks jpbrook...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Do they offer a low sodium tour for half price? On 8/8/07 10:42

[Texascavers] NSS Conv. Report # 8

2007-07-24 Thread Don Arburn
I am at Groad Hollow sitting around the campfire and using Mr. Arburn's iPhone. Today I toured the commercial cave Bluesprings Cavern. Troglobitic crawfish are very common on the tour. The aluminum flat bottom boat takes you upstream and then back downstream. The depth of the stream ranges

Re: [Texascavers] wide angle LED caving light

2007-07-21 Thread Don Cooper
Carbide? A whole lot cheaper! So the Dollar listing was for Euro's - I guess. Perhaps the price might come down with more production. -WaV On 7/21/07, bcow...@satx.rr.com bcow...@satx.rr.com wrote: Ok so for the real people its back to carbide Bob Cowell/Treasurer Bexar Grotto 5806 Cactus

[Texascavers] Everybody's on TV these days...

2007-07-21 Thread Don Cooper
I was watching This Old House this afternoon - they had on a repeat of a project done in Austin last fall. I believe I caught sight of Vico Jones in the background of a couple of shots working on a front porch. Any one know if this was actually him? -WaV

Re: [Texascavers] wide angle LED caving light

2007-07-20 Thread Don Cooper
WOW! It looks like it could be the Rolex of cave lighting. (and the price is? cringing) -WaV On 7/20/07, David Ochel li...@ochel.net wrote: Hi, Hadn't seen this one before: http://www.scurion.ch/ms/ Cheers, David - Visit

Re: [Texascavers] wide angle LED caving light

2007-07-20 Thread Don Cooper
Oh - found the pricelist $510 to 540 depending on colour Well -WaV On 7/20/07, Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com wrote: WOW! It looks like it could be the Rolex of cave lighting. (and the price is? cringing) -WaV On 7/20/07, David Ochel li...@ochel.net wrote: Hi, Hadn't seen

[Texascavers] [Bat Caught by Stalactite]

2007-07-16 Thread Don Arburn
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/speleotherms-stalagmites-stalactites.htm - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [Texascavers] [Bat Caught by Stalactite]

2007-07-16 Thread Don Cooper
WOW! I guess everything in the bible is correct then! So the oldest caves are only 4000 years old, God Created Adam and Eve with magic, evolution is bunk and Noah's Ark WAS NOT a increadably far fetched fable.. Who Knew? -WaV On 7/17/07, Don Arburn donarb...@mac.com wrote: http

Re: [Texascavers] Fw: New Mexicans driving to convention

2007-07-16 Thread Don Arburn
I'll be arriving in Louisville Friday afternoon and would be happy to give a lift to Marengo. I'm currently attempting to rent a RV there to take to convention, so should have room -if I find RV. Don Arburn donarb...@mac.com On Jul 16, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Bill Bentley wrote

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Dermabond Skin Glue

2007-07-11 Thread Don Cooper
You too may have accidentally noticed how well cyanocrylic (sp) glues bond skin together! But I always had thought it might be toxic if taken internally. additionally - moisture seems to work as a catalyst - and also isn't there a booster hardener or something available that works with most

Re: [Texascavers] Ancient chilis from Mexican cave demonstrate long tradition of hot foods :

2007-07-10 Thread Don Cooper
I still think Havenero's were introduced by space aliens. Ancient spacecraft were powered by the deadly peppers -WaV On 7/10/07, jerryat...@aol.com jerryat...@aol.com wrote: Ancient Americans Liked It Hot: Mexican Cuisine Traced To 1,500 Years Ago *Science Daily

[Texascavers] OK, please allow me to jump into the LED fray....

2007-07-10 Thread Don Cooper
Light up the water coming out of your faucet: http://www.sciencetoystore.com/index.html?lang=en-ustarget=d26.html REALLY cool looking. And check out the other stuff the science toy store has to offer. If anything might appeal to a gifting minded caver for a gifted individual- this is a place

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Convention camping.

2007-07-09 Thread Don Cooper
Yeah - the Convention in Sullivan Mo. wasn't too far from there. Wow - the night we got there the town was in under such a deluge that we had to sleep in the gym where the conferences were being held. Then we had some more. I got wet, (pretty much stayed that way) got bit by a million mosquitos

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Another LED light

2007-07-05 Thread Don Cooper
, Mark mmin...@nmhu.edu wrote: Don Cooper said: I take it that the lithium D cells that Stone made were not 1.5 volt? Bill had the lamps made, not the batteries, which were 3-volt lithium/sulfur dioxide type. (There are several different lithium battery chemistries. Some, like

[Texascavers] Caves in Alaska

2007-07-04 Thread Don Cooper
I'm kindof 'fraid of venturing into crevases or ice caves - but anyone aware of any caves on the slopes of McKinley or Denali National park??? I'm heading up there at the end of the month. -WaV

Re: [Texascavers] Old caving gear?

2007-07-04 Thread Don Cooper
WELL I think you might want to narrow that down a little. Some plastics emit biotoxins when burned. But I'd agree wholeheartedly that all your old wooden caving equipment would do well to fuel the fire. -WaV On 7/4/07, gi...@att.net gi...@att.net wrote: -- Original message

Re: [Texascavers] OT - computer woes - avoid Google bundleware at all cost

2007-07-03 Thread Don Cooper
on your hard drive). Other than that, it's a really useful set of software. It's one of the first things I load on a new system. George On 7/2/07, Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com wrote: Recently while installing Google Earth - I made the mistake of accepting installation of a slick looking

Re: [Texascavers] OT - computer woes - avoid Google bundleware at all cost

2007-07-03 Thread Don Cooper
I think I would not have had as much trouble if the darn thing would have simply allowed me to install it on a separate D Drive partition (an 8gig partition on my largest hard drive). Leaving out such options for installation is NOT an illegitimate gripe. -WaV On 7/3/07, Don Cooper wavyca

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Another LED light

2007-07-03 Thread Don Cooper
I take it that the lithium D cells that Stone made were not 1.5 volt? I bought several batches of big LEDs from China through Ebay. Each color has a different forward bias voltage and current requirement. Some (ultra-violet, I think) need 3.7 volts - all of them needed more than 1.5 volts. (If

Re: [Texascavers] OT - the iPhone hoopla

2007-07-02 Thread Don Cooper
The cell phone companies are indeed charging far more than they need to and are also assessing what amounts to double taxation. They ARE ripping you me and everyone else off! But whattya going to do? Get your corrupt political representitives to do something about it? For me - rip off that it

Re: [Texascavers] OT - the iPhone hoopla

2007-07-02 Thread Don Arburn
It kicks ass. So far it beats the pants off my Treo 650. I was one of only a handfull of Cingular customers In line, the rest complained about their service providors and were switchng. I also noticed everybody on line was already a high end cell fons user, many blacberris and treks were

Re: [Texascavers] OT - the iPhone hoopla

2007-07-02 Thread Don Arburn
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Don Arburn donarb...@mac.com wrote: It kicks ass. So far it beats the pants off my Treo 650. I was one of only a handfull of Cingular customers In line, the rest complained about their service providors and were switchng. I also noticed

Re: [Texascavers] OT - the iPhone hoopla

2007-07-02 Thread Don Arburn
. I'd like an iPhone, but I'm just not sure I'd take proper care of it. George On 7/2/07, Pete Lindsley linds...@raytheon.com wrote: In the header of Don's message the X-Mailer info is: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 1A543a) Don Arburn wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Don Arburn

Re: [Texascavers] OT - the iPhone hoopla

2007-07-02 Thread Don Arburn
as far as apps go it will be a goner. Sprint/NextelThe end of 2007 they launch their WiMax network in 3 cities.it will be a true technology disruptor once it is fully available. Mark On 7/2/07, Don Arburn donarb...@mac.com wrote: As for wear and tear, it is iPod-like

Re: [Texascavers] Bill Stone talk posted on TED.com

2007-07-02 Thread Don Cooper
WOW! I hope Richard Branson has/will see this... -WaV On 7/2/07, addi...@caveresource.com addi...@caveresource.com wrote: Bill Stone's talk from this year's TED conference has been posted. Not sure if you need to register to view the talk, registration is free.

Re: [Texascavers] Yummy for your Tummy!-OT

2007-07-02 Thread Don Cooper
Maybe one of youse gourmands can lay to rest something I've wondered about for a while now: Crispy baked pig ears were one of my Chow Chow's favorite things in the whole world. Trying to take one away from her - was the only way she would ever have tried to bite me. Nothing anyone could do would

[Texascavers] OT - computer woes - avoid Google bundleware at all cost

2007-07-02 Thread Don Cooper
Recently while installing Google Earth - I made the mistake of accepting installation of a slick looking bundle of anti-virus, anti-spyware neato screensaver and etc. junk from Google. DONT make the same mistake. Up till now, I trusted Google for not screwing things up. Not any more. Online I

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