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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
We are having a north wind today. Saturday night the surf is supposed to increase a bit. I'm hoping we get at least as much as predicted. It won't be much, but the winds will be north or northeast much of the time, so I'd expect to see at least some cuts along the front of the beach. It won't help a lot, but it will help a little. At least enough to produce some seasoned, if not old finds,
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| Square Nails and Small Lead Shot From Off-Beach Site. |
I continue to get clues from the site west of A1A. I need to come up with a name for it. I'll call it the Off Beach (OB) site until I come up with something better.
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There were times in past years that I talked a lot about space debris and those little pieces of titanium that are occasionally found. Very often it is just aluminum, but sometimes there are pieces of melted titanium. At least one detectorist had a piece verified by NASA.
If you want to revisit the topic, here is a link.
TALLAHASSEE — Boaters and others who find parts of launch vehicles or spacecraft could face theft charges if they fail to report and return the equipment.
The Senate Military and Veterans Affairs, Space and Domestic Security Committee has backed a proposal (SB 936) intended to protect aerospace companies that are increasingly reusing launch equipment.
Committee Chairman Tom Wright, a New Smyrna Beach Republican who is sponsoring the bill, said it is aimed at protecting trade secrets of the aerospace industry, noting at times boaters have recovered jettisoned capsule parts and attempted to sell the items on eBay.
“So many of these items that go up into space are in fact proprietary and are protected by trade law,” Wright said. “And when those parts for some reason, maybe from an anomaly, are lost in the water or on land, we need to provide them that protection.”
And for more about that, here is the link.
Thanks to Douglas for that link.
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So now governors and officials who want to open their states are being likened to Neanderthals. If you are going to call someone something to demean their intelligence you should at least be able to spell it without a cheat sheet.
Thanks to a 2010 genetic study at the University of California, we now know that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred. In fact, according to National Geographic, all people who aren't purely of African descent have a Neanderthal or two in the family tree, donating to us a minimum 1 to 4 percent of our DNA, with the possibility of much more...
I wouldn't take much else from that article, Most of it is a pretty sketchy.
But Home sapiens do have Neanderthal genes. Better check your gene pool before insulting your ancestors.
Fact is, Neanderthals had a larger cranial capacity than Homo sapiens. A larger cranial capacity is often associated with greater intelligence. If you go by cranial capacity, Neanderthals were likely more intelligent than Homo sapiens. I wouldn't make too much out of that, but people with genes inherited from the Neanderthal side of the family could be either benefited or hurt by those genes in some small way yet today.
Here is a link to an academic article about the relationship between cranial capacity and intelligence.
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Happy hunting,
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