Oct 5, 2006 · what is the shortest possible distance between Alcatraz island an the mainland up in Northern California?

Mar 4, 2025 · I’m not sure if I will watch or not. I haven’t been watching or reading trump-related news too much, or very actively participating in the trump threads here lately, because my attitude towards the trump administration is largely shell-shocked, numb bemusement. Yet, at the same time, part of me has a perverse fascination with the surreally awful depths to which the trump …

6 days ago · I’m surprised at how many states allow execution by firing squad. I though Utah was the only one (remember Gary Gilmore - Wikipedia? A South Carolina man is scheduled to be executed in the manner tonight (March 7). He also had the choice of lethal injection or the electric chair. South Carolina uses three shooters - all with live ammunition, while Utah uses five …

Jan 20, 2025 · I’ve always enjoyed watching the ceremonies with the pageantry. They’ve usually had close-up shots of the senators, Supremes and family with entourage. They’ve usually a Marine Corps band, a vocalist and a poet come up in turn. I’ve enjoyed seeing the presidents take the oath and give their speech. I liked most of the presidents’ speeches since Reagan, some …

Aug 24, 2022 · Paleontologists believe that up-and-down spinal flexion provided improved lung function needed for higher metabolic levels, as well as being better suited to a more upright movement, with legs under the body rather than to the sides. Whale and other marine mammal tails developed from this inherent movement restriction.

Sep 17, 2006 · After watching too much discovery channel I have figured out the T-Rex debate(s). Apparently the people, who were rather generously portrayed as Ross, can’t decide if the T-Rex was a hunter or a scavenger, or if it could run or if it only walked. If it only walked it couldn’t cover enough ground to be a hunter and was a scavenger. However, the T-Rex didn’t run or walk. …

Jul 28, 2020 · Maybe not an extant sperm whale but one of there have been some guesses made about one of it’s ancestors. The article proposes that an earlier relative of the sperm whale, Leviathan melvillei, could exceed the bite force of a pliosaur, “a calculated power of over 15 tons or 33,000 pounds of bite force”. .

Jan 27, 2025 · No idea if there’s any truth to this, but one reason could be that he’s got his eyes on Joe Brady or Kellen Moore (or Matt Magy/Kliff Kingsbury). And they have enough inside information to know that their guy will be bringing staff along with him. While filling the staff is a worry, if your HC brings half the staff from his playoff team with, you aren’t losing as much …

Mar 5, 2025 · Watching the first episode again and I am surprised how much it picked right up from the end of Season 3 of the original show. I never thought we’d get another season of this show or see this Daredevil again.

I remember watching a tv series about a group of English and Australian women in the Philippines in WWII, who were captured by the Japanese. Tenko is too early. (And the title is not familiar to me.) I’m sure this was late-'90s at the earliest. And I’m sure Jenny Agutter had a …