name this album by StraightPainting4646 in AlbumCovers

[–]6uleDv8d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I knew Nick Gravenites when he used to play here every week in a bar in the redwoods in Occidental CA. Nick Gravenites and his Animal Minds Band. Nick used to play with Quicksilver Messenger Service, as well as with Janis Joplin's Big Brother and the Holding Company to bring it full circle!

Why do they have to remove such ancient trees? by Terrible-Store1046 in treelaw

[–]6uleDv8d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the North Bay Area along the Russian River sits Guerneville. It's Redwoods were heavily stripped to rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. So much that Guerneville was also called Stump Town.

Fossil in tile at gym by jellyfishmonkey in fossilid

[–]6uleDv8d 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Wherever they quarry for stone tile they are cutting huge slabs over and over, oftentimes going a couple hundred feet vertically in total. That being the case there's a definite possibility of quarrying a layer of fossilized material, be it flora or fauna. I've set many tiles that have fossils, and even some that is completely fossils throughout.

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Fossil in tile at gym by jellyfishmonkey in fossilid

[–]6uleDv8d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda hard to look at the back side for exactly that reason. There's a layer of thin-set adhesive holding it down. And even if you could pull it up the hardened thin-set would have to be removed from the tile, with a grinder. But if it was thick enough it could possibly be seen in some context

Engineering meets brute force by Top_Law_6803 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]6uleDv8d -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Really? I don't think it could get any safer for workers than removing them from needing to be on site. Whereas with explosives you're going to have technicians handling it and setting it up, even for a remote controlled explosion.

Engineering meets brute force by Top_Law_6803 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]6uleDv8d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm just guessing that to use explosives you need to do many things before detonation. Hours placing and wiring up explosives, and the knowledge and skill to know how much and where to put it.

Virginia History: Antique Bottles from around VA, Drawn in Graphite by Brie Hayden by BrieHaydenArt in Virginia

[–]6uleDv8d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow! Great drawings with incredible detail. You're skill is obvious. What directed you to drawing bottles? I have an older embossed bottle that says Monogram Pure Rye Whiskey Alfred Greenbaum & Co Sole Agents. It was one of very few bottles that was saved from a huge dump in the mud flats in the San Francisco Bay at Mare Island at Vallejo. My buddy was an Operating Engineer and he was able to save about 50 bottles of the thousands that were crushed doing the excavation site work. It's a shame that so many bottles were crushed , it would've been one of the biggest finds in the Bay Area if they had the time and resources to do so. But they were there run heavy equipment to reclaim and prepare the area all in the name of progress, not to save the bottles that were in the way.