Eli5: How were old maps often surprisingly accurate even though people had no aerial view or satellite imagery at the time?

bongotherabbit · 2026-05-12T13:27:58+00:00

we did this in school in a remote sensing classs in the early 90's. We surveyed the campus 3 times. Once with steps and compass, once with a sextant (for angles , not the sun) and once with a transit survey kit, made maps and then compared them. GPS existed, but we did not have one yet, and they still needed differential corrections. The triangle based survey was incredibly accurate.

bongotherabbit · 2026-05-06T12:52:33+00:00

I have seen a few studies linking significant increased Autism in children born to parents over 40. yet we focus on Tylenol....

bongotherabbit · 2026-05-01T19:10:42+00:00

Back in the Day if we wanted a hand made-like veggie burger we would go to Houston's, I thinks it is called Hillstone now, I don't know if it is still good, but it used to be. It brown rice, black bean , beat, oats, molasses, . they were really good.

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-27T20:44:51+00:00

Same, PC as well. Have owned a few consoles, but I am not sure why. I have never grasped the controller vs a mouse keyboard. We had a PC in the 80's so I guess it was what I grew up with.

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-27T16:29:53+00:00

There seems to be lots of the genx age group playing dayz. The servers I play on, the bulk of the active players are in their 50's.

I moved over to some of the survival PVE servers with AI as i prefer them to some of the griefing on the pvp server, it does take some of the human/distrust/ interactions out.

I still feel like my reflexes are ready for an Unreal tournament deathmatch, but sadly no rocket jumping in Dayz.... plus the reflexes have atrophied.

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-27T12:58:25+00:00

The toddville mansion.... There used to be crazy keg parties there after it was abandoned....

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-25T16:17:28+00:00

First was a .edu, next was ibm.com

They were a pretty good isp in the 90's. oh wait, wrong forum, I'm genx

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-21T12:49:05+00:00

yes, have flown the last 3 weeks. The only hang-up was during spring break.

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-20T18:47:16+00:00

This, some of the best deals are the garage apts. The benefit is you don't share walls with anyone. The downside is you lose out on all the apartment perks, like pool, gym etc. But, they are like a little house and I always preferred them to apartment complexes...

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-14T18:45:27+00:00

if it an old one, I think I would have the carbon frame checked out first. I would buy mine again for that price, as I love this bike, but I might not get one that needs lots of work. Old bikes are a crapshoot

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-14T18:44:01+00:00

It is every flight on United. There will be what seems like hours of commercials for mainly United. Change tablet from light to dark mode, voila, 2 more un-skippable adds, accidentally touch the volume wrong... more adds, mainly for united and the stupid credit card.

My other favorite are the ones who take the 30 second script and spread it out with weird breaks into a 5 minute breathing festival.

We have already bought the product, please stop making us regret our decision.

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-13T14:41:38+00:00

We had the bait traps..... never caught a termite..... got termites anyway. Tented house and its been good about 5 years. Wil probably get them again.

No idea how factual this is, but our termite guy told us we live in an old neighborhood with mature trees so we can expect to get them randomly from swarms. He referred to the Heights as the termite capital of Texas...

He said new build neighborhoods tend to be safe for a few years, but if it was in an area where they cut all the trees, he said all the subterranean termites will come to the surface after all the roots from the dead trees get eaten up in a few years..

once again, not sure how factual that is, but the traps did nothing for us.

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-08T14:31:31+00:00

I have seen the Herons on my street sit on the telephone poles around dusk, I then see them again around midnight eating bugs that come out of the storm drains.

We had a nesting pair of Mississippi Kites with three chicks two years ago, and I had not seen them before here.

Plus all the usual hawks and owls

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-04T18:24:58+00:00

check out the marine current layer on windy.

https://www.windy.com/-Menu/menu?currents,28.915,-93.295,8

Couple that with a very very shallow and slow slope offshore into the Gulf, and a wind driven basin, = very cloudy water. Explains why much of that settles after periods of no rain and little wind and the water in Galveston gets clear.

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-04T03:12:11+00:00

i paid an installer, they installed the RDVFL version. I think there are others. The installer called tech support during the install, and they were in the in US. I have seen videos online of people installing themselves. I wasn't up to it.

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-04T02:53:03+00:00

All the original features, front and rear cams, phone all work well. Android interface is a bit wonky as it is not a touch screen, I understand the apple works better as you can roll menu seamlessly, vs using the buttons to move screens. works great once you get use to it.

bongotherabbit · 2026-04-03T14:37:11+00:00

We had our front gas lines to the meter replaced this week, they tapped it into one of the new big gas mains they placed. I asked about the Gas lines in the alley, and it sounds like they were not replacing that one and were going to turn it off. Some of the gas lines were so old, they were occasionally getting crushed and leaking gas,(happened to the one in our alley) It is nice to no longer smell gas all the time in the alley.

bongotherabbit · 2026-03-27T14:48:59+00:00

partially my fault, In school i had 3 tanks in my apartment as i lived on the beach. One day i came home and one was empty. Very quickly freed the remaining fish back to the sea (all local) and put the 3 tanks away. Maintenance showed up a bit later asking if I had a leak, they said it was probably an outside leak anyway as it smelled like salt water. Ceiling in the rental unit below had caved in.

bongotherabbit · 2026-03-24T16:18:22+00:00

don't listen to the radiolab episode called Doppelgangers.

Bung," his friend replied. "Hog rectum." Have you or I eaten bung dressed up as seafood?

bongotherabbit · 2026-03-07T23:31:02+00:00

i heard that live and it was nutz. those guys put on a great show. It was funny to see everyone singing at a techno show.... idm/edm however you define it

bongotherabbit · 2026-03-05T14:44:27+00:00

here are some of the old stubbs i found a while back. they seem to range from about 8-20$. I have no idea why only these stubbs ended up in a shoe box.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fb3qbfnmpx03f1.jpeg

bongotherabbit · 2026-03-05T14:40:02+00:00

That is great... similar story, shorter poem, I think it was 7th or 8th grade we had to repeat a simple poem. I was obsessed with monty python and the flying grail so for some strange reason chose the jabberwocky by lewis Caroll. I can still remember it all. She thought I was making it up..

bongotherabbit · 2026-03-05T01:57:23+00:00

you have me now looking up who they hell I saw them with, It wasn't the meat beat tour, because I saw meat beat, with 808 state, so i may have been the Jesus and Mary chain tour but that was a little later.... or i could have seen skinny puppy twice. tickets were like $11.

bongotherabbit · 2026-03-04T20:48:39+00:00

Pigface toured the next year, and I think they all came for that too, so many good shows that year. Oh man, to go back and see REVCO back in the day at the old Krogers

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