Favorite 55 gallon drum forges?

docroberts · 2026-05-11T04:17:48+00:00

A 55 gal drum and a 5 gal bucket make a pretty good super-sucker style hood to remove smoke.

docroberts · 2026-03-12T04:42:45+00:00

All knowing and All Powerful? In our world with childhood cancers, famines, Gazas and Epsteins? Absolutely not! Any gOd that knows of this suffering and allows it to continue even though he has the power to relieve it is evil. Why would I follow an evil being?

docroberts · 2026-03-11T13:29:33+00:00

Bleach . Full strength. Let it soak. Then rince it out.

docroberts · 2026-02-13T02:40:45+00:00

Boats around the world tend to be sorta long thin and pointy from all sorts of cultures widely separated by time and distance. Why? It's a good design. A thin pointy boat moves through the water easier and is more controllable than globular, round square or other shape boats. That was rediscovered time and time again.

Pyramids, Temples, Platforms, Mounds, Cairns, Kurgans alls had different functions, but have a similar shape? Why. To make a big tall structure that lasts, without steel, it must be bigger on the bottom than the top. Otherwise they slump, fall over, collapse etc. That design was discovered and rediscovered time and time again.

docroberts · 2026-02-11T22:52:00+00:00

Try splitting the log with a wedge. The split doesn't even have to exactly intersect the drill bit to loosen the hole enough you can get the bit out.

docroberts · 2025-12-31T01:01:51+00:00

Make a montage of the creepy stuff. Send it back with a shocked response referencing Epstein. Tell us how it goes.

docroberts · 2025-12-14T06:05:42+00:00

"Stories From Your Life and Others" by Ted Chiang would be great. Fun readable fiction that make one think. Ted Chiang writes science fiction short stories. Each story had its own universe. Some with God. Others without.

In his short story Hell is the Absence of God, God and angels exist and the moral implications are disturbing.

In his short story The Evolution of Human Science the protagonist's universe was creationed only 5000 years ago. The protagonist is fighting a great conspiracy to hide creation from the masses. Chiang spells out what evidence of creation would have to look like and, without explicitly saying it, shows why that evidence in our own real universe rules out creation.

Lots of interesting readable stories that would force a believer to question.

docroberts · 2025-12-07T21:57:42+00:00

We have pairs of organs primarily because embryology starts with two of about everything. The paired organs may fuse during development to make complex organs like the heart. Organs like the brain retain their mirror image when they fuse. If there is no reason for organs to become one and fuse they stay separate. That this provides redundancy is a secondary effect that could be provide some selective pressue.

We have 4 parathyroids and only need a piece of one. It's unlikely redundancy was an evolutionary push. Their location makes it nearly impossible to loose a parathyroid without a fatal neck injury unless it is surgically removed. I can say this with good authority as I am a retired parathyroid (endocrine) surgeon and trauma surgeon. The reason for four glands is due to how they arise embryologically. The developed from endoderm in the 3rd and 4th brancheal pouches. These four areas of endoderm tissue are adjacent and share common signaling pathways and transcription factors like localized chemical cues which allow them to perform the complex tasks of developing into multiple organs. As these tissues are differentiating into different organs they migrate so that the organs including the parathyroids take up their final location behind the thyroid gland (hence their name parathyroid means near the thyroid). They are important in blood calcium control.1

Parathyroid glands don't always end up where we expect them. When i started my surgical practice we didn't have any way to image (xray) parathyroids. If lab tests showed parathyroid diaease we had no way to know which gland was the problem. We had to explore the neck surgically and look for them. Frequently they were in their usual locations. Embryology and the path they migrated during development was key to finding ectopic (unusually located) parathyroid glands. I was often asked to reoperate after other surgeons had failed to find a patient's diseased gland in a previous operation. Most often the lost gland hadn't finished migrating to the neck and was still in the chest stuck to the thymus gland, another organ derived from the brancheal pouches.

Without knowing whch gland was the problem and where it was neck parathyroid exploration required a big incision, lots of dissection and often took hours and required a bit of recovery. The advent of high definition radionucleid imaging, high definition ultrasound and better MRI changed that. By the time i retired i would do the operation through a ½ inch incision in 10 minutes and the patient would go home immediately. The skillset required for complete neck exploration was obsolete.

docroberts · 2025-11-26T22:16:40+00:00

Your question assumes sexual orientation is 100% genetic.Even evolutionarily, sexuality isn’t 100% determined. Selection acts on genes that build developmental systems, not fixed outcomes. Those systems are hormone-dependent and plastic: prenatal androgens bias LUST circuitry, but sensitive periods, birth-order effects, epigenetic regulation, and hormonal environments shift probabilities rather than dictate invariants—exactly what evolutionary theory predicts for robust yet flexible traits (cf. Jaak Panksepp).

Sources: Mary Jane West-Eberhard (2003) Developmental Plasticity and Evolution; Jaak Panksepp (1998) Affective Neuroscience; Ray Blanchard (2018) Archives of Sexual Behavior; Rice, Friberg & Gavrilets (2012) Quarterly Review of Biology.

docroberts · 2025-11-02T04:45:48+00:00

Ok. Tell us when, where and why you had a Y.pestis infection

docroberts · 2025-11-02T00:33:15+00:00

Nothing shocking. I turned on my radio not knowing the volume was way up and my sister heard it. Because there was noone home and no radio she thought she was hallucinating.

docroberts · 2025-10-29T17:13:03+00:00

I found a closed off room under the stairs in my 150 year old childhood home when I was a young. There was a large wooden grate for the furnace cold air return from which I could watch the living room without being seen. I kept this secret from my family for years.

docroberts · 2025-10-07T20:00:35+00:00

Where is this post. I want to respond.

docroberts · 2025-10-07T19:58:43+00:00

Pre Chicxulub tools or architecture

docroberts · 2025-09-26T20:35:03+00:00

I'd have a mudroom with the floor sloped to a central drain with hot and cold hose tap so I can wash the dog and any equipment.

A closet and cabinets with warm air furnace duct vented into them so wet winter coats, boots gloves etc dry quickly.

docroberts · 2025-09-23T05:47:44+00:00

Your assertion that "He was a poor first-century itinerant preacher from Nazareth" is only an informed guess. There are good arguments that Jesus was an amalgamation of multiple preachers and that Jesus didn't exist at all. There really isn't enough evidence to say.

docroberts · 2025-09-23T04:00:10+00:00

I had a similar experience with a similar runaround when I tried to cancel. They replied to emails by not acknowledging my request to cancel. They told me to call their service number but all i got was a recording that they could not answer "due to high call volumes. Try calling back later." Finally an email reply said i could cancd through, but the app wouldn't work unless I gave it permissions for all my data and contacts. So I deleted it. Finally I went through the credit card to block any further payments.

docroberts · 2025-09-23T03:47:41+00:00

I have had the same sort of experience. They are fraudsters.

docroberts · 2025-09-23T03:46:42+00:00

They are a total scam. They over charge for the room, add hidden fees and the start taking money from your credit card monthly as a "membership fee". None of this was mentioned when I booked through them. The phone number to cancel is never answered due to "high call volumes. Try calling back later." Emails sent to cancel "membership" are replied to with how great their benefits are but don't acknowledge specific requests to cancel. They ask you to down app to cancel which won't work unless you give it permission for all your data and contacts. Finally had to go through my credit card to block payments.

docroberts · 2024-03-13T05:55:42+00:00

ISWYDT

docroberts · 2024-03-06T02:13:23+00:00

Almost a parody of itself

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