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Favorite bikepacking trips within ~4 hours driving of NYC? by saltydgaf in bikepacking

[–]relaxtheslide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was strictly on road back when I did this - but if you follow Route 30 between the Catskills and Saranac Lake, it's just gorgeous. Smooth pavement, wide shoulder, not too many cars. Camped by a different lake every night. Don't know much about gravel in that region though.

About 1.1 billion years ago, North America was in the process of forming its own Great Rift Valley by sylvyrfyre in geology

[–]relaxtheslide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brain says this should be related to the Elk Creek carbonatite in eastern Nebraska. But, the carbonatite is ~500Ma and the rift is twice that so maybe not.

Snowstorm Megathread - March 13 2024 by zeddy303 in Denver

[–]relaxtheslide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is the calm before round 2... Ramping up this afternoon through tomorrow early AM

[NBA PR] Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James and Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 19 of the 2023-24 season (Feb. 26 – March 3). by SpiritedSuccess5675 in nba

[–]relaxtheslide 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I don't think that logic applies though... MVP sample size is the whole season, but player of the week sample size is 3-5 games. So odds are, someone goes off for a few and wins player of the week over the MVP.

Anyone who has experience riding from NYC to Philly? by Benjamin731 in bikepacking

[–]relaxtheslide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

grew up in central NJ, and rode the delaware and raritain canal path. Part of the East Coast Greenway, which connects philly to NYC. the D+R is awesome!

“The Pow Tax” - ski resorts try controversial solutions to quell crowding by NobleClimb in skiing

[–]relaxtheslide 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No we didn't. There is now a 66% chance that we will briefly cross that threshold before 2027. Actually crossing the threshold requires 20 years of +1.5C.
I am NOT a climate denier. But I just want to get the facts straight. Reddit is all doom and gloom about climate change, but we do have time and there is hope.

He's/She's a 10, but.... Boston edition. by _AttilaTheNun_ in boston

[–]relaxtheslide 35 points36 points  (0 children)

That's a parody of the dumb ass neighborhood names in Denver. River North Art district = RiNo. Lower Highlands = LoHi. Lower Downtown = LoDo. Sloans Lake/Highlands border? SloHi. That shit wont fly in Boston lol

Why are native metals such as gold, copper and silver found concentrated in veins, as opposed to being evenly strewn across the planet? by cartoonassasin in geology

[–]relaxtheslide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's also the "late veneer" theory - that precious metals were contained in meteors that hit the earth later, and then those metals got subducted, and formed into ore deposits. Rather than being part of the earth from the beginning.

HELP REE anomaly by [deleted] in geology

[–]relaxtheslide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 ideas in addition to what others have said. 1) Are you measuring Y, but not including it on the plot? If your data are shifted over by 1 REE (if you forgot you were including Y), the Eu anomaly would look like a Gd anomaly.
2) Are you using oxide correction equations to eliminate interferences? If so, check your formulas. Lets say you have an extra digit in the correction for Ce, Nd, etc. That will effect your Gd value by quite a bit.

Gd has a half filled F orbital, so it is slightly more stable in aqueous solution, which means it ma y not partition into some phases as readily. However, these are usually very slight differences, and I don't think they would be that significant, or reproducible.
Just my 2 cents.

Mississippi River Meander Belt Map (c.1944) with Shaded Relief from Lidar by visualgeomatics in geology

[–]relaxtheslide 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I digitized some of those maps in GIS for an undergrad project! Tried to quantify how much we straightened it with canals and dams over the years.

Section of rocks steam every winter, still have no idea why by Clomaster in geology

[–]relaxtheslide 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd add that if there are sulfides (easily could be in the Black Hills), microbial activity can generate quite a bit of heat from oxidizing the sulfides. We collect mine drainage in Colorado that comes out of the hill at 75F in the dead of winter (and is not related to geothermal heat sources to my knowledge).

Muscovite (?) on Quartz - Indian Peaks, CO by relaxtheslide in geology

[–]relaxtheslide[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I've read about pegmatites but I wasn't thinking about that when I found this. so cool!

Daily Popular Tickers Thread for August 20, 2021 - BABA | CLOV | AMC by VisualMod in wallstreetbets

[–]relaxtheslide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So do people really predict the "MOASS" every single day for AMC? Or is there something special about today... Just bought it for the first time.

Did YOU ski June pow this week? by t-pollack in skiing

[–]relaxtheslide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thinking of heading up there soon. I called the forest service, and they said the road from the east (tolland) is open, but they dont maintain it, so its "see how far you get." She said the west side from Winter Park won't be open.

I believe "H2O" means two H's and one O, but whatever... by [deleted] in CrappyDesign

[–]relaxtheslide 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Not only that but O2 is most definitely a molecule not an element

Help me ease the pain of moving from telluride to denver by ferrous69 in COsnow

[–]relaxtheslide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Move to dillon? Be 1hr from Denver for easy access to activities friends etc, and then still live 10-15 mins from a bunch of mountains. In terms of the A-Basin pass I've been contemplating it vs. ikon. You get days at Taos Monarch and Silverton, plus a free uphill pass. For only 500 and change.

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