Even here in Minnesota, we have few dedicated snow plough (plow) trucks. In the summer, they are used for road repair and other works, and then they are converted in October and November with plows on the front and the grit distributors on the back. It just makes money sense to have multipurpose vehicles.
Interesting, but kind of odd that there are no photos or videos.
I’d like to see a cite for that. Over here, they are all plastic.
The wiki on
is interesting. Sounds to me like that twitter tidbit is the usual sensational clickbait. Not strictly false, but 99% BS nonetheless.
This is kinda like the old thumb trick. I didn’t know someone had come up with one of these.
Scroll down the thread. Here’s one.
And here’s another:
Sorry, should have been clearer. I wanted to watch it being “the most terrifying predator on earth.”
Also in the thread.
50 years ago yesterday, Alan Shepard played golf on the moon.
A specially constructed 6-iron was quietly prepared for Shepard and smuggled into the Lunar Module.
Shepard hit the ball six times and wrote a four on his scorecard.
[And you thought the current crop of extremists was bad! Check this out:]
“Anti-Japaneseism” was an ideology held in the early 1970s by some left-wing Japanese radicals.
It held that the Japanese people were so aggressive that they all had to be eliminated.
The radicals planned to take over the South Korean government and, from there, provoke a war with Japan. This was intended to lead to Japan’s defeat and the mass extermination of most of its citizens.
The magic goes away.
Clubfoot did a strange thing for a man making a speech. He darted over to a boulder, heaved at it and turned it over. Underneath was a blob of grayish jelly two feet across. In his youth the Warlock had killed carnivorous goo the 'size of houses. … By contrast this goo was tiny. It was formless and translucent, with darker organs and vacuoles of food showing within its body. … “There! That’s what I’m talking about!” Clubfoot cried. “The goo are surviving, but look at it. … Do you see how small it’s gotten? … When the world is barren of magic the goo will remain, but they’ll probably be too small to see.”
(Larry Niven, 1978)
Now that’s interesting.
I suppose we could posit a similar movement in the USA where the Native American tribes decided to take back all their land, driving the iredeemably genocidal invading White Nation into the sea. Perhaps assisted by the Canadian First Nations doing the same in their historical territories.
The nice part about nursing historical grudges is there’s so much history to pick from and so many grudges to nurse. cf. Serbo-Croatia and the Middle East.
I am reminded of Saint Anthony’s Sermon to the Fish. He was not in favor of fish that fly.
That’s because he was a fish friar.
Was that a Monkfish?
And the ball has only just been found:
I’ve lost a few balls that’ll probably beat that 50 year record mind you.
Ah, you’re thinking of the Chip Monk.
I think I saw that goofy truck/powerboat rig on a pizza commercial, and I thought it was just a mockup for the ad.
[Can’t believe I am just learning this now!:]
Four planets in our solar system – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune – cannot be landed on. The reason is that they have no solid surface.