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All I can find is with a k; will that work? Got the spinach in and some beets and working on the squash. Below is panorama of main garden space that I share. Raspberries on left are starting to leaf out. I took the cold frame apart as the plastic was getting brittle & it gave us some more space. The shrubby plant left is Rosemary and the Rhubarb is just a little right of that. If Mother Nature spurns my early go...well, I'll just sweet talk her and give her that little ear nibble that she likes.

I think that's right. I like it when my food bites back a little, but I often hear folks complain that rhubarb is too tart. All this talk has me in the mood to get away from this keyboard and go put some more seeds in. I think I'll put some spinach in the ground and some squash in the greenhouse pots. Mmmm mmmmm! Any idea where I can get some custard seed?

Rhubarb crumble!! I'm going to suggest that to the cook. She's been mixing it with other fruits and making jams. I haven't heard ours growing, but it gives little screams when you pull the stalks. :0 edit grammar

Interesting. Is this something you do?

Extremis? I've read of covering celery to keep it light in color, but we haven't tried growing celery. What do you cover the rhubarb with and what is the advantage? Last year there was more than we could use, but any good tips are much appreciated. Have you started your garden this year?

Well, the rhubarb started up and on the idea it knows what it's doing I put up the greenhouse & planted a couple tomato varieties and jalepenos. Outside I planted peas and radishes. No Brussels sprouts this year after 2 years of trying and a whole lotta Brussel and no sprouts. How 'bout the rest of you?

No worries. My numerologist said I would misunderstand things today.

Well, I was giving a simple answer to a simple question and I'm not much for getting into word wrangling. I'll close with a paraphrase. I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description "pseudo-science", and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so, but I know it when I see it. source

Hollow Earth Theory Hydro-Plate Theory Phrenology Polygraphy

Hearing range

With respect, you are referring to subjective perception. Bats can hear higher frequencies than we, but their neural signals are mammalian like ours. By the same token elephants and whales can hear lower frequencies than humans and they too are mammals. Hearing and sound are entirely perception concepts related to creatures and entirely distinct from vibrational qualities and concepts. Things sound to us as things sound to us and that's just the way it is.

You can no more know what something 'sounds like' to a cat then you can know what something 'sounds like' to me. The perception is dependent on the perceiver, not on the phenomena perceived.

Roger rhetorical question; proceeding to not answer. As to the rest, yes the perception of tonal character etcetera is dependent on our nervous system and yes cats [undoubtedly] hear differently. Even humans hear differently among individuals and as hearing is a function of our bodies then aspects of our bodies affect what we hear. This includes -but is not limited to- the speed at which nerves conduct impulses.

I'm not going to argue with you. You asked your philosophical question and I gave you my philosophical answer.

It begins in the end. Oroboro

What 'contributes' to the speed of sound is the medium in which it propagates. The frequency is a function of how fast the vibration is that initiates the sound. If we suffer any lost information in hearing, it is in the frequencies and amplitudes that our ear is not responsive to.

You gave a link to Turtle Lake Monster. Swing, swang, swung. As I'm not interested in playing word games, I'll leave you and the others to the discussion.

I'll have to find Scippo Creek on a map as some of my ancestors settled parts of Ohio around the time(s) of the alleged reports. Be that as it may, you seem to have swung back to monsters and the suggestion that 100+ year old reports are sufficient reason to look for them. Well, it's on topic I suppose. . PS Nope; Scippo Creek is central Ohio & my kin were in Elyria & North Ridgeville up North.

Fair enough. But as the OP makes it clear this thread is about monsters, your salamanders are guilty by association. The doctored still on your vid only adds to such guilt as I'm sure you can see and agree. Any chance you could provide some sources for the reports you have mentioned? On a final note, maybe you could start a non-monster cryptid thread that reflects your true interest.

A big MEH. By posting the salamander video and other such comments you made you are suggesting there's something real to be investigated in such 'reports'. Bunch of damn nonsense and I'm with Phi when he said: Not only that aspect, but the popularized cryptid crap is demeaning to scientists and the scientific method. Par for this course though I suppose if 90% of the threads on this forum are any indication. Good grief.

Erhm...but...well, you are suggesting they are real. The Wiki page on the salamanders I linked to gave 4.7 feet as the max size, which you then after commented '5 to 6 feet'. On the other hand, you first said 10 feet in Ohio but then the 5 to 6 feet. ?? In any case, they are not the same rank of cryptid as Sasquatch and that ilk inasmuch as no one questions extant giant salamanders.

... I wonder why you call it 'not even pseudo science'. ... Perhaps he was making a play on the phrase 'not even wrong'. If so, arguably it's redundant. Forgive my impudence is so responding; Uranus is on my cusp.

Take the rock to the geology dept. of a local college. The professor will be familiar with local rocks and may find it an interesting challenge for students to try & ID it.

The cover picture on your UTube video is a mash-up. Cryptobranchidae grow 'only' to around 5ft. Your anecdote of "10' or so lizards" in Ohio is unreliable to say the least. I'm with the sentiment expressed several times here to reserve our amazement & investigational energies for verifiable life. Largest Living Organism: Fungus Armillaria ostoyae Maybe this is what Sasquatch eats.

Your reading comprehension is abysmal. I wrote "... peoples' feelings that the Sun's magnetic field drags ...". That's "peoples'", not Blobbity's. Ant Sinclair expressed the notion early on and while not of this thread it is the similar notion expressed by Arc in his ongoing unsupported opinion on plate tectonics elsewhere. Imatfaal can respond -or not- as to whether you satisfied his demand. All-inall, your contributions to this thread are not worth the virtual ink they are keyed with and serve only to stir up the muds.