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I would think a couple mechanics could take one apart and end up with pieces small enough to be carried and/or winched up with a simple derrick. Given the cost of these machines I can't imagine leaving them is a savings.

Indeed they do hoard & eat worms. However, mole holes & mounds are much larger than what you have and they make horizontal tunnels as well that raise ground in lines. The mounds are usually offset from the tunnels are used to get rid of excess soil. They hunt the worms underground as the worms descend and emerge through the top of the tunnels. Voles make similar horizontal tunnels, though they eat plant roots. They may also use existing mole tunnels. but even though they are small their tunnels are larger than your holes. Oregon Vole You can also cause worms to emerge using electric current, though this should not be house current due to the severe electrocution hazard. An electric fence generator as used for livestock might work well.

Indeed. Someone might not hear the trees for the forest.

Curiosity can take video but usually doesn't because of the limited transfer rate and because little to nothing is moving on Mars. See this: >> Video: NASA Gives a Tour of the Cameras on the Mars Curiosity Rover And this: >> Why does the $2.5 billion Curiosity use a 2-megapixel camera? NASA doesn't hide raw images; you can see them here: >> Curiosity raw images

Erhm...that's persnickety. Trees never fall in woods unless someone is there to witness them. Prove me wrong.

A happy new Gregorian year back at ya Señor Butt Monkey. Oh...and to the rest of you junior butt monkeys too.

Good job on the diggage. Agree it doesn't look like frost heave down there. There won't be that many worms in that soil. Each pile might be near a breeding pair ?? Agreed on the number of wormies. If not a pairing division then perhaps a territorial one. Do wormies fight? Maybe if they do, Arc will get a picture of it. Put up your duke! :omg: I'll look into that model. Acknowledged that time lapse by frame not same as movies. For the wormy scenario I think movies would be better on account of the slow movement of the critters and [presumed] periodicity of activity. Do the wormies all come up at once, or do they take turns? Also, with the movie you have the option later to edit out inactive times while with the still frames you can't add back in activity missed while the camera isn't recording. I went out a few times with a guy who made a job of hunting worms to sell to fishermen. He would go at night and with a dimmed headlamp on his head and a big can in one hand, he would crawl on his belly across the ground (grass covered parks and school grounds) grabbing the worms and pulling them out of their holes. This may bear on the distances between holes Arc has as the worms we hunted would only emerge partly from the hole and if we made too much noise or the light was too bright they would quickly -yes quickly- shoot down the hole out of sight. The guy could fill a 3lb coffee can in a couple hours and I had never seen anything like it.

The trick then is to not quote a large body of text. A wall of text is as a wall of text does. If [royal] you need to address multiple points from a post then you can break up the quotes and address each point with a reply. Instead of typing in

Baching the den.

I don't know if it's XRumer causing the problem with WebShield in the OP or not; I was...erhm...speculating, yeah speculating. (Sounds better than wild ass guessing don't it?) I do know XRumertest is here because I have been seeing it as logged in at the 'Show Registered Only' who's online list. >> http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/87156-sand-making-machine-makes-great-contributions-to-sand-production-line/When it's there it is grayed and you can't get to a profile the same as when a banned member logs in but can't do anything. Whatever it's doing it can't be good for the board. I reported it to an Admin but got no reply so can't say if it matters or any action was taken. My suggestion was to delete it as a member. As to malware, well it's often bootjacked (or is that shoehorned? Hat-banded?) into spam. Any port in a storm. (Any gird in a loin?)

Could it have to do with XRumerTest? I see 'it' logged in lately as a member even though 'it' has been banned and I have read that 'it' is a bootjack to spam & viruses. XRumer Note that I am not really familiar with this stuff, I just pretend to be when the mood strikes me. . PS Speak of the devil, this just bumped this thread: http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/87156-sand-making-machine-makes-great-contributions-to-sand-production-line/

Yeah sure; whatever you say.

[membertip]Damn you staffers can be obtuse. The taboo topic in that thread -which Overtone referred to here [now] was GMos. He was told:[membertip] [membertip]Moreover, he didn't bring up the quote thing either; that was Imatfaal here:[membertip] [membertip]Now I get that Overtone has his moments, [who me? ] but it would be nice to see the actual issues addressed in the proper place/time.. If y'all were serious about going after the quote thing then I would expect to see mod notes admonishing John Cuthber's posts. (Sorry John, but you know I have addressed you directly already about this. ;-) ) Let's see some consistency so that everyone can play on a fair field. This business of inserting moderator comments and then forbidding comment just doesn't fly; it's hypocritical. I think a better way for mods to address problems is to send a PM with the problem material quoted and specific issues pointed out. Lecturing/scolding Mod notes derail threads as much if not more than failure to use quotes.[membertip]

Which would cease the instant gravity did.

Sooooo... since gravity won't seize this is all rather a load of stuff that doesn't hang together and belongs in the won't-hang-together section. Nevertheless, if gravity suddenly ceased to seize with everything as it is, then I agree with the OP about everything coming apart. Not 'falling' apart as stated however on account of things only fall because of gravity. I disagree that planets would stop spinning or that stars would explode however. Seems to me they would simply start to fly apart. Stars wouldn't explode because explosions require not just combustion but containment for pressure to build. No gravity, no containing pressure and the star would just sort of dissolve in flammage as the rotational momemtum spews the bits out. Planets would similarly dissolve sans flammage. Bits would collide of course as their trajectories intersect and depending on the velocities of the bits they could make like meteors and burn or just carom off in other directions. After some suitable time the universe would be a more-or-less homogenous dust doink behaving more-or-less like a gas gonk. (note that 'doinks' & 'gonks' are technical terms that apply only to ceased-to-seize gravigoverses.)

I think the forbidden issue Overtome was referring to was GMO's; not the issue of ref-using the quote function. IIRC we have a thread already on using the quote function that one of the mods started. Yes; here it is: Quotes Rule?

Seems I didn't check well enough. Plenty of heave to have. The round-spot-piling effect only develops after repeated cycles of freeze & thaw and we haven't had sufficient cycles to form piles. Instead, the heave is more or less all over. In more compact areas the heave has simply sorted pebbles to the top and not created much in the way of cavities, but I found an area in a hole that had collected blown in detritus and found some nice ice columns and cavities with large plates of material frozen together and lifted. My thinking in regard to your needles Arc was that over repeated freeze/thaw cycles the heavier ends of the needles would fall into cavities during thaws with the same cycling sorting the needles toward a locus. Anyway, I grabbed a photo as promised and have it below. The ice columns are ~3/4" high. Overnight low was 29ºF and currently 33ºF. . PS Re-reading your original post and seeing that this has been going on over 10 years I am inclined to swing back toward frost heave as the cause. Did you go out and inspect this morn Arc? . PPS Realized I just passed the 3-year mark here. Heaven help us all. Actually came back to add something to the needle sorting idea in regards to the frost heave. Once a single needle gets upright it will serve as a catching point for the horizontal needles blown about in the wind.

Good idea! I used to have a Sony video cam that had a setting called 'Interval Recording'. It used a tape and allowed you to choose from several settings of intervals between recording and several settings for how long to record. (I was using it to record meteors.) When it went kaflooey from over-use I got a new Sony cam that has a hard drive which allows me to record continuously for up to 10 hours. It also has 2 infrared settings which might be handy for catching those night-crawling wormies. I checked my garden and no frost heave piles. Sorry for no pics.

Guten nacht. Yes, I should be asleep. Damnable games!! So read your link Arc and now thinking you may be right about it being worms. The frost heave piles I had were more closely spaced than your piles, so I'm doubting that a bit on that evidence. You might try digging up a patch and looking for worms. You could also paint the upper tips of some of the needles already upright in one of the piles and watch to see if they move down and/or disappear. As always, if you or any of your team are caught or killed the secratery will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck Arc. PS Ants?

I don't understand. ?? I am not referring to worm piles. Frost heave has nothing to do with animals; it is a purely mechanical process. Your pictures look like what I have observed. Check in the morning anyway and I will check my garden too. I'm in a different location than when I had frost heave piles so I'm not sure what I will find, but if I see some I will get photos. If you have a video camera you can set it up next to the piles and see what develops.

If you have been having cycles of freezing weather it may be frost heave. PS IIRC you're right across the river from me so I know you have had some freeze cycles. I regulary observe this phenom in my garden, sans the needles. It's freezing tonight (30ºF right now) so get up early and go out & look for ice crystals in your little piles. . Addendum: I used to have pictures that I took but just searched and they're nowhere to be found. This one from Wiki will have to suffice.

That's profound. You'll fit right in with the hatters in the math section.

Yes. No. What obviously isn't true? This number is Prime: 92adeh4gbc4hb9dhg065ae0d20d1egc55644ee9ic3dghi6b816af76f3d5dhb7619 What's your plain & straightforward rule for the number I just gave? I would also point out that your earlier question is a further example of your innumeracy. You confuse numeral with number when asking about ending digits base ten. The last digit base ten is just the remainder mod 10. It is also the same issue as far as 6x+1 & 6x+5 primes are concerned, which is another oft cited feature of primes. Of necessity primes must have a remainder when divided by anything, but this tells you nothing about which next number will be prime or what its remainder will be mod x.