Gathering rat intel today via fibre optic means. Found nests and highways. Baits laid. There remains a stalwart down there.
Hey do you think after we screw up, the next dominant civilization with be rat derived ? Yeah, I mean huge rats. My punt is on a feudal structure. :-)
My son Peter has his money on cockroaches .....
Cheers, Mike.
My money is on some water based creatures, they are talking about cosmic radiation when traveling to Mars and how to protect the human astronauts and it turns out liquids are a very good insulator. They are talking about storing liquids around strategic areas and even storing the waste products there too until they are recycled. I saw a test thing a while back and they took different kinds of bugs and animals and exposed them to higher and higher levels of radiation and cockroaches are not the most resistant, some other kind of beetle is, but if water is a decent insulator then fish may well outlive us all.
Further work against Rattus rattus proceeds. Installed rat-proof mesh over gaps b/w kitchen cabinets and dry-wall spaces. May they chip a tooth. Or starve for lack of larder access.
{ Just thought of a great apocalypse today. No zombies. A virus. Kills all bar one per thousand people. So worldwide population dives to six million. Extra trap - most survivors are in a narrow age bracket 50 - 60, only one per hundred thousand fertile young women survive ie. only 60,000 remain worldwide eg. a mere 250 in Australia say. Extra sweetener - older survivors will live healthily to 200+ years ( back-story : screwed up lab research into telomere length manipulation plus Three Bears analogy ). Plot tension circulates around locating potential mothers while older group does all hack work after the techno-stack has crumpled down. Our massive metropoli sink into the dirt. Finally mankind has active minds with century long horizons but will we pass through the genetic/demographic pinch ? }
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Further work against Rattus rattus proceeds. Installed rat-proof mesh over gaps b/w kitchen cabinets and dry-wall spaces. May they chip a tooth. Or starve for lack of larder access.
{ Just thought of a great apocalypse today. No zombies. A virus. Kills all bar one per thousand people. So worldwide population dives to six million. Extra trap - most survivors are in a narrow age bracket 50 - 60, only one per hundred thousand fertile young women survive ie. only 60,000 remain worldwide eg. a mere 250 in Australia say. Extra sweetener - older survivors will live healthily to 200+ years ( back-story : screwed up lab research into telomere length manipulation plus Three Bears analogy ). Plot tension circulates around locating potential mothers while older group does all hack work after the techno-stack has crumpled down. Our massive metropoli sink into the dirt. Finally mankind has active minds with century long horizons but will we pass through the genetic/demographic pinch ? }
Cheers, Mike.
Sounds like the end of humanity as we know it and possibly even the end of people, I don't know what the base number of breeding pairs is but that doesn't sound like enough people to rebuild the population. Small groups may survive if they can horde the "breeding females" and keep them "barefoot and pregnant" year after year after year, but that would just create problems of it's own with genetics and diversity.
I had some field mice chewed right thru a metal screen that provided outside air to my fireplace and that's how they got into my house, I ended up getting it bricked in to stop them! Some of those bait blocks that they chew on and then go away and die fixed the problem.
rats take a multi generational view on mesh. first generation pees on it, second generation pees on it, third generation pees on it, fourth generation pushes the rust out of the way.
ps rodent teeth don't stop growing, they must chip them off from time to time.
Mike Hewson wrote:
.... kicks thread lying limp on the floor .....
Further work against Rattus rattus proceeds. Installed rat-proof mesh over gaps b/w kitchen cabinets and dry-wall spaces. May they chip a tooth. Or starve for lack of larder access.
Sold my soul for a swap on this weekend's call roster*, so that I may go to the magic Phillip Island racing circuit. Five hundred km endurance race for my mate Steve in the aforementioned BMW beast. I think I may have discovered a higher level of motor racing fandom. Probably the heady fragrance of Elf racing fuel fumes and/or the smell of money well spent. Alas I haven't been able to bluff my way past the ticketing booth as the 'team doctor' ..... yet .... ahem ! Is my face too honest or what ? ;-))
Cheers, Mike.
* Traded away a second-call slot to gain a first-call slot. In chess that's like yielding a rook to regain a pawn .... but such is the ruthless time-on-call swap market of medicos.
( edit ) Does anyone play chess ? I play my computer. The current program is called 'Fritz 16', of German origin I believe, and plays a mean game at 'Senior Club' level. I win about 20% of the time, draw 40%, and lose 40% but always learn. It has this cool analysis engine which will go through a game and give human readable commentary ie. stuff ups, better variants and opening classification. The last time I was a club player was in my teens, though I really played for enjoyment and socialising. I did a handful of tournaments but it wasn't my type of gig really. I think this mode of intellectual pleasure has been long lost.
( edit ) This is my chess set :
.... made of pure marble, carved out of Elephant Mountain in Vietnam. I use it to mirror the play b/w myself and the computer.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Looks like I'll have euthanase this thread. Gently. Not enough to score on, everyone staying away for fear of catching the bag. Any volunteers to hold a grenade ? :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Looks like I'll have euthanase this thread. Gently. Not enough to score on, everyone staying away for fear of catching the bag. Any volunteers to hold a grenade ? :-)
Gathering rat intel today via
Gathering rat intel today via fibre optic means. Found nests and highways. Baits laid. There remains a stalwart down there.
Hey do you think after we screw up, the next dominant civilization with be rat derived ? Yeah, I mean huge rats. My punt is on a feudal structure. :-)
My son Peter has his money on cockroaches .....
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:Gathering
My money is on some water based creatures, they are talking about cosmic radiation when traveling to Mars and how to protect the human astronauts and it turns out liquids are a very good insulator. They are talking about storing liquids around strategic areas and even storing the waste products there too until they are recycled. I saw a test thing a while back and they took different kinds of bugs and animals and exposed them to higher and higher levels of radiation and cockroaches are not the most resistant, some other kind of beetle is, but if water is a decent insulator then fish may well outlive us all.
.... kicks thread lying limp
.... kicks thread lying limp on the floor .....
Further work against Rattus rattus proceeds. Installed rat-proof mesh over gaps b/w kitchen cabinets and dry-wall spaces. May they chip a tooth. Or starve for lack of larder access.
{ Just thought of a great apocalypse today. No zombies. A virus. Kills all bar one per thousand people. So worldwide population dives to six million. Extra trap - most survivors are in a narrow age bracket 50 - 60, only one per hundred thousand fertile young women survive ie. only 60,000 remain worldwide eg. a mere 250 in Australia say. Extra sweetener - older survivors will live healthily to 200+ years ( back-story : screwed up lab research into telomere length manipulation plus Three Bears analogy ). Plot tension circulates around locating potential mothers while older group does all hack work after the techno-stack has crumpled down. Our massive metropoli sink into the dirt. Finally mankind has active minds with century long horizons but will we pass through the genetic/demographic pinch ? }
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:.... kicks
Sounds like the end of humanity as we know it and possibly even the end of people, I don't know what the base number of breeding pairs is but that doesn't sound like enough people to rebuild the population. Small groups may survive if they can horde the "breeding females" and keep them "barefoot and pregnant" year after year after year, but that would just create problems of it's own with genetics and diversity.
I had some field mice chewed right thru a metal screen that provided outside air to my fireplace and that's how they got into my house, I ended up getting it bricked in to stop them! Some of those bait blocks that they chew on and then go away and die fixed the problem.
rats take a multi
rats take a multi generational view on mesh. first generation pees on it, second generation pees on it, third generation pees on it, fourth generation pushes the rust out of the way.
ps rodent teeth don't stop growing, they must chip them off from time to time.
Two more baits taken. No
Two more baits taken. No signs of ingress for 48 hours ....
Cheers, Head Ratcatcher.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:Two more
Woo Hoo!!!
Sold my soul for a swap on
Sold my soul for a swap on this weekend's call roster*, so that I may go to the magic Phillip Island racing circuit. Five hundred km endurance race for my mate Steve in the aforementioned BMW beast. I think I may have discovered a higher level of motor racing fandom. Probably the heady fragrance of Elf racing fuel fumes and/or the smell of money well spent. Alas I haven't been able to bluff my way past the ticketing booth as the 'team doctor' ..... yet .... ahem ! Is my face too honest or what ? ;-))
Cheers, Mike.
* Traded away a second-call slot to gain a first-call slot. In chess that's like yielding a rook to regain a pawn .... but such is the ruthless time-on-call swap market of medicos.
( edit ) Does anyone play chess ? I play my computer. The current program is called 'Fritz 16', of German origin I believe, and plays a mean game at 'Senior Club' level. I win about 20% of the time, draw 40%, and lose 40% but always learn. It has this cool analysis engine which will go through a game and give human readable commentary ie. stuff ups, better variants and opening classification. The last time I was a club player was in my teens, though I really played for enjoyment and socialising. I did a handful of tournaments but it wasn't my type of gig really. I think this mode of intellectual pleasure has been long lost.
( edit ) This is my chess set :
.... made of pure marble, carved out of Elephant Mountain in Vietnam. I use it to mirror the play b/w myself and the computer.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Looks like I'll have
Looks like I'll have euthanase this thread. Gently. Not enough to score on, everyone staying away for fear of catching the bag. Any volunteers to hold a grenade ? :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:Looks like
Squeak, squeak?
Err, I mean Ribbit?
Seti Classic Final Total: 11446 WU.