Activity for Joe
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edit | Post #41914 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #40369 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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To locals without a tide chart, how surprising are tides? People have put a lot of work into predicting tides. To a local, who knows the conditions of a certain area, are tide tables really necessary? How surprising are the tides ever going to be to someone who's been sailing the same bay for decades? (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Water filter that handles mercury? Is there any camping water filter that handles mercury in the water? I live in an area with lots of cinnabar (mercury ore), so all the streams have some mercury content. According to the local water authorities, the lake in the area has: mercury up to 35 ppb methylmercury up to 10 ppb (more) |
— | about 10 years ago |
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How do you go upriver in a canoe? Let's say you want to be a voyageur, canoeing on a river like the North Saskatchewan. (We'll leave aside the current state of the beaver pelt industry.) What do you have to do differently to travel upriver, rather than down? Is there any particular equipment that's more useful when traveling upriv... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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How can I contact emergency services in the US via the internet? At this very moment, I'm out in the woods typing away on my laptop. I have an internet connection, and my phone can use that connection to send text messages, but I have no voice phone service. How can I contact emergency services from here? I'm in the United States (San Jose, specifically¹),... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |