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What John T said. Verizon just kicked off a free spam identifier service which seems to be working well. The best thing is if the damned congress could quit blathering about impeachment and pass the NO SPAM bill stuck in committee.

Re: Man Made Global COOLING?! Mmmm... Getting turned into Soylent green and then getting your liquid bits flushed down the toilet or sprayed as fertilizer, while your bone bits are returned. Novel concept there Len. I encourage those interested to pursue it.

DD is right! Much less work and you can get the materials delivered for a reasonable fee. Set-up is far easier and the work goes far faster. Make sure you have a couple friends who work for BBQ and have a couple bottles of ibuprofen handy. :)

I have done some masonry work and I have learned a lot by watching people who claim to be professionals yet repeatedly do a poor job. Block is doable but, it's a fair amount of work if done right. IF you decide to do block, there are a boatload of good videos online to show you how to set...

Two voices that speak of experience. I knew that when I built this new shop so I only had one work bench with the other actually a "platform" to hold smaller machines. Problem is, they all produce dust, chunkules, shavings, or spooge. Keeping clean between them is easier if you can do it...

Just found this on the original Titan I missile system. New info I did not know and in the 4th installment, the tour underground is mind blowing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeJjxu2p8BA

Brother Skeets, Not sure what those would have been. Might have been an Atlas. Those sites were smaller and the site was relatively "soft" with the missile laying horizontal under a thin metal door. The Atlas had little structural strength and relied on nitrogen pressure to keep it inflated...

Re: Man Made Global COOLING?! Len, What's the turning radius of that thing? Lol...

In the late 80's, our '74 models were the newest Herks in operation. The E-Models were early 60's airframes that had seen really hard duty their whole life. When the Herk was first put into service, people thought they were indestructible. They quickly found out that was not true. I drink...

Ran across this idea and it has joined my list of quickie projects that will prove handy in the future. I am going to fab up a couple using rebar, which should be heavy enough. I don't weld aluminum but I can arc stainless and like he said, magnets are not always the easiest to place, especially...

H-Models out of lovely Dyess, TX. We had some great guys in the Herk world. The whole crew would work together to get the mission complete. Not a lot of room for egos. Guys lived and died by their hands. No covering for bad hands. The C-130 was the most dangerous aircraft I ever flew, and that...

Len, That is what blew me away. The craftsmanship on those facilities was amazing. The concrete finishing was superb. Not a crack, even today. And as I mentioned earlier, everything hung from the wall or ceiling. Including the floors of the command center and the missile. The idea was to shock...

My last house was on a steep ridge line with the street right along the top of the ridge. The driveway was steep off the street and if you missed it, you could easily roll to the bottom of the canyon, a good 200+ feet. At night, finding that driveway was tough. I bought the nice fiberglass...

Mic, I left because I got selected for flight training. They announced the close-down a couple years after I left. The mechanical items in the site worked nearly flawlessly for the 20+ years they were operational. I mentioned the killer diesel generators (hung from the ceiling) but sadly, I...

I actually enjoyed it because I hoped to use it as a stepping stone to flying. I was only there two years before heading to Willy. Given the choice between Titan and Minuteman, at least I could see my missile: It lived down the hallway. Minuteman crews were a minimum of ten miles from their...

Sean, Great story. So 60's, like something off the "Wonder Years." LOL...

Someone has put a really interesting series together on the Titan missile system spread through three states: Arizona, Kansas, and Arkansas. For you tech geeks like me, this is an amazing construction effort using materials meant to withstand an atomic blast. The silo closure door alone took...

Re: Man Made Global COOLING?! However, when 99% of all climate scientist agree that we have an impending climate crisis, I would err on the side of believing them. Problem is, 99% of the scientific community does not believe that. But, that number is constantly bandied about. True science is...

Re: Man Made Global COOLING?! Authored by Walter Williams, op-ed via Townhall.com, The absolute worst case of professional incompetence and dishonesty is in the area of climate science. Tony Heller has exposed some of the egregious dishonesty of mainstream environmentalists in a video he's...

My barn gets down to 45 overnight inside in January and February here in Arizona. My only "safe" heater is a hot Kubota. I have one of those propane element heaters but they put off monoxide. Not good. I bought a fuel oil heater but they put off slightly less monoxide as well. I just dress up in...