Wow thanks for that had to look that up...discovered in 1996 right?

@Willthamaven -- That's the one. It was a lucky find, too.

@evidentialist You have one? Do you have a picture?

@BlueWave -- I wish I did. The thing is worth a small fortune to a collector. I have several chunks of stuff from space, but they're all from our solar system. To the best of my knowledge there is only one small piece of Hypatia stone in the world. It's origin is so far unknown, but it is most likely something interstellar.

I'll see if I can find a picture of it.

Okay, found one and am posting it in my post above -- if I can. There are apparently 3 pieces of the stone.

By the way, nice ride. I had to give up bikes a few years ago. I was devastated.

@evidentialist Thanks! I keep hoping I have a few more years left. Every creak in a joint scares me.

Very cool! Thanks!

@tsjames They don't like to be touched, either. Not the friendliest creatures in the world. Luckily, they don't usually bother to try to escape since they're too busy bossing all the other animals around.

Think i got you on this one my friend...i knew that. Thanks for responding you're wonderful i thought they were to be mean tho...am i wrong?

@Willthamaven People buy them to protect their livestock, but I think small donkeys are more effective for the coywolf hybrids common now in the east. Still, we bought Cuzco to use for packing stuff on the Appalachian Trail. But once I saw how disloyal he was, I sold him. But soon afterward, a small, runaway mule escaped his barn and ran three miles up the road to break into the pasture to be with our 40 yr old retired racking horse, Whistle. That mule protected the rest of the livestock until Whistle's death, then he stood guard over the grave, braying sadly, so I sold him to a grateful person who wanted him to guard her horses.

Interesting...are u talking about Green Sahara?

@Willthamaven that was part of it but about 1000 years ago a large earthquake dropped Alexandria into the Mediterranean and diverted the Nile ninety miles at that point.

Lol give Bella that rub...

@Willthamaven Bella has to have that rub before the smell of victory in the morning... Cindy just want to go outside, Mia ask how cold is it? Before coming out from under the blanket. 3 spoiled chihuahuas. And their slave servant.

Lol

Source(s): Hodgdon. The .30-30 Winchester/.30 Winchester Center Fire (7.8×51mmR) cartridge was first marketed in early 1895 for the Winchester Model 1894 lever-action rifle. The .30-30 (thirty-thirty), as it is most commonly known, was the USA's first small-bore, sporting rifle cartridge designed for smokeless powder. It is a CARTRIDGE for a Rifle, is not a firearm.

@GipsyOfNewSpain -- Just for information:

fire·arm
?f?(?)r?ärm/
noun
noun: firearm; plural noun: firearms

a rifle, pistol, or other portable gun.

The common generic name for the Winchester rifle chambered for this cartridge was "Thirty-Thirty".

Source of information: My grandfather was a gunsmith who began his career in Kansas (circa 1900). I spent many of my early years working in his shop in South Gate, CA. When anyone asked for a Winchester chambered for the thirty-thirty cartridge, they always asked to see a 'Thirty-Thirty'.

The cartridge was uniquely made for the lever action rifle, though it found some limited use elsewhere. The .30-30 was designed during a time when lever action rifles were prevalent (pre 1900s). This is why the slugs have a flattened tip so the recoil wouldn't set off the bullets in the tube when a tip rammed the primer.

@evidentialist so there you go Ignorance does not make it true isn't it evidentialist?

Geezuseffinkeriste..........i may never sleep again

its fine most flies are other creatures lunch

Start a sweat shop and you got yourself a decent home business.

Now THAT is an idea

Lol

True...

OMG! I had NO idea!!! A new "K" word for Scrabble! Thanks!!!

hmmmm interesting!