Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect

I think I'll try giving it another shot this weekend. I didn't bother setting it up last weekend. Though the GF just bought a two-person sleeping bag to get extra cuddly on. But my only thought with those are, if I have to leave the tent in a hurry, it's more cumbersome.

I used a sleeping bag when I had mine. It was summer here in Colorado and I still got cold. And I don't get cold. I love my little hammock for what it is, but it would have to be 70+ degrees F before I thought about sleeping in it by itself. But, but, Hammock tents! Didn't you see the Pintrest/Buzzfeed/Huffpo article? They're so cool. And hip. And stuff. They even come with a busty female companion!

I'll try to find something on it. I learned about it by speaking to one of the lead professors doing the work. They couldn't get it through any FDA testing due to the way FDA testing on humans is defined. Instead, they went and marketed the procedure for pets, namely dogs. But, in a sense, it would be the easiest, cheapest, most reaching global medical breakthrough since iodine in salt or fluorine in water.From a public health perspective, it is amazing. To the degree that dentists would lose a ton of money. It out competes the other strain of the same bacteria that uses the lactate dehydrogenase enzyme, so that's all the micro-fauna it displaces.

Has anybody here slept in a hammock while camping? And if so, how do you do it and not freeze? I tried it once here in Colorado, but up in the mountains where there's a constant 4 mph wind, even with a blanket I couldn't keep warm.

So since this exists, why has anyone else made any other pistol, ever? I smell a conspiracy.

Do you think that if it was chambered in .45 ACP these problems would fix themselves? I think so.

I'm a big fan of dried fruit, cashews, pecans, and peanuts. I never did like candy in trail mix. But dried mango, banana, apple, etc are always good options and pair well with the salty nuts. I've only made jerky in the past, mostly out of deer. If you give it a shot, be sure to let us know how it turns out. Well that's no fun. I guess because it's rather dry and they don't want people starting huge fires that get out of control? Even though there's a law, do you find that people start fires anyway?

That's an easy enzyme swap. Switch out the gene for lactate dehydrogenase to an ethanol dehydrogenase. They have done that with Lactobaccillus strains to create a bacteria that would colonize someone's mouth and displace the "bad" bacteria that cause cavities. Instead of lactic acid, they produced ethanol, which is harmless to enamel. This, however, couldn't get passed through the FDA because they couldn't figure out a way to tax it. Think about it. You could do a quick mouth-wash of this new bacteria and it outproduces your normal mouth bacteria with no side-effects. Now you're practically immune to cavities, and it's cheap as hell. Best part (or worst if you're the GOVERNMENT) is that you can transmit this strain to others just by a little sloppy kissing. If the GOV can't tax it, they don't want it.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245148180_Biological_Hydrogen_Production_in_Continuous_Stirred_Tank_Reactor_Systems_with_Suspended_and_Attached_Microbial_Growth Here's the abstract, "Fermentative H2 production in continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) system with bacteria attached onto granular activated carbon (GAC) was designed to produce H2 continuously. The H2 production performances of CSTR with suspended and attached-sludge from molasses were examined and compared at various organic loading rates (8–40g COD/L/d) at hydraulic retention time of 6h under mesophilic conditions (35°C). Both reactor systems achieved ethanol-type fermentation in the pH ranges 4.5–4.8 and 3.8–4.4, respectively, while ORP ranges from −450 to −470mV and from −330 to −350mV, respectively. The hydrogen production rate in the attached system was higher compared to that of the suspended system (9.72 and 6.65L/d/L, respectively) while specific hydrogen production rate of 5.13L/g VSS/d was higher in the suspended system. The attached-sludge CSTR is more stable than the suspended-sludge CSTR with regard to hydrogen production, pH, substrate utilization efficiency and metabolic products (e.g., volatile fatty acids and ethanol) during the whole test." So it can be done with certain set-ups and depending on your needs.

I like choppy things when I go camping. My current "survival" knife is a Schrade. It comes with a fire starter and a sharpening tool. It's a hefty, thick, ridiculous blade that I use to cut down small trees and process firewood with while at a camp site. And for $30, you can do a lot worse. https://www.knifecenter.com/item/SCHF37/schrade-schf37-frontier-fixed-black-blade-tpe-handles-nylon-sheath-ferro-rod-sharpening-stone

I do enjoy making hardtack for camping. It's my go-to, since it lasts forever, is very inexpensive, and will keep me going. I use a lot of butter when I make mine, but I'll have to try tossing in a bit of honey and see how that works out. I'm open to different hardtack recipes. I usually make two sheets and have extra for during the week. I need to find some decent, lightweight cooking supplies that don't include my survival knife and whittling sticks together. But hard cured sausages are great for camping. I've also used summer sausage in a pinch (white-tail deer with tallow, cheese, and jalapeno). I've never thought about using Ramen. I honestly have only ever had it once, and it was when I was like ten years old at a friend's house. I wasn't too impressed. I've have the opposite occur, which is a better situation. On an overnight trip I had someone pack in enough food for three days.

A basic CSTR set up looks like the following. Now, I thought you were proposing using a CSTR in the production of lipids via microalgae. My idea for lipid production would either be a CSTR or a batch reactor. I would have to crunch numbers and figure out the specific rate laws governing each for the particular microorganism I would use. Plus feed to the microorganism is important. As far as light, it would be needed for the photosynthesis. That's why I am more inclined to used a semi-batch reactor design (kind of a mix between batch and CSTR) with light-emitting rods moving into the reactor to continue the reaction and subsequent growth of the microorganisms. I believe Semi-batch design would allow for the addition of extra feedstock. A water jacket would be needed to keep temperature constant, and after a given growth period the reactor would be drained and the cells cracked for the lipids. The lipids in this case are fatty acids that can be turned into biodiesel via the following reaction. (A general reaction in this case)

So you want to have a lighting system for a CSTR reactor with a cooling jacket? Because you'd need the UV dialed in for the mixed reactor to optimize a specific dwell time to sync up with downstream production schedules. And slow life-cycles means that the dwell time would be weird to nail down. But doable, just I don't know if it's worth it.

In your list, what do you do about food? I enjoy backpacking in to places to camp, but I'm always interested in food options. I currently make butter-heavy tack bread/crackers for overnight trips.

That's great that you were able to get rid of the bear. My camping experience really started back in 2011 when I did a bike-packing race from Banff, CA to Mexico. It's a race called Tour Divide and it goes along the rocky mountains in logging roads and such. You carry all you need on a bike and restock when you go through towns. I happened across 13 bears in Montana alone, half of which were grizzlies. I nearly shat myself when I came across one at 20 yards on a dirt road. Most up to this point were far off or I was going downhill fast enough to not need to worry. But this one had cubs. All I had was a damned whistle. I would have given anything for a .44. And six friends with shotguns. My bike had bags on it, and I carried a small backpack with me as well. I camped a bit while on the course. I stayed in hotel rooms too. But most of my camping was done on the side of dirt roads or in ditches. Finally, after 30 days of riding I made it to Mexico. I don't think I ever wanted to be outside ever again after that. I still have my tent, which didn't get much use because I shipped it back after the third night. Just didn't end up using it. If I were going lightweight backpacking, I would bivvy up in a down bag. That tent is a one-person, but two if you really like the other person and they aren't that big. I used that this past weekend. Here's a picture of my previous camping spot. We hiked about two miles in and found a little spot at 11.5k feet from where we parked. You can see my tent is kinda small. But it's light (a little over a pound) and sets up very easily.

That's assuming you want to kill off your colony when extracting lipids. You can extract the lipids used for bio diesel without having to kill the organisms. It's more cost effective that way.

This is a thread about camping. Camping is the act of purposely leaving the house and wifi connection in order to sleep on the ground, sometimes in the cold. You may choose to consume less than appetizing food and be at the mercy of nature during this time. This thread can be used for discussion of items one would take during such a time. I did such an event with my girlfriend this weekend. I drove up some rather ungroomed roads to Crystal Mountain, west of Fort Collins. Here is the proof.

Went camping this weekend and decided to shoot my .22 CZ at a steel target. But use the camera instead of my eyes to line up the sights. 5/5 shots on target though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeYb7XZE0XI&feature=youtu.be

Harvard engineers have started using bacterial strains to produce isopropanol via cyanobacteria photosynthesis. http://hms.harvard.edu/news/bionic-leaf It's interesting. I'm a big fan of going the bio diesel route with cyanobacteria.

Hesse's handiwork was seen today.

Maybe he's just pale as hell? I mean, the joker has always been super pale. Maybe that's just the character. How many times have we seen the Joker out in the rain without the makeup coming off completely? I actually like Leto's joker's looks. I want to watch Suicide Squad before I give judgement.

Looks like night vision to me?

No worse than the standard M4gery with quadrails molested vigorously by tapco and magpul I bet.

I own a "military drag bag" for a rifle. Does anyone know how to effectively use this thing? http://i.imgur.com/oFSv8Ry.jpg