Live Stoner Chat Live Stoner Chat - Jul-Sep '25

[Frankthetank]

 

[WildBill]

This takes place on one of the islands of the Galapagos. The Galapagos Islands are just full of strange evolutionary occurrences due to the isolation of the islands. This Land iguana is definitely one of them. I can definitely see how Darwin was fascinated with them.

While I am missing some pertinent data, such as the age of the volcano, I find it extremely fascinating of how this egg laying adventure became 'instinctual', as described in the vid.

How did this relationship occur? The Marine Iguanas don't use this method of incubating and I'm fairly sure they are on this island also. Do the land iguanas of this island lay their eggs any other place ? There has to be some sort of advantage to this method of incubation . That's the way evolution works . Off the top of my head this morning , the only advantage that I could possibly see for the animal to take this much of a risk to lay the eggs in the volcano and for the Hatchlings to be able to climb out of this damn Volcano, is far less predator pressure. The predator pressure must be incredible for this iguana to have to go through all this just to reproduce and survive as a species.


edit............................ I sure am going to miss David Attenborough narration of BBC nature programs when he passes away ! He's 99 years old now ! I've been watching him narrate nature programs for all my life . I always knew that if he was narrating , it was gonna be a outstanding program ! What a fascinating life this man has lead and the animals that he has seen !

 

[Fermented_Fruitz]

Good luck…..sounds like a hell of a job

I’m already done! Peep this shit bro! I warned my mom this could happen but didn’t realize it already had!

Back driver side rotor….obviously scratched up and needing replacing!

Back passenger side is fucked! U can tell the brake caliper piston got seized in the fully extended position and tore this fucker up!

U can tell which pads are from which side….

If the ones on the right hadn’t worn down to nothing that tire woulda been stuck and wouldn’t have spun! The bare metal one is the one from the front side that put all them gouges into the rotor!

 

[Mara Cachafa]

...Iguanas ..

On Leaf Cay in the Bahamas there's a large colony of the Great Bahamian Iguanas. They were once thought extinct. It's a small uninhabited island with a good anchorage for cruising sailboats. The iguana adults are over 3' long, and not afraid of people. We used to crush a whelk and dangle the meat at waist height, and they would stand on their hind legs and grab it from your hand. I was always nervous about peeing on that island.

 

[Frankthetank]

was always nervous about peeing on that island.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

I’m already done! Peep this shit bro! I warned my mom this could happen but didn’t realize it already had!

Back driver side rotor….obviously scratched up and needing replacing!

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Back passenger side is fucked! U can tell the brake caliper piston got seized in the fully extended position and tore this fucker up!
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U can tell which pads are from which side….
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If the ones on the right hadn’t worn down to nothing that tire woulda been stuck and wouldn’t have spun! The bare metal one is the one from the front side that put all them gouges into the rotor!

I have done a lot of brake work, what you have here is only worse by total failure, WIMPO was one panic stop away. I drove a car without brakes once, it was more like a toboggan ride than a drive. I didn't hit anything but you really are not in control and it was scary.

 

[Frankthetank]

I have done a lot of brake work, what you have here is only worse by total failure, WIMPO was one panic stop away. I drove a car without brakes once, it was more like a toboggan ride than a drive. I didn't hit anything but you really are not in control and it was scary.

When I lived in Maine, I lost the brakes in my Silverado…..pedal went clear to the floor (brake line blew out because of rust) on a downhill T intersection….. I shot through the stop sign, narrowly missed being t boned by a dump truck, flew off a three foot embankment, through a barbed wire fence and got stuck in the mud in the field I landed in….

 

[trailanimal]

A little out of season, still too much light for much sky color, it's coming, probably too damn fast

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Good morfnoevight all you happy stoners!

When I lived in Maine, I lost the brakes in my Silverado…..pedal went clear to the floor (brake line blew out because of rust) on a downhill T intersection….. I shot through the stop sign, narrowly missed being t boned by a dump truck, flew off a three foot embankment, through a barbed wire fence and got stuck in the mud in the field I landed in….

Glad you didn't get hurt.

In every case of brake "failure" I have experienced I was able to control the vehicle with gears/Jake's or hand brakes. I was camping up in Jackass meadows in the high Sierras when a storm hit. It had snowed a foot on the road already when the park rangers kicked us out of the camp. You have to ford a little creek to get into the campground that was not so little anymore and water was coming in the floorboards of the 61' Chevy 3/4 ton pickup, The boat was floating with the trailer headed down stream. The safety chains doing their job kept the boat with us. The biggest problem was the drum brakes were icy wet and it was so cold that standing on the brake pedal could not create enough friction/heat to dry them out. That old truck had compound low so we crawled down the mountain while I dragged my foot on the brake. They had closed the road to incoming traffic which really saved the day because I could never have stopped going downhill to back up for someone coming uphill. That is the rule on a one lane road. By the time we hit the highway 25 miles later the truck had enough brake to make a planed stop at the stop sign. It was really a white knuckle event because even with chains on the rear wheels the weight of the boat was enough to cause slippage on the ice under the snow.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Spoiler: On the menu:

breakfast burritos. The espresso just keeps getting better.

We tested the new batch of chicken breakfast sausage for dinner last night. It is delicious. We are trying Trader Joe's hashbrowns, I like them they get nice and crispy on the outside and remind me of McDs just not as oily.