This article needs to be posted in the grammar thread.

A more detailed article.

Researchers at the site also found what's called a "melt rock" weighing over 600 grams. It's an agglomeration of three different rocks melted together by extreme heat and covered with a layer of glass. This also contained zirconium crystals, and further analysis of the melt rock concluded that it had probably been exposed to 12,000 degree Celsius temperatures for a few seconds.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-meteor...-dead.html#jCp

"The city itself held the administrative center of the kingdom, and was protected by a perimeter wall up to 30m (100 ft) thick and up to 15m (50 ft.) high, for a linear distance of over 2.5km."

That is a big ass wall. I guess the wall proves that racism was rampant way back then too.

On the wall, gotta keep those Israelis out some how.
The actual research paper with pictures is here:
(No mention of Sodom so I guess that was click bait)

https://www.researchgate.net/publica...e_Civilization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_face_murder_theory

Devil in the White City is a great read.

Confirmed. Had to read it for undergrad.

We've been through this before itt and I purchased the book on these recommendations. A while back it sounded like Devil in the White City was already in production by Scorcese.

The Flying Tigers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers

A voluntary air force crew that was instrumental in WW2. It's a misnomer to call it "voluntary" since they were paid. It's a good read with a lot of complexity, so I"ll leave it at that.

In most military contexts voluntary means not drafted (not compulsory) rather than not compensated.

I went to college in La Crosse and many, many people there think it's a serial killer that's a cop.

I've often thought about making a youtoob about how easy it would be as a drunk to stumble towards the river (if you're in a bar on the opposite side of 3rd street), yet how hard it would be to actually fall in the river (flood control levy).

Yes. Also I note that he died in an isolation tank with who knows how much ketamine in his system.

I’d say solid but not great. I thought it was a B+ or so.

How about if you are drunk in Riverside Park? Super easy to stumble in to the river there. Or really anywhere along Front Street north of the bridge.

Riverside Park is exactly where i'm thinking it wouldn't be easy to get into the water on accident. If you were stumbling drunk (walking towards the utter blackness of the Mississippi river instead of towards town) the big rocks would trip you and you wouldn't fall in; you'd fall on the rocks and it'd hurt like hell. It'd take you a couple of determined stumbles onto big rocks to get actually into the water imo.



*looking at La Crosse pics is making me wistful.

I don't think it's quite that nice this time of the year!

My Dad is from La Crosse!

that pope is he a police

You'd be surprised how often drunk people decide to walk along the rocks in a sort of semi-bouldering maneuver. I was thinking more of wandering off the steamboat mooring area, though.

That looks super easy to do. Someone wanting to get down to the water for some stupid drunk reason slips off a rock near the water.

I'm sure this has been mentioned before but where I grew up in Manchester UK there's a rumoured serial killer due to the very high numbers of people found in the city's canals.

Manchester Pusher: Does a serial killer haunt the city's canals?

More than likely the cause is just a large population of young people, getting drunk, and then falling into the water in the dark.

There's been at least five healthy aged males found in Austin's river in the past few months. Mostly after disappearing from a bar while being drunk on a weekend night, but maybe this killer guy you are talking about is on the move.

the killer goes by a few names

jim beam
jack daniels

etc

Well, if people are trying to get over the boulders for 'some drunk reason' or are traveling along the river looking for an easier place to fall in then all bets are off. I had always assumed drunk people were just taking wrong turns out of bars because they were on the opposite side of 3rd street than most of the bars. Like they walked the wrong way down Vine St after leaving Del's because they thought they were at Who's On Third. Or they walk the wrong way down Pearl St after leaving the Starlight because they thought they were at the Library. All those vectors lead you straight into boulder fields along the river (and chain 'fences'). The last guy to end up dead when i left there had last been seen at John's, which is on that side of 3rd.

/thinly veiled excuse to rattle off names of La Crosse college bars

In looking into these specific cases I'm noticing that a lot of the dead guys are visiting students from other universities. As La Crosse has always been a essentially a tourist destination for getting absolutely blitzed, it seems pretty likely that they could be lost and wandering in the dark and could find their way in almost anywhere.

ETA: In 2012 we had a visiting University of Wisconsin student fall in the Mississippi in La Crosse (in January). He was able to pull himself out and survive.

https://footprintsattheriversedge.bl...crosse-wi.html

0.163 is drunk but not nearly drunk enough to be in 'blacked out not forming memories' territory for a 21 year old University of Wisconsin student imo. And he was pulling himself out of the river and passing out on the river bank several hours later when he was no longer even legally drunk. Hmmmm...

ETA: I don't think he was in the 32 degree water for 5.5 hours. So had to somehow fall in with a BAC more like 0.043. Dude probably got roofied or something.