noob? alaska? these are not compatible.
one does not simply level up on moose. they are not a low tier enemy.
They’re furry dumptrucks on stilts, and will wreck you and whatever your driving and get up and stumble off like someone would rolling into work hungover on sunday after a fun saturday night.
the bears will hit you with some wu tang as well.
good luck in alaska, i’m jelly.
Man, you’re not lying. I should change my name to FutureDarwinAwardWinner. I’m so not compatible with this place but I ain’t leaving.
Truer words have not been spoken about the moose, they are truly dangerous. Mostly because they are so unpredictable. They seem like large placid deer most of the time. I’ve been feet from them in the forest several times and they were cool, I was cool, and I was lulled into thinking they’re no big deal until several instances of seeing them go from placid to crackhead out of nowhere. Ever see that Russian video of a group of people and kids feeding a moose? Moose is happy as can be getting fed and without any provocation or anything, just kicks this tiny toddler girl out of nowhere with its front legs.
And when they want to fight you and the bristles on the mane come up and the ears go flat…you’re in a tight spot, my hair. And a bull moose during rut is on a whole different level of terrifying.
I’m an out of shape over the hill computer dork (not a very good one) who now uses a chainsaw, drives an ATV, drives a truck, drives an excavator and skid steer, rigs loads for a helicopter, wires up electrical equipment and has no business or skill doing any of it. I just make it up as I go. I’ve had several close calls from my own stupidity without even accounting for earthquakes and wildfires and freezing temps and critters.
I would be in no way surprised if I don’t meet an early demise out here, although I’m going to be clearing an LZ for LifeFlight soon as we’ll be paying for the plan for that, maybe that will help (I still need to rig up a ready-to-go trailer for transporting a patient on a wheeler though, because the LZ won’t be super close by). But at this point in my life, when my stupidity catches up to me, oh well. Can’t live forever (unless you’re one of the tech bros working on telomere repair and life extension tech, but those people would never hook me up with it and I fear those people will also make the planet not worth living on).
the fun of owning a fast sports car is a waste if your just gonna baby it an drive it like the camry you probably should have bought if you were “responsible”
going back into the dirt with a few extra holes just means you understood the assignment, found the gas pedal and blew past the 55mph speed limit sign and flipping it the bird in your loud ass not-a-camry.
you gotta live a little, ironically, even if that means living in a place that constantly leaves you face to face with death.
There are several well known telomere repair compounds. They can be found in most cancers.
Are you referring to the fact that the only “immortal” cells we have that don’t die after so many replications include cancer cells? If they have compounds has anything been done to use those compounds on other cells? I would imagine doing so would likely just make those other cells cancerous, there must be some kind of balance. This topic is fascinating to me but given I still consider Calculus a life goal to learn one day, I’m not going to be the one to answer these questions…
Most cancer cells die quite often they just multiply faster than they die, and yeah so-called “immortal” cell lines are much more useful in research than they are to a living organism. I’m still just an amateur biologist, but I’m pretty sure even critters like the axolotl, and planarians which have amazing regenerative capabilities don’t do it through cells that never die. That’s not really the same thing as aging, but you get the idea.
Look up the story of Henrietta Lacks if you want to know more.
Yesterday I went out onto the deck and kicked up a big mama and a big cub who were in the yard. But no bears came up on the deck and I figured my two problem bears learned from the rubber slugs they got.
Unfortunately when I went into town today to pick up a chest holster for the Ruger Super Redhawk Alaska I recently bought (I’m not a gun guy, believe me, even though this sounds like I am), one of the already slugged bears showed up on the deck. I raced back to the homestead and didn’t complete my tasks in civilization and when I got up there she raced down the deck. I went onto the deck corner and looked down at her and she just looked at me and didn’t seem concerned, wasn’t running. So I put her down with a single shot from the Glock 20. It was a clean kill, she dropped in place and stopped moving within 30 seconds. Then I gutted and skinned her (first time doing either ever on any animal other than a single grouse up here) and gave her meat to a couple locals and will be making a rug from the rest. I feel awful about it, she’s not trophy, she was an intelligent animal just trying to survive, dropped into a brutish world, and I’m a fat guy who has never experienced an ounce of her hardship. She watches from the forest and sees us feeding all manner of animal and they woke up early this year due to our weird weather. I can’t compete with her, she’s a superior creature. But she did not learn and I gave her ample time to do so and she might present a threat to my wife one day, so it is what it is. I hope I never take another life again not that doing so would make me somehow morally better, but because I prefer not seeing where my meat comes from. There is something superior about being comfortable with processing your own meat and being fully aware of that process, but I’d prefer to be inferior on that score and hope some AI run factory provides a great life for meat and at a ripe old age quickly and painlessly dispatches them. I’m sure that’s a fantasy for now. Anyway, I’m not a gun guy (I support the 2A emphatically) and I’m not a hunter. But I do like to eat meat. Anyway, I go back to my first theodicy quip and am angry that God designed a world like this, it’s not intelligent design and it’s not moral design.
On a lighter note, DJE came by while I was cleaning and skinning her and looked at me like “what are you doing?” I thought I was gonna have to fist fight him for the bear meat but he didn’t show any interest and was happy to take a chicken wing to go.
And the fact that I feed these animals as I do, and I have been too lazy to get our electric fence working properly, puts this young bear’s needless death squarely at my feet. I feel awful about that.
This is a tech forum, so somebody please let me know the Amazon link to buy one of those energy directed weapons for crowd control that our wonderful overlords use on our protests so I can put those to good use and prevent this kind of thing in addition to coming up with a better animal feeding solution and an electric fence that works. Many thanks in advance.
Don’t you dare make the mistake of over-sympathizing nature’s critters. They don’t give a damn about you. When you are out there, you kill when you have to. Its just the harsh rules you live by, not by choice, but by necessity. Don’t feel guilt when you yourself are out there equally exposed.
Your perimeter and house are the direct extension of your body out there. Your infrastructure you put there is the direct extension of your physiological processes. The animals have to respect that or you wont have an intact house with heating.
I may of missed this further up in the thread but what make of camera’s have you got? I’ve deployed Reolink camera’s for my in laws, good price and good quality. They also have a siren feature which will sound on all cameras (we used it when someone has tried to steal the moped off the drive).
Maybe a bit of a dumb question here so please excuse the naive South Londoner asking, but it maybe be worth looking into Reolink cameras for the siren feature? Would that potentially scare them off or would they not even be phased by it?
Got Dahua cameras. Work nicely although they are not helpful with the HTTP Request feature not working according to their published API. Makes me think they really only want businesses leveraging it, but I don’t know. It can emit sound but I haven’t wired that up yet. I will be putting in an outdoor speaker system and having it play once I get my model trained. On motion it would be playing all the time.
Thinking seriously of buying a DJI FlyCart 30 drone. Would cut down on our ATV maintenance bills and helicopter invoices. Can only sling load 88 pounds, but would still come in very useful in a variety of ways. But it’s expensive as all get out…
Hmm, what kind of maintenance cost would a drone like that carry with it? If it’s a one time cost it should pay for its self eventually, but if the drone needs work to function well against the elements that might change the picture.
I don’t know, but I would think it would be pretty minimal maintenance. It’s all weather although we likely wouldn’t fly it in the rain. Brushless electric motors, radar and 360 degree object detection, it should last quite some time unless it smacked a tree which seems unlikely. Flying above the mud and the terrain, a great way to take stuff from A to B. I really want a two-seat Jetson to replace our ATVs for the same reason.
When we haul a sizable load with the ATV it’s almost always a guaranteed visit to the shop. This thing would require a bit more time to haul stuff, but I would think the maintenance difference would make it worth it.
Edit: looking at the maintenance manual, it essentially says every single component (RADAR, structure, cameras, etc) need to be replaced even if undamaged every 1000 flight hours or every 3 years. I need to dig more into that, because there is no way I’m going to buy one of these things every 3 years…
Okay, finished the document and it specifically says the entire drone has to be replaced every three years even if undamaged, to include the remote controller. Holy God. There is no way the remote controller and the RADAR and the cameras have to be replaced every three years, the structure supporting the load, sure, but this is nonsense. Guess I will not be getting one of these 30K machines after all.
How about the Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog?
Shenanigans. I mean, I get it. There’s lots of other places where replacements are mandated on some kind of schedule, but that’s usually in a much different situation than yours.
I don’t want it to kill me when it sees a social media post that is deemed off limits.
We will look into getting a tracked crawler. Much more expensive than this junk drone, but far more capable. Been trying to rent one for years up here but something has always fallen through. If we can find a way to buy one and finance it, we might do that. Can bring up a ton of stuff then and stop using the helicopter.
That wont happen in this decade I think. give it a decade or two… 
USA national park rangers use shotgun slugs that are whistles, and non lethal. There was a bear that had been misbehaving in an area I was camping in and they were out to remind him of his place. Ie the bear gets shot with a whistle. They tell you to blow whistles while walking in the woods to scare away the predators, because the predators in the woods have been shot with a whistle. However this does not work outside of park boundaries, since those bears have not been shot with whistles. I thought that you may like that idea.
I have used blue iris on windows with Dahua cameras. I control it via a web app or iPhone. You can also use tail scale to access your network via phone remotely.
For my use I need to get the HTTP Requests or ONVIF working so I can control it via Python. Unfortunately I’ve run into issues so far and the company hasn’t been helpful. I’ll take another look at it in the winter though.
