How 19 Beavers Turned Utah’s Dying Desert River Into a Thriving Oasis

6/3/26:



Beavers and buffalo---two critters that could help transform that area into productive land. Or so I think.

Trouble is, getting them there.

Mar 23, 2026:

There are plenty of these beaver videos. A glance of the comments shows some negativity about this particular video. Nevertheless, it will be embedded here as an example of what may be possible out in West Texas. The video mentioned some studies of how to use beavers in other areas. Which opens up the question of whether or not any such study for West Texas.

There are a lot of stock tanks out there. What if a small colony were to be set up around these stock tanks? Would they survive? Would it improve the area?

Suckers born every minute

6/3/26:

It is worth noting that I terminated the account at Twitter before Elon Musk bought out Twitter and renamed it "X". I opened a new account under X. That's why this particular tweet won't show. It's no longer there.

A second comment to this is that it contains political opinion. I'm trying to avoid that on this blog and keep it on the other. Flat Earth is dumb. Go watch a Starship launch, and that should disabuse anyone of any such notion as a Flat Earth. The same goes for the notion that the Apollo landings were fake.

I will make a new category on this blog as in the main blog---call it "reaction posts".



11/28/18:

That's why AGW works politically. People can be led to believe the most absurd things.

Hundreds gather at Flat-Earth conference https://t.co/YQ3fDCArLY

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) November 28, 2018

Alpha Tech: The Real Reason Why SpaceX Starship B19 Exploded!

It didn't explode until it hit the water. Unless they are talking about the engine failures that included a small explosion in the engines?

Anastasi in Tech: The various approaches being taken to take chip manufacturing to a new level

Added a little more capability to the calendar

6/1/26:

The new upgrades and a bug correction this morning has introduced some complexity into the program. I'm thinking of creating a new video which will be a default video that will play some instructions about using the calendar. This may clear up any confusion which may result in the use of the program. That confusion may have existed all along, but a new instruction video may help with that.

5/30/26:

Prior to the upgrade, videos in previous months were available. Now all videos are available in the order in which they were placed in the calendar.

As with anything, it seems to have taken more time and effort than what I thought when I began the project. Now it's done, and I'm happy that it is done.

The Rio Grande River does go to the Gulf

Or it appears to. There were some videos that said that the Rio gets used up before reaching the Gulf. Those videos are wrong, or the water is coming from somewhere else. That's cuz there's a River there, and there's water there. It's actually quite large.

I got a video of it that I will share eventually once I get around to it. I'm at Starbase Texas for the Launch ot Test Flight 12 of the Starship.

Anyway, got things to do, and maybe places to go. So that's all for now.

Here's a video I made

The launch video

Just got home and I am tired...

Anyway, here's a video I made of the launch of Flight 12. I actually got to see the darned thing blast off after all! One scrub is all it took...

The trip was long. It rained most of the way back. As you may notice just after the launch, that my reaction was a bit interesting. (at least I thought so.)

"Earth-tube" insures year-round climate control at very low cost

If the Amish are doing it, it must be okay.

Rio Grande vs Rio Bravo Del Norte

Two names, one river.

Booster 19 full static fire

5/13/26:

Schedule slips to 19th! Arghhh!

5/7/26:

Homing in on the next flight test. Maybe they'll 'light the candle' on the 15th.