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Which branch of science do you work in? Based upon what I have seen, your evaluation of scientists is optimistic. There are ample examples of people challenging the scientific orthodoxy and getting hammered by the scientific community only to be proved correct in time. In the case of climate...

With the Samurai swords, there was a clause to allow for swords “made by traditional methods”. Seems like that could work to protect tuna cutters.

Metal shed. https://www.shedstore.co.uk/garden-sheds/metal-sheds Wooden sheds are going to be rather immobile. No windows mean no one can see in so more secure. You might find someone selling a used shed on eBay.

This looks like government listened to all the criticism following the ban on “Samurai” swords with curved blades longer than xxcm. Everyone pointed out that the purveyors of horrible cheap gangsta swords would be selling the same junk with straight blades even before the original ban came in...

Mod had on Herman, in the interest of forum harmony, can you please take your own advice and scroll on over threads about UK laws. By this point it is safe to say you won’t like what you read and you will feel it necessary to post inflammatory criticism. That you do not read the legislation...

There is a good series, Wild Canada, a couple different versions. I have the Attenborough one, which has different editing, but its big message is that many areas we would today think of as wilderness have been heavily shaped by human activity. I for one would not hold that against it...

Hi @Limaed , You just beat me to it! I was just typing that it depends I suppose what your definition of "true wilderness" is. :D :bigok: For example, back in 2005 I was fortunate enough to be a guest of a super Norwegian family near Fyresdal. We hiked, we fished. The place was covered in...

Knoydart?

Ted K. 5foot 9 inches. No weight given, but average to thin appearance. Average BMI for that height, 19 to 25, with weight variation of 130 to 170lb and an ideal for a 40 year old of 152 to 160lb. Reverse that ideal range alone and ask what the height range is for that weight range, given...

I like this channel on YouTube. As well as trying to provide clear explanations, without much name calling, she also illustrates one of our problems with labelling and then ignoring voices we don’t agree with. I have little time for cranks’ overall message, but I am interested in what they say...

Multiple things can be true simultaneously. Human activity can be driving the observed changes in temperatures. There can be money made by people presenting contradictory views. There can be even more money made in researching, supporting and amplifying the message of anthropogenic climate...

Multiple things CAN be true at the same time. Data can be poor and falsified. And This can be uncovered by people with an agenda to feed who are looking for such things. And The people can be cranks and the conclusion they draw about the implications of their discoveries can be warped by bias...

I am thinking that if it could be used, it would have been, rather than plaitting horse hair, silk, or twisting gut, and so forth.

I have the image of happy mice trotting around, minding their business, until the tragic day they sample some of Dave's food, or wander across his clothing or bedding...and just keel over dead! Man, what do you treat your kit with that it kills mice on contact?!?

I PMed Dale at 13:53 today asking him to let Tony or us staff know what he was working on. I think it would be better to lock this until he has had a chance to reply. I don't want to have to keep checking in to make sure that folk haven't started throwing burning loo roll through the bars!

Sharp grit from horticulture places is good for this....bigger than sand, smaller than small shingle

Without knowing what this is for, I have deleted my post from earlier.

C- for observation. Luke was unconscious in a carcass while Han got the shelter set up. :deadhorse: Sorry, no gifs of Han unzipping a fresh tauntaun with a light sabre, but this captures my feeling about this thread much better!

The blade is belt finish, but there are belt finishes and finishing belts. Farid's looks like 60 grit, maybe 120, but looks coarser to me. That isn't a working finish, that is just unfinished. Certainly, it does keep £ cost down, but at a cost. Harder to keep clean, more likely to crack...

No question about it, the man knows how to grind difficult to grind steels and has the equipment to do so efficiently. Those bushcraft knives (I am assuming its the batch of flat ground blades he shows over on Bladeforums too) look functional. More so than the Scandi version in the same steel...