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  1. Looked you up on the US Patent website and am guessing “up the creek without a ___ “ has something to do with the “HONESTY TESTING AND SCORING EVALUATOR”? As far as I know, I don’t need more screws or a drill, but I sure could use one of those “HONESTY TESTING AND SCORING EVALUATOR”’s and a “up the creek without a ___” for my students right about now! 😉 But seriously, you have some great stuff and I’m sure this will follow suit Doc! Oh and what type of pizza?😁
  2. Ron, the problem is, they wouldn’t want to make too good of an expensive detector, because then just a few people could buy it and they would suck up all the gold, and then nobody would want to do it anymore.😉
  3. …and don’t post your beyond visual distance flights on YouTube as the man is looking out for those.
  4. It would be difficult to see the small stuff with a drone that gives evidence about the prospecting potentials of an area, but it could help when looking for those off the beaten track with larger types of evidence of gold potential (pits, drywashing piles,etc.). Sounds like a good experiment to see if it is useful for finding new places. Good Hunting!
  5. When drones become more autonomous it will also be possible to let them fly into mines to map their interiors using lidar or visual imagery. I saw a demo of dog-like robots doing this at a JPL/NASA open house last year- they were autonomous and could walk in beyond remote control reception to map out deep interiors of mines, caves and collapsed buildings - pretty cool stuff!
  6. I used to do mine surveys and mapping for work, and we used a drone to check hard to reach prospect pits and old mine sites to see if they had any open adits or shafts to survey. It saved a lot of money (in time) instead of us hiking up to them. I also used it to help with an archaeological survey to look for rock art up on cliffs and outcrops. Drones for prospecting may help with identifying areas of prior work (old trails, drywashing piles, mine dumps or other worked sites), and looking for areas with outcrops or dikes with prominent mineral deposits. It’s not a new idea, and even Jeff Williams has some videos on his channel where they are also using a drone to look for historic mines.
  7. Steve’s and others carrying their picks are good ideas and I do too when traversing hills- I also sometimes use mine when climbing up a slick dirt hill to help pull myself up, but I usually holster it when walking flats while not detecting. To carry it, I use a $10 Harbor Freight holster because it has a couple extra smaller tool holders on it that I use for my pin pointer and my scoop. I also attach the connector end of two retractable key reels to it to attach to the pin pointer and scoop - keeps me from losing them and even pulls them back up if I don’t holster them.
  8. You realize that you found the master’s ring created by Sauron, right? I know it’s too late for you, but I would never have put that thing on because he is seeking it, seeking it — all his thought is bent on it. The Ring yearns above all else to return to the hand of its master. They are one, the Ring and the Dark Lord, Dave, and he must never find it. Keep it hidden, keep it safe. Translated those markings mean: “…One Ring to Rule them all One Ring to find them One Ring to Bring them all and in the darkness Bind them.” 😄
  9. I’m sitting here thinking where the Henry would a gold H button go? Oh, it must be some Aussie thing or something…then the light bulb turned on. Hahaha.
  10. Simon, you have a great attitude for sure, even if you sound a little bit like Gollum!😉 I feel the same way though, I never really found anything significant unless you count lead as part of it. Actually, I don’t mind finding lead, it tells me that I’m doing something right for once! But it’s really the hiking in the hills and being in the desert and other natural places that count for me.
  11. Wow, could’ve would’ve and should’ve - some of the three most useless words ever Simon! 😉 I used to be a white water river guide on several of California’s prime gold bearing rivers and probably floated over many ounces of gold while doing it and never knowing what I missed. And in those earlier times I used to do a lot of hiking in the desert and could handle the summer heat well by working outdoors all the time, but now I have gotten soft ever since changing to indoor work in classrooms. At least that’s my excuse instead of blaming my age for it!😀
  12. Dark lens is the ticket- at least a #12 - not the auto darkening ones though! 🤩
  13. That looks like some great work. I’m trying to figure out how you welded that on and then ground it down so smoothly, did you weld with a gap between the two parts?
  14. If you are still trying to figure out where to go, this might be an interesting destination; there are places where it has been predicted that you’ll actually see two “diamond ring” effects when the sun is just barely obscured by the moon during the start and end of totality caused by a bit of the sun going behind mountains and valleys on the moon itself: https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/double-diamond-ring?mc_cid=86171aa356&mc_eid=2f844ffc2e
  15. I just ordered this, thanks for the reference! I like the fact that it has that built-in drop-down pouch for carrying long items that can send little things far away, that’ll come in handy for caring a tripod or my detector. The built-in bright orange rain fly cover will be helpful too, especially during deer season so I don’t get shot in the back by some idiot who thinks I’m a buck 🤪 -seriously!
  16. The stupid hotel where I made reservations about a year in advance in Oregon for the 2017 eclipse canceled us and resold reservations at more than 3x what we would have paid just a month before it. I was frantically searching for a decent place but then the week before we got a regular forest campground reservation at a hot spring in the mountains pretty near Gerry’s back yard- he probably knows it well. Some unfortunate soul cancelled and we got in. It was a great place with very nice people camping there- made some friends from all over the country and we will be meeting up again this time again in Texas.
  17. Thank you for the compliment, it was pretty exciting to get decent photos of it. But to be honest, I only I shot just a few photos then had to stop and just look around as well because it was really cool seeing the edges of daylight around us in the horizon while we were in a dark shadow, and you really can see stars during them while the sun looks like a black hole in the sky. I can see why people panicked and even sacrificed their young when they didn’t know what was happening during an eclipse, they could be seen as rather scary if you didn’t understand it!
  18. Where to go online to get lessons on shooting eclipses? Why you need to go to Mr. Eclipse- seriously! It’s a silly name for a website, but the guy’s got it nailed down: https://www.mreclipse.com/SEphoto/SEphoto.html The main thing I learned is you have to use exposure bracketing to get the best shot, but he takes it further and uses them to process into an HDR image. I only used one of my best exposures for the shots above.
  19. Buy your glasses soon- they sell out fast and unfortunately the price gouging has already started. I was in Idaho for the 2017 eclipse and it was wonderful. Better in person than on television for sure, everyone should see at least one in their lifetime! So this one will be number three for us including the annular eclipse that passed through Utah a couple years ago. We are going to be west of Waco on a friend’s ranch for it- and have the week off for spring break to take our time coming home. Will be traveling through New Mexico and AZ and hopefully will have some time to use the detectors along the way home too. I used a Baader solar filter on my lens for the three bright solar images I took leading up to totality, if you zoom close, you can see sun spots on the sun. No filter was necessary on my camera nor to look at it directly during totality on the last photo to the left.
  20. Gerry, even though you might have removed your ring and think it was your great personality and looks that gathered all those girls, did you remember to take that nugget out of your mouth? That’s OK, for most prospectors, the best types of girlfriends and wives can also be gold diggers! 😉
  21. Interesting… the ad feeds here on DP must be reading the content - a $.74 tungsten carbide ring sounds like a bargain!
  22. Yeah, it’s pretty obvious when you see Joshua trees or sagebrush, and some show certain types of pines as well but plants can only really show a region. I’m sure it’s the same for those in other places of the world like in Australia. The AI programs do use large geologic features that are shown in Google Earth, but not smaller ones - local rocks or outcrops that are unique enough that someone familiar to an area knows. I have to admit it is sort of fun trying to figure out where photos were taken, that’s why I’m volunteering to do it from my wife’s company. It just got a lot easier to do these days.
  23. That was an impressive modification and I wanted to try it also when you first posted about it. Someone will like it!
  24. Sure, hope it helps others out there to be careful about sharing too much online. It’s also amazing how many people forget to turn off their location sharing option (GPS tag) when texting or sending photo files- the GPS tags can be useful for personal use but they do pinpoint the location very well for anyone who was given a copy. One of my buddies was good at doing it until I showed him what he was accidentally sending out. It’s good that this website does not keep the EXIF data (GPS tags or location information) on any of our posted photos, so it’s safe to post other types of photos or those that don’t show too much of the horizon.
  25. Well it’s here and probably here to stay so people need to understand and live with its abilities. Not only is AI great at programming and writing, it has become advanced enough to find locations by matching landscape photos that people post online to Google Earth images and others, and with fairly good accuracy. This does not depend on the GPS tag location information that is also stored on your smartphone photos, it is actually an image search and analysis of the horizon features shown in the photo that it is doing. I am into Geography and GIS, and use a publicly available locating program to help with my wife’s historical archaeology work to find locations where old photos were taken (it only works if there hasn’t been too much development of the area in the meantime) and it has been fairly accurate. Anyways, just a heads up if you like to post landscape photos online but also want to keep your locations safe, as it is no longer just those people who are familiar with an area that can recognize where your landscape photos were taken, AI can now do it for for anyone almost as well as long as there’s a horizon shown with some features in the skyline (mountains and valleys and other unique items in the skyline).
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