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Have you ever found a DEAD GUY

Hello /out/ it's me again. Maybe it is time for another abandoned mine exploration thread. I have posted these for over a decade; this will be the last one. AMA. I'll answer what I can. I hope you enjoy.

what strange / spooky stuff have you seen?

once when i was in the desert, there was a telephone pole, on it looked exactly like a 10ft tall bird of prey, just eyeing me down
it was about a good 5min of walking, which felt like forever, just to see that it was a transformer that looked weird, none of the other poles had it either
sounds dumb, but it really did look exactly like a gigantic human sized hawk, and the "head" even seemed to follow you too, really interesting illusion, since it also hit all the primal parts of the brain that gone "you're about to be fucking eaten by a bird!!!!!!"
a year or two later, when i was gonna take a picture, it was gone, which adds a strange air to "it was right there, i tell you!"

>inb4 go to /x/ for this shit
i want real stories, not >i smelled the rotten shit fart gas, and my best friend was turned into a skinwalker, and then i pulled out that gun from videogame and blasted it, dude trust me

Is it possible to live completely cut off from the rest of the world? Not using money or having to work.
If so where and what are the basic tools required?

If you are a hunter or angler you now possess the power to bring back two species. Game or fish. You can only pick one category.
>you may pick two species
>one will not displace or harm an ecosystem
>it will be available to pursue by yourself and the public in its traditional range and sustain itself
>the other will be only for you in an environment which it lived
>you will have a one time pursuit of it with sufficient resources
>either species may be living or extinct

What are your choices?

Who makes decent snow shoes for bold explorers?

Everyone post your tips, tricks, and knowledge about how to best see in the dark, and how to best utilise your scotopic vision.

This includes discussion of lighting and how to best use it, and IR/thermal/nacht vision options.

I'll start:
Your scotopic (night) vision takes about 20mins to reach highly effective performance, and up to an hour to reach peak performance - so it's important that you preserve it!

Facts about your vision that you can use to your advantage:
>your eye has two main types of photoreceptors: cones and rods.
>cones are sensitive to colour and most of your fine detail relies on them, they are NOT sensitive to contrast or movement
>rods are sensitive to contrast and very sensitive to movement, they see ONLY contrast: dark vs. light and never in fine focus.
>cones are grouped in the centre of your retina, directly behind your pupil and lens
>rods are non-existent in the centre of your retina, but are spread around the outside, off-axis from your cornea, making survival possible because it is your peripheral vision that you rely on for reflex if anything suddenly moves in on you
>in scotopic vision your cones fail and you rely entirely on your rods, this is why in low light everything looks grey or black & white
>this also means in the dark anything you try to stare directly at (if you think something is lurking out there in the moonlight) you won't be able to see, you're basically blind to anything you stare at
>look away slightly, using your peripheral (rod) vision and even though you couldn't read a chart you will get more information and immediately identify if something is moving

cont'd

did you know that the colorado river doesn't reach the ocean anymore, and hasn't consistently since the 60s
it all gets sucked up for irrigation and municipal water on arizona and mexico
there's just a dry delta in baja california where it once was
a similar fate has actually befallen a bunch of rivers in the southwest

any subcultures other than rock climbing that have a dirtbagging scene?