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     No.23[Reply]


    Titanium
    - reactive metal
    - first discovered by British amateur mineralogist William Gregor in black sparkly sand in 1791 , named it with manaccanite
    - German chemist Martin Klaproth rediscovered in 1795 when analyzing rutile
    from Hungary and named it with titan-ium
    - "It was later determined that menachanite and titanium were the same element"
    - the pure titanium (99.9%) was not isolated until 1910 by Matthew Hunter by heating TiCl4 with sodium in a steel bomb.
    - Titanium is present in meteorites and in the sun.
    - the ninth most abundant in the crust of the Earth.
    - the only element that burns in nitrogen.
    - Titanium is as strong as steel, but 45% lighter. It is 60% heavier than aluminum, but twice as strong.
    - resistance to salt water

    Titanium Anodization
    This is achieved by controlling the thickness of the TiO2 (Titanium Dioxide) layer formed on the surface (interferes with light waves and produces different colors due to thin-film interference).

    - TiO2: has an extremely high index of refraction with an optical dispersion higher than diamond; Star sapphires and rubies exhibit their asterism as a result of the presence of TiO2.

     No.24

    1. in 1791 Dec, Mozart died in Vienna.
    2. in 1791, Novalis published his first work
    3. in 1791, Schelling read Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" for the first time
    4. in 1791, James Hutton gave up his field work
    5. in 1791, Christian Gotthold Schocher published "Soll die Rede auf immer ein dunkler Gesang bleiben, und können ihre Arten, Gänge und Beugungen nicht anschaulich gemacht, und nach Art der Tonkunst gezeichnet werden?"
    6. in 1791 Dec, William Gregor found the manaccanite: Titanium



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     No.11[Reply]

    I transcribed this important historical document yesterday. With regard to copyright, the original document already states that "Can be reproduced citing the source".

    http://dswarmsikhttkg7jgsoyfiqpj3ighupfrvuz5ri3lu5q2dlqyrpgk7ad.onion/posts/the-4000ers-of-the-alps-offical-uiaa-list.html

    Highest regards to UIAA and CAI!


    >9而我与巨日将生活在一起

    >10 靠近那神圣辐射的最开端
    >11 绚丽极光的最深的黑暗里
    >12 日复一日歌颂曾经的童话
    >13 在天地一万尺之巅的狂风中

     No.12

    File: 1749627954025.jpg (141.09 KB, 960x640,Matterhorn_from_Domhütte.jpg)

    A detailed picture of the north face of the Matterhorn!

     No.22

    File: 1762581744297.jpg (38.98 KB, 630x630,sleep.jpg)

    >Ice Cap Miles Thaw to Freedom.
    >Sets Free Antarctic Legion.
    >Awake Limbs, to Reach A Sun's Rays.
    >Blood Thaws Throughout the Unused Veins.
    >
    >Antarcticans Near the Titan's Base.
    >Matterhorn's Climb Initiates.
    >Mountain's Highest Point Receives.
    >Boards the Skybarge to Cross Skysea.
    >
    >Matterhorn's Children Set Free.
    >From Slab Arise Stoned Priest.
    >Hierophant Sun Prevails.
    >Windship At Last Now Sails.
    >
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     No.3[Reply]

    >in 1894 climbed Beachy Head before visiting the Alps and joining the Scottish Mountaineering Club. The following year he returned to the Bernese Alps, climbing the Eiger, Trift, Jungfrau, Mönch, and Wetterhorn.
    >in 1897 he made the first ascent of the Mönch without a guide
    >In 1902, he was joined in India by Eckenstein and several other mountaineers: Guy Knowles, H. Pfannl, V. Wesseley, and Jules Jacot-Guillarmod. Together, the Eckenstein-Crowley expedition attempted K2, which was never climbed before. On the journey, Crowley was afflicted with influenza, malaria, and snow blindness, and other expedition members were also struck with illness. They reached an altitude of 20,000 feet (6,100 m) before turning back.

     No.13

    File: 1749631796935.png (119.48 KB, 489x491,imageMagick_20250611164925.png)

    >>3
    Found a picture of the 1902 K2 Expedition group.

     No.14

    - Eiger (13,015 ft), Bernese Alps, Switzerland
    - Wetterhorn (12,113 ft), Bernese Alps, Switzerland
    - Jungfrau (13,642 ft), Bernese Alps, Switzerland
    - Mönch (13,480 ft), Bernese Alps, Switzerland
    - Dent Blanche (14,298 ft), Pennine Alps, Switzerland
    - Matterhorn (14,692 ft), Pennine Alps, Switzerland
    - Iztaccíhuatl (17,160 feet), Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico
    - Popocatépetl (17,802 feet), Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico

    https://www.climbing.com/culture/aleister-crowley-the-wickedest-climber-ever/

     No.15


     No.16

    >The Voice of Aiwass came apparently from over my left shoulder, from the furthest corner of the room. It seemed to echo itself in my physical heart in a very strange manner, hard to describe. I have noticed a similar phenomenon when I have been waiting for a message fraught with great hope or dread. The voice was passionately poured, as if Aiwass were alert about the time-limit … The voice was of deep timbre, musical and expressive, its tones solemn, voluptuous, tender, fierce or aught else as suited the moods of the message. Not bass – perhaps a rich tenor or baritone. The English was free of either native or foreign accent, perfectly pure of local or caste mannerisms, thus startling and even uncanny at first hearing. I had a strong impression that the speaker was actually in the corner where he seemed to be, in a body of "fine matter," transparent as a veil of gauze, or a cloud of incense-smoke. He seemed to be a tall, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, active and strong, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw. The dress was not Arab; it suggested Assyria or Persia, but very vaguely. I took little note of it, for to me at that time Aiwass was an "angel" such as I had often seen in visions, a being purely astral.
    >The Equinox of the Gods

    This's really interesting…

     No.17

    I find that over these years, my favourite composition is not only Xenakis' La Légende d’Eer / Bohor, also Scelsi's Aion and Konx-om-pax. Obviously Konx-om-pax was inspired by Crowley.



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     No.9[Reply]

    Avibase Search: A simple Bash script to search for bird species on Avibase based on dmenu interface, with optional proxy support.
    - git: https://git.deep-swarm.xyz/coldxenine/avibase-search
    - mirror: https://git.itinerariummentis.org/coldxenine/avibase-search

    It was because I found Hans A. Traber's birdsong recordings on Tudor:
    - 4 volumes of How Our Birds Sing released by Tudor (download: https://deep-swarm.xyz/share/music/Hans%20A.%20Traber/, download one folder by one folder, don't download four folders at one time)
    - https://play.qobuz.com/album/i8x43nzf2w95a
    - https://play.qobuz.com/album/yrinvq7qy80oa
    - https://play.qobuz.com/album/pt24bjntwh60a
    - https://play.qobuz.com/album/z1c89kquwraba

    really excited then made this simple tool, so far it's very useful for my current focus.

     No.10

    File: 1748238905636.jpg (34.97 KB, 300x300,Traber.3.jpg)

    Now, it supports inputting multiple bird names, e.g., Goldamsel, Zaunkönig, Buchfink, separated by commas. This applies to volume 3-4 track names:
    Mischwald (Goldamsel, Zaunkönig, Buchfink, Amsel, Ringeltaube, Kuckuck, Kohlmeise, Krähe)
    can be used directly for an efficient search.



     No.7[Reply]

    Notable new fabric technologies for outdoor activities.

    Waterproof & breathable
    - Gore-Tex
    - eVent
    - Polartec NeoShell

    Ruggedness
    - Codura

    Fleece
    - Polartec fleece series

    Lightweight
    - Cuben Fiber (DCF - Dyneema Composite Fabric, Originally developed by Cubic Tech)
    - a DCF guidebook: https://deep-swarm.xyz/share/archive/misc/manuals/Baker.Dyneema_Materials_Guide_Ebook.pdf
    - Ultra TNT (developed by Challenge Sailcloth)
    - A blend of nylon and polyester, Highly breathable and quick-drying.
    - Ecopak (developed by Challenge Sailcloth), made from recycled materials.
    Post too long. Click here to view the full text.


     No.4[Reply]

    Racing: Skiing, Road biking
    Climbing: Mountaineering, Rock climbing (especially free climbing), Mountain biking
    Others: Hiking etc.
    I am speaking of the nature of these sports not the current state of focus of sports events. Even if I doing road biking I don't follow road cycling race-events.

    It is very interesting to notice that I always prefer "climbing" activities rather than "racing". Evola thinks that mountain-related sports could be categorized as ascending and descending, but this makes it tough to proper classify rock climbing, which are almost vertical, under the category of ascending. I think rock climbing and diving seem to be opposite-direction activities. However, rock climbing cannot be classified as ascending, and diving cannot be classified as descending. It just feels like this.
    Another observation is climbing activities are spiritual in its nature. Up to now, rock climbing is the most purely spiritual sport. One reason is when it is the case of free climbing, the equipment you rely on is minimal and you make most use of your body and mind. Another reason is that the process of rock climbing has a more subtle randomness and is confined to an almost two-dimensional plane with extremely small cracks exist which you would be highly dependent on. This is also where you make the body moving with wonderful rhythm.

     No.5

    We basically have three indicators to measure the quality of an outdoor activity:
    - Speed / time: the marching speed, exact speeds that calculated precisely by handful devices, such as the elevation gain rate for mountaineering or speeds in kilometers per hour in the case of road cycling. For hiking, it seems that the slower the better, normie-hikers feel like they are in a mode of "unplugged" so the slower, the longer the better. They can finally fully enjoy "the beauty of nature".
    - Routing design: for mountaineering it depends on the understanding of terrains and topography conditions. For hiking etc. :
    - expectations / predictions about the scenery
    - deliberate adventures: the direction of the route for the next few minutes heavily depends on the actual conditions of the previous few minutes. Real-time feedback.
    - Destination: the goal of summiting etc.

    The latter two can be confidently grasped before the outdoor activity begins. Speed depends on the experience gained from repeated training. For this I don't think speed is matter. Repeatitive body training is meaningless and boring.

    With routing design: you can take control and actively make decisions about the route in advance or in the moment, and if the route is poorly considered, it will definitely become an obstacle for the speed. In some extreme situations, it will affect the reaching of destinations or the boolean result of the summiting.

    Routing design is a mixed of many aspects of higher stuffs. That's essentially speculative. This conclusion is highly dependent on experience and the need to integrate thoughts with perceptive experience.

    Hiking is attractive to company slaves and they form very large groups for hiking together. They have also brought a certain commercialized style into mountaineering. To be honest, hiking is very striking for its "purposeless". Except for those who are really doing researches or field investigations, most hikers are just consuming nature in order to elevate themselves. They will immediately try to elevate their souls to a sameness state with nature, or deliberately maintain respect for nature. Hiking is not a modern outdoor activity. I would say it is actually very ancient and not really an outdoor activity.

     No.6

    >>5
    >Hiking is attractive to company slaves
    LMAOOOO I just found some epic words made by Evola:

    >we should save the mountains from the contaminating

    >invasion of tourists who attempt to conquer them by building their “civ-
    >ilized” base camps. I am not just referring to those faint-hearted youths
    >who bring with them to popular mountain resorts their vain, mundane
    >city habits (such as discos and tennis courts), and who snobbishly display
    >the colorful new equipment they’ve bought to use only for some harm-
    >less walk in the woods. I am also referring to those who tamish silent
    >and uncontaminated places with materialism and triviality, namely with
    >a competitive spirit and a mania for that which is difficult and unusual,
    >for the sake of setting new records.

    Evola is so successful of being a half-philosopher LMFAOOOOO



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     No.1[Reply]

    Rock hammers, magnetic compasses, hand lenses, field book, field recorder etc.

     No.2

    My first geological hammer Estwing E3-16BLC is on the way, I also bought a small compass and prepared an Outdoor research seattle rain-hat (classic blue one) for general field work. It's really difficult to find a focus for geological work, especially for a novice. The most breathless thing is that it's hard for me not to pay attention to the tools, the gears. Geological work is obviously very dependent on tools. Before making your own special tools, you have to learn all the tools they provide.



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