Sedalia Dave

In exploring this rabbit hole I discovered that a third person has explored Challenger Deep. About 12 years ago, James Cameron designed and built a vessel that descended into the Mariana Trench.

What is a Solar Prominence? Picture for scale A solar eruptive prominence as seen in extreme UV light on March 30, 2010 with Earth superimposed for a sense of scale. Credit: NASA/SDO A solar prominence (also known as a filament when viewed against the solar disk) is a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun’s surface. Prominences are anchored to the Sun’s surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona. A prominence forms over timescales of about a day, and stable prominences may persist in the corona for several months, looping hundreds of thousands of miles into space. Scientists are still researching how and why prominences are formed. The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas comprised of electrically charged hydrogen and helium. The prominence plasma flows along a tangled and twisted structure of magnetic fields generated by the sun’s internal dynamo. An erupting prominence occurs when such a structure becomes unstable and bursts outward, releasing the plasma.

After Totality

Totality The Diamond Ring just before totality Notice the Solar Prominence at 3 and 5 o'clock

Pics leading up to totality Close up showing a couple of Sun Spots

These were taken by my good Friend Dennis. He was on the bank of the Current River in Doniphan Mo. It's a time sequence from beginning to end shot with a low power telescope. On the shots taken with a solar filter you can see a couple of sun spots. First some general pictures. Krispy Kreme Eclipse doughnut.

I'm pretty sure the scope is a Trijicon VCOG. Although the scope in the OP's picture has some sort of logo on the side of the tube.

That 92 loaded with .357 magnums will make a great truck gun.

You will never get a 16" 38/357 R92 to work properly for CAS. Even with an action job you will never get it to hold more than 8 rounds and cycle properly. Watch a shooter spend a lot of time and money trying to make one work. Eventually he gave up and got a rifle better suited to CAS. You can make a R92 with a 20" barrel work very well for CAS. I've been shooting one since I started and it runs flawlessly after a proper action job and ammo of the correct OAL. I am by no means a top shooter. I usually finish middle of the pack. However starting with rifle staged and hands on hat I can shoot two identical 5 shot sweeps in about 5 seconds. Which is not too shabby for an old fat man that doesn't practice.

A properly sized squib rod and a pure lead round ball will remove annularly split cases.

Just me but I prefer to not use spur chains or any other kind of tie down on my spurs. That way they can move up if I happen to catch one on a step. Makes them less of a trip hazard on steps or stairs.

I'm shooting both .38 and .357 with a compressed load of BP and don't have any issues with excessive blow back in my R92. Bullet weights run from 130 to 158

How long is your rifle barrel? With non-Big Lube bullets lubed with SPG and a 20" barrel I don't have any issues.

I'm saying that it was photoshopped by someone before it was officially posted via social media not after the fact. I have never seen anything other than an ACOG that had an integral mount. That scope doesn't look like any ACOG I have ever seen. Found a picture of the scope it is a Trijicon VCOG. Still when you blow up the picture the scope appears to be attached to the receiver and it appears to also be mounted to the handguard rail as well. That is what makes me so sad that someone within the Navy thought it was a good idea to photo shop the picture and then allow it to be posted it to the Navy's social media page. I guarantee that somebodies derriere is going to end up explaining this to the old man and they are going to regret doing this.

Obviously photo shopped, No scope rings plus other inaccuracies. Some Photographers Mate is going to find out what its like to scrub bilges with a tooth brush when Cmdr Yaste tracks them down. Commanding officers don't have a sense of humor when they are the subject matter. Especially, when the photo of them was released via official Navy channels.