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Old 05-16-2018, 12:50 AM
 
Location: Russia
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Sverdlovsk region. Photographer Yakov Kulikov.

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Old 05-16-2018, 01:01 AM
 
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Has anyone here been to the Komandorski (commander) islands?
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Old 05-16-2018, 01:02 AM
 
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Has anyone here been to the Komandorski (commander) islands?
Are you planning a trip?
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Old 05-16-2018, 03:06 AM
 
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Are you planning a trip?
Someday. I've always been fascinated by unusual places. This was the place where Georg Wilhelm Steller discovered the aptly named Steller's sea cow. It would be nice to see where they once lived. Bearing Island has no trees and is sparsely populated, but the landscape is quite interesting.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Steller

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller%27s_sea_cow
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Old 05-16-2018, 09:36 AM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Yeah maybe it is better than being beaten to death on the street.
I thought the most efficient and preferred method was poisoning?
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Old 05-16-2018, 10:58 AM
 
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Or you beat yourself to death in your hotel room while in a state of intoxication, according to the FBI.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...his-hotel-room

Claims like the above are usually made by brutal state security services which don't have to fear they'll be contradicted by the state-run media.
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Old 05-16-2018, 01:54 PM
 
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I thought the most efficient and preferred method was poisoning?
According to British politicians it must be. I don't think Ukrops would be capable of something so sophisticated, they can't even do face jobs right. Beating a Moskal to death on the street when he voices an opinion and exercises his right to free speech is much more those apes style because that's about all they have the ability to do.
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Old 05-16-2018, 02:02 PM
 
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Someday. I've always been fascinated by unusual places. This was the place where Georg Wilhelm Steller discovered the aptly named Steller's sea cow. It would be nice to see where they once lived. Bearing Island has no trees and is sparsely populated, but the landscape is quite interesting.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Steller

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller%27s_sea_cow
Try getting a canoe or even building a raft yourself and floating down the Volga. Start in Tver and go all the way to the Caspian. One of these days I want to do it.
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Old 05-16-2018, 02:08 PM
 
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Someday. I've always been fascinated by unusual places. This was the place where Georg Wilhelm Steller discovered the aptly named Steller's sea cow. It would be nice to see where they once lived. Bearing Island has no trees and is sparsely populated, but the landscape is quite interesting.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Steller

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller%27s_sea_cow
I know a couple of women who had a project going there, with the local Aleut population. They found remains of a Stellar's sea cow there, and were working with scientists in Canada and the US to try to base some science tourism on that, or something. They also were working on marketing Native crafts. You can get there from Kamchatka. And you can get to Kamchatka pretty easily on weekly summer flights from Anchorage, on an airline operated out of Yakutia.
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Old 05-16-2018, 04:17 PM
 
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I know a couple of women who had a project going there, with the local Aleut population. They found remains of a Stellar's sea cow there, and were working with scientists in Canada and the US to try to base some science tourism on that, or something. They also were working on marketing Native crafts. You can get there from Kamchatka. And you can get to Kamchatka pretty easily on weekly summer flights from Anchorage, on an airline operated out of Yakutia.
Interesting. I was under the impression that most of the knowledge regarding the existence of Steller's sea cows came from descriptions made by Steller himself in his notes. I never knew that some remains were actually found. I'll have to look it up.
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