Wildhorse mesa
First posted
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December 19, 2005 07:40
Updated
Thursday May 11, 2006 14:12
| Sunday December 18, 2005 about 13:00 bill decided to practice
S&W .22 pistol shooting. So about 100 miles of essential
non-gas-wasting travel was required. Here are the targets. ![]() Trying to hit a 12 gauge shotshell hull from about 30-40 feet is quite challenging. When you hit a shotshell hull with a .22 hollow point, they frequently fly as far as 50 feet! Beer cans can fly as far as about 10 feet. No shortage of these targets on southwest deserts.
Here's looking northwest from Wildhorse mesa. ![]() That's mount Taylor. Grants, NM is just to the left where the mountains meet the horizon. Large trucks can be seen on I40. It will be interesting to view this scene five years in the future if the Peak Oil people are right! In the 1940s and 1950s, a Shell geologist named M. King Hubbert observed that the production from any given oil field follows a bell curve, with annual volumes increasing until half the oil in the field is depleted, and declining thereafter. Basically, the bottom oil is harder to extract. King reasoned that production from all U.S. fields would follow a similar curve and predicted in 1956 that total U.S. oil production would peak in the early 1970s. His analysis caused a furor and was widely disparaged, but proved correct. "Hubbert's Peak" entered the lexicon of oil analysisone of the great geological I-told-you-so's. Forty-nine years later, a growing number of noted geologists and industry analysts suggest that the global oil supply may now be topping out, a claim that has been met by skepticism from yet other geologists and economists who say higher prices will spawn both more discovery and improved recovery from existing fields. Whoever [bill is exactly 45 days younger than Saddam ... but
hopes to outlive Saddam, dubya helping, of course] takes the photo may
have to bicycle to this spot then.
Here's approaching Albuquerque at about 16:15 on I40 starting
down Nine mile hill. |