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Rockbadchild said:
Most people seem to not know this, timber wolf is a gray wolf... there is only two type of wolf (other then hybrids) in north America gray wolf and eastern wolf.
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The Eastern (AKA Red) wolf really is endangered... unlike it's larger cousin which has recovered nicely since we stopped trying to wipe them out.
There are a lot of people who would like to see grays back in Maine but I hope that doesn't happen until they are taken off the ES list. They hunt them right next door in Canada.
 
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Probably the world's largest diesel engine. 14 cylinder, 2 stroke, 110,000 hp, 100 RPM. Used in container ships.

Edit: The Wartsilla-RT-flex96C's bore is 960mm, the stroke is 2500mm, giving each cylinder a displacement of 18,095 liters. So a 14 cylinder engine's displacement is a whopping 253,337 liters, or over 15 million cubic inches. That's a big'un.

Wartsille-Sulzer RTA96c 14 Cylinder #1.jpg
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I don't want to be in the belly of a container ship, but it would be cool to listen to that engine labor.
 
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Jstpssng said:
The Eastern (AKA Red) wolf really is endangered... unlike it's larger cousin which has recovered nicely since we stopped trying to wipe them out.
There are a lot of people who would like to see grays back in Maine but I hope that doesn't happen until they are taken off the ES list. They hunt them right next door in Canada.
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Sorry but you got that one wrong... the eastern wolf and the red wolf are two distinct subspecies. To be honest I didn't mentioned the red wolf because I didn't think there was any left, but there is a small population of Red wolves left in the northeastern of North Carolina.
 
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Rockbadchild said:
Sorry but you got that one wrong... the eastern wolf and the red wolf are two distinct subspecies. To be honest I didn't mentioned the red wolf because I didn't think there was any left, but there is a small population of Red wolves left in the northeastern of North Carolina.
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I also got the eastern coyote confused with the eastern cougar... the latter is indeed considered extinct.
 
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We have a different invasion in the Mojave this year. Again a moderately wet winter and now we have tens of thousands of grass hoppers. I can remember 5 to 10 years ago before the severe drought we had a similar episode. Where did the go during that time?
 
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