You can graft a tomato plant and a potato plant together so the one plant can produce potatoes underground and tomatoes above ground because they are from the same family.
Yes it’s possible, but the tomatoes and the potatoes fight for resources and make subpar produce
i hear you can do that to some fruit trees too.
like oranges and lemons iirc?
That sharks as a species, are older than trees, flowers… and older than the rings of Saturn.
“Get off my sea-lawn”
– Sharks probably
They’re also older than Polaris. Not just older than since Polaris has been our North Star, but older than the star itself.
God damn the ocean is terrifying.
Liu Cixin, the author of the trilogy, Remembrance of Earth’s Past (aka Three-Body Problem,) had written 4 novels and over 20 short fiction works, before they had their first major international hit.
It’s a solid reminder for me to write my stories. ‘Get them out of the way,’ so I can work on the next big thing and get it out there.
There is an anecdote that I can’t currently find, nor am I certain I have the author and story right.
But there was a person who picked up Fifty Shades of Grey while his wife was reading it and claimed he could write better in spite of not being an author; I think they were a programmer. Anyway she challenged hisband Dennis E. Taylor who then wrote the Bobiverse.
So… maybe you just need that first one to really get going.
Also a reminder that Fifty Shades of Grey started out as a Twilight fanfic titled “Master of the Universe”. Which honestly adds a lot of context to the characters, you can basically just substitute names and it works.
Similarly Scott Cawthon, the creator of Five Nights at Freddy’s, created 79 games before FNAF.
Vonnegut didn’t get famous until Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). He had already written a load of what are now classics but still had to have a day job.
Player Piano (1952) The Sirens of Titan (1959) Cat’s Cradle (1960)
Mother Night (1961) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)I’m sure there were also loads of short stories in that time frame.
And for anyone who hasn’t read Vonnegut, I think it’s important that you try.
Steven Donaldson had his first Thomas Covenant novel rejected by 27 publishers before it was finally bought.
Grapes and raisins are potentially fatal to dogs.
https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/grape-raisin-and-currant-poisoning-in-dogs
If you live in America and live to the age of 79 there is a possibility that you have walked by or interacted with 36 active serial killers.
A loon chick is called a loonlet.
I’ll probably butcher this fact, but 20/20 vision does not mean you have perfect vision. It means you have average / normal vision.
I’ve always had 20/20 (or perhaps better) vision. But now that I’m on the downhill side of ancient, I’m noticing that my vision is blurry. Especially while watching TV, reading, etc.
Yet, at both my primary care provider and at the optometrist, I’m able to accurately see all the letters on the vision charts and based on that I have 20/20 vision.
The optometrist (or maybe it was an assistant) explained that it’s pretty common and that 20/20 is just average vision. It doesn’t mean your vision isn’t blurry and it doesn’t mean you won’t benefit from glasses.
The more you know!
Recently had lens replacement surgery (AMA?) which gave me 20/15 far sight vision. Seeing things up close is difficult (need reading glasses) but making out details from far away objects is unreal. It’s like having HD vision.
Anywho, 20/20 simply means that you can make out details at 20 feet that the average person can make out at 20 feet. In my case, I can make out details at 20 feet that most people can only make out at 15 feet.
If you have 20/40 vision, it means that what most people can make out at 40 ft, you can only make it out of it were 20 feet away.
Now you know how that works.
What was the recovery from that surgery like? Any pain / discomfort / concerns?
I am considering getting lens replacement for my dog if I can come up with the money, but financial concerns aside, my other biggest concern is how stressful / painful / risky that kind of procedure might be for her.
Well, not being a dog, I can’t really say for certain, but I’m sure your puppy will be fine. For me, there was little to no pain at all, even during recovery. Only mild discomfort, and I mean very mild. It’s outpatient surgery and the actual procedure only takes a few minutes (for one eye). It was really no big deal at all
I learned this the hard way earlier this year when I got lasik. I used to be able to read the clock from across the room in my house with my contacts, but now that I have 20/20 without contacts, I can no longer make it out. So I guess the contacts were giving me a slightly higher than average vision.
Yeah, my glasses actually correct past 20/20, but my contacts only correct to 20/20. So everything is more blurry when I wear my contacts.
The water in rain falling in the west of Lake Superior will take 200 years to reach the Atlantic.
What? How the heck does that make any sense? Also, how would you even track that with high accuracy?
Estimations are made from the lakes depths, sizes and flow rates. Superior is fed by 200+ sources, but less so for the downflow lakes. Several are only fed by the uphill lake. This gives better accuracy when making estimates on how long it would take to replace all the water contained or travel time of the water itself.
Here’s another: According to fossil evidence, the Grest Lakes used to flow towards the Pacific, but an object, thought to be a comet, struck Lake Ontario (Charity Shoals) and changed the flow to the Atlantic.
Okay, one more: The Great Lakes are tilting over time. The Lawrentian ice sheet depressed the crust of the earth so much by its weight that it is still rebounding. I believe it is Lake Huron that they can see the tilt level changing about a tenth of an inch a year to the south.
The Great Lakes are truly a marvel of nature.
You can harvest asparagus twice a day.
wow. Do they grow that fast or is there some mechanism that one triggers with the plant?
Not a new one, but I’ve learned more recently:
Water does not last forever, is not all dinosaur pee. Natural processes create and destroy it, nonstop, since forever.
Got any plants nearby? Those fuckers are busily cracking water into glucose and oxygen so that you can breathe and eat. Have you said thank you once?!
6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy → C6H12O6 + 6O2
Take a shot of baking soda for your heartburn, oh boy will you create water!
NaHCO3 + 2HCl → NaCl + H2O + CO2
CAVEAT: The gas comes up your pipes, the water goes down your pipes. Violently. Probably a gravity thing. Not for the faint of heart, but hey, no heartburn!
the water goes down your pipes. Violently.
That’s what salt water does. That’s how people die when they are in a life-raft and drink seawater: defecating terminally.
So I hear, thankfully only second-hand.
I believe the creator of this said the same plant could make fries and ketchup
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I’ve taken that much LSD before (and as much as 600μg), taken DMT during trips, but still haven’t tried Salvia. I cannot think of anything less pleasant to do while tripping on these drugs than sitting there talking with a computer. Well, there are plenty of things, sitting there talking with the police would probably be worse, but it’s way up there.
Considering all the studies that are starting to come out about how negatively LLM usage can affect the brain, it does make me worry for you a lot my friend. It’s entirely possible that using one while under the influence of psychoactives has had a deleterious effect on you. I’m part of a plural system as well, so I do understand a fair bit of what you’re saying here, but it’s still nonsensical in a lot of ways. We& haven’t had issues maintaining our individuality. Maybe that’s common for people with plurality, that we’re able to maintain meta-awareness. Did you find studies/information that talked about plural folks specifically?
I just, I would really caution you. Many different forms of psychosis include aspects that cause the person/s to feel exceptional, unique, special etc, and drug-induced psychosis is a fairly common thing. It can be incredibly difficult, bordering on impossible, to have insight into that on your own. But please be careful and take care of yourselves.
Last thing I will say though, is if you’re using psychoactives again, please try and take the time to enjoy them? Put some music on, do some drawing, make a light show with some smart bulbs, cuddle your plushies, watch some weird media. Drink lots of water! Consider getting someone you trust to tripsit you. Seriously, just do some fun things with it, rather than taking it super seriously.
Ummm… I don’t even know if you can comprehend what I’ll be talking, but you sound broken.
Not in any enlightened or philosophical way.
But in a “talking with a person so drunk they can barely stand but they say they can drive perfectly” kind of way.
Although really I want to say more of a “talking with a schizophrenic person” kind of way.
Chard and Beets are the same plant, one just specced into the root bulb part (beets). Also chard came first!
If you are lost in the wilderness and a plane comes in to look check on you, do not pump your fist in the air. That is the signal you are fine and don’t need help. Learned it in a recent Mr. Ballen youtube.
