StringJunky

Read that first article; very interesting. I've always had a soft spot for worms and humus. I am not averse to saving a worm stranded on a path to be placed back on a friendlier surface. I am in agreement with the author: it is not the "invasive" worms fault; it's us.

A lot of the modern hardware and software standards are incompatible with Windows 98. It can be run in a virtual machine run by a modern PC though I think.

Yes, Google paying £11m Corporation Tax on £3.4bn UK revenues is a fine example of the level they'll stoop to.

Science doesn't do proof; we are not doing maths. If we can ascertain to a confidence level exceeding 95%, then that conclusion will be judged to be correct.

Residual percussion effects in the ground around the tree resulting from it falling and structural trauma in the tree itself.

By understanding the conditions and behaviour required for trees to grow the way they do.

Extra-terrestrial exploration is a fine balance between available energy, weight, resources and the limitations of communicating with something so far away. Having tools in situ that can give us the experience to the level that CGI gives is not feasible to do 'live'.

The way I look at it is that sound is an experiential thing and necessitates an observer whereas perturbations don't. I suppose it depends on what those perturbations interact with, and the product of that interaction, that determines what we call it. For example those interactions could have a visual product rather than a sonic one via some appropriate device/sense.

Happy New Year to everyone.

I assumed he was referring to "Hitch-hikers Guide...".

We know that a falling tree produces a sound, when we are there which is the result of perturbations, so we extrapolate that in our absence, the tree will very likely produce perturbations. We can only be sure to a high degree of probability but we can't be certain ..if we are being pernickety about it.

A sound is something experienced by an observer, so, in the absence of one there is no sound BUT there are perturbations travelling through the air/ground from the falling tree which could be sensed as sound if an observer was there. I think it's an observer-dependent phenomenon.

If you want to mess about with Hosts, Hostman is handy tool for interacting/modifying it. You can select hosts lists as well to download with it.

http://www.wettropics.gov.au/site/user-assets/docs/butterflydefencestrategies.pdf

Right. I don't often look at the Who's Online list so I don't notice.It'll only interest Cap'n Refsmat as admin and the general site computer geek I think...that's a software nuisance rather than a people one. We've spoken about XRumer before PMing. I think he does what can with it but it's always evolving with any new forum countermeasures as you probably realise.

How do you know it's XRumer? I don't think it does malware, it's a legal software...spambot....legal pain in the arse.

We were born with the instinct to lift correctly... but then... we unlearn it as we grow older!

Yes, just because a paper is paywalled at one site doesn't mean that it is elsewhere. I can more often than not find free access by copy/pasting the title in Google.

Maybe, they follow the mottos "You have to speculate to accumulate " or "You reap what you sow". Even though this is obviously not a cognitive effort on ther part, if they follow an automatic behaviour pattern of pulling plant matter into the ground they can make their environment more moisture-retentive, easier for personal transport and aerobically more hospitable in the long term. Eventually they can graze on the matter they pulled down, which will be in various states of decomposition, ensuring continuous nutrition. It looks to me like an evolutionarily advantageous strategy.

Ccleaner can securely wipe it (and other folders) if it bothers you without removing it (free one). You need to set it to secure wipe in Options > Settings otherwise it just deletes which is not the same. You can get it to run at start up in Settings as well.

This might interest you arc: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jgg/issue/archive.

You are absolutely right in your approach. I forgot this is the Maths section and the rules are specific to avoid confusion for serious learners of established principles. Apologies.

So what was the path organisms followed to manifest as they are now?

I think you need to lighten up.

No idea, but Unity is interested even if he doesn't manage it. Even if one doesn't achieve ones goal exploring we always learn something new about the landscape we've just explored.