geordief

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0308/1436684-trees-climate/

"The Tiny Forest concept was pioneered by a Japanese botanist, Akira Miyawaki. He pioneered a special method of planting and ground preparation that can be used to grow forests ten times faster than a typical forest (which usually takes 200 to 300 years"

"Usually up to five saplings are planted for every square metre and as a result, the trees are forced to grow upwards for sunlight instead of spreading outwards"

51 minutes ago, exchemist said:

Get the smallest you can. Then there is some chance you can the damned thing into a pocket. 

It is difficult to get a small one.I got this by going to a reconditioned phone website.

It is 2017 and a 4 inch screen.

There was an awful problem getting a battery for it  ,though (the battery it came with was on its last legs) as they don't ship them in aircraft any more and I had to visit phone stores around town to look for old batteries  from broken phones.

I prefer these smaller screens  for convenience even though they are no doubt harder to read.

21 minutes ago, Sensei said:

 

 

..then who made up the Universe.. ?

 

The universe?

52 minutes ago, John Cuthber said:

Has anyone done this joke yet?
 

 Not when I search. They don't batter embryos in Alabama?(a bit deadpan)

1 hour ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

I can see it now..."High sperm count men in the lifeboats first!"

Woody Allen might need some kind of a disclaimer before screenings of his "All you Wanted to Know about Sex but were Afraid to Ask."

"No human beings were massacred or demeaned in the  making of this movie"

@Genady  Don't worry.I generally /often just quote content rather than the particular poster.

Feel free to jump in .

1 hour ago, John Cuthber said:

mean that it's impossible to define your speed with respect to a vacuum

If the vacuum  is filled with quantum foam (a big "if" ,as I don't understand what that means) could an object's speed/velocity be referred to different locations in that quantum foam?

Does the term "location" not apply ,perhaps wrt quantum foam?

Said in another way ,could  the quantum foam be considered to be  a medium?

5 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

Trump's down for another judgement of $350m-ish. The judgement summary:

 

Seems a lot but the prosecution's case was that it was representative of the profit he made on his misrepresentations.

I think he should  be fined extra just for being who he is.

We should give him the witch hunt he claims he is getting.

(Has he claimed Brit Ekland was  begging for it yet?)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68221243

"Three students have won a $700,000 prize after using AI to read a 2,000-year-old scroll burnt during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD."

This is a great story .A few years back there was talk as to whether these (or similar scrolls) would be legible and now there seems a lot of optimism because of new technology available .

1 hour ago, StringJunky said:

But have you got the obligatory Hunter wellington boots and Barbour jacket in the boot?

I  normally  go around  wearing  wellies and a Barbour Jacket (but only drive a small Toyota Yaris )

The man at the  shop checkout did point out that it was a cool outfit.

13 hours ago, TheVat said:

I just learned a British slang for pricey SUVs: wankpanzers.  

Perfect.

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68196828

The price went up a bit.

Parking in Paris for  so called non resident ambulato-mechanical  onanists has  now  tripled. 

16 minutes ago, swansont said:

It’s a dangerous thing when people give pop-sci explanations, and from it people think they understand the underlying science.

 

Do you think Susskind was giving a pop-sci explanation?

Would that not be frowned upon  in the formal setting of what I assumed was a lecture (at Stanford ,I think)?

I think in this case he did preface his remarks by saying most would disagree.

28 minutes ago, swansont said:

This suggests you don’t know what entanglement is, or what was being proposed. How do you entangle space? What properties would be entangled?

How would entanglement create spacetime? 

I looked at the Susskind video.He seems to be saying that adjacent regions of space contain particles (virtual particles,was it?) that are entangled.

So the property of space being entangled (if I understood the lecture) was its property of containing  entangled particles close to  either side of a line dividing it.(not just at the event horizon  of a BH but generally)

And I think Susskind did refer to this as "space being entangled"

I found that extraordinary and I  think perhaps most  physicists may disagree with that (Susskind's caveat) but ,if that is accepted then he goes on to say that that might violate " entanglement monogamy"

4 minutes ago, ovidiu t said:

Some of our processes are instantaneous. I am particular thinking at driving experience, for example.

You have to be specific. Until you do I say that this is incorrect.

32 minutes ago, ovidiu t said:

Must be some species preservation mechanisms. Joggling between "past" experiences and "predicting on the go" the present?  

Not sure what you mean.Our brains have no choice but to extrapolate from past data to create a "virtual present" and a likely future.

Our brain processes are not instant and that is how we and every entity ,a;live or non-sentient  live.

It is "freedom within boundaries" .

As the expression goes ,time is what stops everything happening at the same time.(or words to that effect)

edit "“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” John Archibald Wheeler

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/30075.John_Archibald_Wheeler

15 minutes ago, ovidiu t said:

a bit off topic: at individual level, the way the consciousness is "awake" and building the reality is already altering the process of understanding the present or it has  something to do with it. I am referring at "time slices" of consciousness every 400 millisecondes.

 

The present is the prisoner of the law of synchronicity/simultaneity. To grasp the present, Time would need to be absolute in value. 

 

As  the "time slices" of the brain become theoretically smaller (approach zero) the amount of energy required to process data approaches infinity (=impossibility)Our brains can observe  the world  for the very reason that  we cannot do that(grasp the "present")

12 minutes ago, Time Traveler said:

In my opinion it is a big problem because the observations who the observer makes is like he observes a cloud who has now form of a mountain  and his conclusion is , there is a mountain  in the cloud

We all make mistakes and hopefully learn from those mistakes.

We cannot know everything and have to apply our resources to those things that we can most accurately know and which are likely to be most beneficial or of most consequence.

If something  is unclear to us we can investigate further and it may become clearer.

2 hours ago, StringJunky said:

You routinely make such statements with no context or explanation. Do you get a kick out of being purposely vague? This is my thread. Please stop. Telepathy is not one of my talents.

On topic: I think the true long term intent of the present administration is clear in the Defence Minister's statement in answer to the US's statement admonishing the settler's current exploitative tactics in the West Bank:

 

This Smotrich guy?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/12/31/israeli-minister-reiterates-calls-for-palestinians-to-leave-gaza

Not the Defence Minister-the Finance Minister and excluded from the War Cabinet  from my cursory knowledge.

22 minutes ago, swansont said:

Things that sounds like “that’s simply not done because we’ve never done it” i.e. a very conservative, non-empirical response. Consistent with the description John Cleese gives in “A Fish Called Wanda”

Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing

Not “don’t do that, it tastes awful” which would be empirical though subjective. Or “do it if it’s to your liking” No, it’s “that’s not the proper way to do it, personal enjoyment be damned”

Think you are reading too much in to it.

Myself otoh bought one of Cleese's books *(and I  might buy just one or two books a decade) and was unable to "read into it"  more than the first 10 or so pages ,so earnest  it seemed to me.

Well my concentration/absorption  levels have dipped the last good few years (I felt the same about Hemingway  who I also thought would be an interesting read)

* Life and How to Survive It

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/life-and-how-to-survive-it_john-cleese_robin-skynner/637920/#edition=2384136&idiq=15047948

13 minutes ago, TheVat said:

So it's okay to add Cream to a forum thread?

 

That's a load of Clap.

Some strange brew going down  in this thread,man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftgytmgQgE

"A  witch of trouble in  electric blue" 

yes ,blue crockery does it for me.

59 minutes ago, swansont said:

I fund it interesting that the pushback I’ve seen on this is that it goes against tradition rather than evaluating whether or not it makes for better tea.

That is because it is (apparently) only of very incremental interest to the consumer of the beverage whereas the cultural significance of the drinking of the tea is far more  important.

There is also the humour involved in the Boston Tea Party  where the English and the Americans are free to have a good laugh at each other if they want to.

You kicked us out of your country using the "tea issue" at  the outset but we are the ones who (in our minds at least) actually know how to use the stuff.

Any coincidence that the phrase "a storm in a teacup" is still fairly widely used?

The Japanese also hold tea in high estime(not so sure about other countries)

Don't see what "pushback" you mean.

I am sure it may well make a difference in the taste but ,personally speaking I have never added sugar to tomatoes even though it is well known that it makes it taste better and is often recommended in recipes.....

32 minutes ago, sethoflagos said:

It does. Been recycling tepid tea that way for years.

But tea (-making)is a social occasion ,a ritual of sorts I always felt.

Do you offer up warmed up old tea to your friends and visitors?

22 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

Nothing gets through OUR wall, esspecially Canadians... 

Are you quite sure there is no Muscovite Mica in the building blocks?

Salt can be an insidious menace that builds up and crosses boundaries  over time

https://www.thejournal.ie/mica-explainer-5467214-Jun2021/

1 minute ago, dimreepr said:

Oh boy, it's really kicking off over here, all the builder's have vowed to creat a wall to protect their elevenses. 

I have heard  some of the sugar cubes  imported  via Canada may have been predoped with  a sodium substitute.