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Sounds like putting a hole in the capsule would increase the pickup noise.

Wrong, Ed, that it used to be different.

I wasn't suggesting you were obfuscating; I was saying you are wrong.

First you firmly assert one stance (contradicting me) with an added recommendation to neuter the first amendment, then you end by conceding you simply don't know. Sheesh! The Heritage Guide to the Constitution

The media is as the media does. No whining. From town criers, to pamphlets, to newspapers & magazines, to the interweb, the same motivations have held sway. The 1st amendment to the US constitution was not written in a vacuum and behooves the reader to beware. Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. ~Benjamin Franklin

In a word, chance. The right constituents under the right circumstance result in an emergent property. The constituents are the chemicals, the circumstances we are yet investigating. Lightning, cosmic ray, or temperature to name a few possible circumstances.

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I'm all aboard on not enough water to flood Earth and ice being less dense than water per unit volume, but ice does flow as is evidenced by glaciers.

Seems you could use the rules of exponents to shorten the work. ax*ay=ax+y so 32500*32500=35000 I'm sure you can shorten it more with a little thought, but I think that gets the idea across. Addendum: Started thinking about Ed's mention of the number of written numerals and paper used in light of my suggestion so I worked out 310 long as L. Meow is doing and then short as 35*35. The long way I count 19 lines and 39 numerals and my short way I count 15 lines and 33 numerals. A modest improvement but an improvement none-the-less. PS I didn't write down the carries digits so none are in my counts.

Nice! Are you going to go Peter Piper and pickle your peppers? Dehydrating is a good preservation choice as well. If you don't have a dehydrator you can Sun dry the peppers or dry them in an oven. Another of my native plant propagation projects this year is Common Camas - Camassia quamash. This one is indeed a vegetable crop, though I have never eaten it. This is my first time growing them from seed, and I planted them in Fall in a rectangular pot using a mix of native soil and potting soil. I left them outside to take advantage of the normal freeze cycle and light cycle. From Wiki: Camassia quamash In spite of the warning about Death Camas there @ Wiki, Native Americans knew exactly which bulb they were digging and eating. They also regularly burned off prairies to get rid of woody plants and keep the prairie open. So important a food source was this plant that Native Americans even battled over possession of prairies. Common Camas - Camassia quamash Seedlings: Flowers: Seeds:

Roundup® is far cheaper, and yes spraying gasoline is polluting worse than Roundup®. (The toxicity of glyphosate is unsettled, but there is no doubt about gasoline.) Moreover, it's likely illegal to spray gasoline and it may well attack plastics in the sprayer. Apply the weed killer according to directions and you minimize the likelihood of it reaching water sources. If you want to avoid any chemical use, dig out the weeds by hand.

No; that's no help. Yes; I know the buds are edible and that's what I was growing them for. My problem was that the sprouts (which are the flower buds) never formed to edible size in a growing season. Again no help. If you let Brussels sprouts flower then there is no sprout to eat. I am (was) not interested in growing them for seed. Thanks anyway and good luck with those lemon trees. In the spirit of propagation, one of my projects began leafing out about a week ago. In spite of the name Mock Orange, this is neither a fruit nor vegetable so I appeal for some leniency. I took a few cuttings last Summer and dipped them in rooting hormone powder and put them in 4" pots. I left them outside, but under a translucent cover so as not to sun burn them and I kept them well watered. Last Fall I moved them to 6" pots. First photo is today; second photo is of the blooms on the original plant last Summer. Philadelphus lewisii PS The wire screen is to keep the squirrels from digging in the pot to bury nuts.

If you are sealing the fridge then the desiccants mentioned by the others will work. Without the desiccants the moisture evaporating from the paint can saturate the trapped air and may even condense on the fridge interior or helmets. Another option is to use a dehumidifier in the fridge or other closed off space you make. This small dehumidifier is rated for a 110ft2* room, consumes only 22.5 watts and only costs $60. >> Eva-Dry EDV-1100 Petite Dehumidifier *Presuming a 7 ft. ceiling the volume would be 770 ft3

I was responding to your comment that they aren't common and the implication such use wasn't viable. Discussion ensues.

Gyros are often used to stabilize boats. Seakeeper - Gyro Stabilizers for Stabilization of Naval Vessels For a space application, see Control moment gyroscopes as used on the ISS.

Vertebrate Flight Exhibit @ Berkely

Now your turn to equivocate. Ed is and was wrong and there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Do us all the favor of following your own admonition and move on.

Nevertheless, your claim that the particles reflect sunlight and their falling out caused cooling during the flight restrictions is false. Again, it is the ice crystals that reflect light to cause cooling. Moreover, while all contrails result from jet exhaust not all jet exhaust results in contrails.

Too bad if it sounds harsh. I don't deny climate change nor did I imply any such thing. Ed made a comment on particles settling to Earth as accounting for warming after the 9/11 attacks and I showed he was wrong. He then equivocated the evidence I gave by saying "Smoke in the contrails is particulates.", and that is also wrong. (Contrails aren't "smoke"; they are ice crystals condensed on particulates. The ice is what reflects light and causes cooling, not the particulates themselves.) Then Ed moved on to equivocate over the legitimacy of Dr. Guy McPherson saying "History tells of several scientists who pronounced things ahead of their ideas being generally accepted,...", after evidence was given that McPherson's a crank and I called out that equivocation as a logical fallacy. Your further speculations on mini ice ages etcetera have nothing to do with the topic of Dr. Guy McPherson's legitimacy. Good grief.

I don't claim to know who is right in the climate discussion. It is a complex system. I am not an expert. I don't know. McPherson may be wrong; I hope he is. I was merely pointing out that being in the minority doesn't necessarily mean a person is wrong. And I am merely pointing out that you have no rational basis for your equivocations.

Galileo gambit @ RationalWiki

Erhm...the sunlight reflected by those particulates is nil in comparison to the contrails' water vapor reflectivity. If the particulates were significant I'd expect them to receive mention in my nice reference; they do not. If you have an acceptable reference to the contrary, please provide it.

Presumably you are referring to air traffic shutdown after the 9/11 attacks. If so, it wasn't particulates falling out that led to a temperature increase, rather it was the clearing of the skies of jet aircrafts' contrails. 9/11 study: Air traffic affects climate

I agree that each species differs in seed dormancy, however even for a single species it is not a simple matter to reliably break the dormancy. Seed Dormancy In short, what works for germinating seeds from one fruit, i.e. one type of fruit, may not work for seeds from another fruit of the same type. You should expect to see an unpredictable variability in the results for germination for all your peppers, all your lemons, etcetera, regardless of your keeping conditions equal to the best of your ability. The best advice I can offer from my experience is that the more seeds you plant, the more seeds that you are likely to germinate.

So the thread I linked to is full of my photos so I won't put those here in repeat. The only thing we've had trouble with is Brussels sprouts and I have no idea why. The plants grew fine & tall but no sprouts ever developed. Too short a season perhaps? As they take a fair amount of space we gave up after 2 years & planted things we did well with. While I have used a green house to get seedlings going early, I haven't seen any great advantage in it over just sticking the seeds in the ground. (Except for the peas which will stand cold weather but not sprout in it.) I don't know so much about easy, but I do keep it fairly simple. Put seeds in ground, water, weed, & wait.