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TIL that Switzerland has a real good law: What once is forest, has to stay forest!
The swiss don't do it for nature alone. The fact is, they master elementary arithmetic!BillTre said:In Oregon, its more like:
what was once forest, if now it is made not forest,
replant it to make it forest again (for a while).
Not so good for the larger/older trees.
Trees prevent Congestive Heart Failure ?fresh_42 said:They save more than 4 billion CHF per year: less avalanches, mud slides, floods, etc.
The problem with that is in some places trees grow really fast, and places that weren't forest, become forest and can't be cut back.. I know this from the Ticin, where there are a lot of little cottages on acreages that got abandonedfresh_42 said:TIL that Switzerland has a real good law: What once is forest, has to stay forest!
Klystron said:TIL to experience several levels and flavors of sadness; some quite sweet.
Klystron said:TIL to experience several levels and flavors of sadness; some quite sweet.
Correction: Bitter sweet.Drakkith said:I don't like sadness.![]()
Dark chocolate is healthier than the milky types, e.g. it is has a mild anti depression effect. Even when it comes to sweets like chocolate, what tastes better is worse. I would be first at the vegetable shelves if they only tasted like steaksKlystron said:Correction: Bitter sweet.Dark chocolate bitter. Yet sweet, like birdsong.
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Switzerland has a high population density, especially if we subtract the places so high that they don't support either population or forest. It's not like there would be large areas no one cares about.Rx7man said:The problem with that is in some places trees grow really fast, and places that weren't forest, become forest and can't be cut back.. I know this from the Ticin, where there are a lot of little cottages on acreages that got abandoned
Good for you. What did you LEARN today?Appaget said:Today I taught differentials and integrals
The best way to learn something is to teach it. But I learned that a long time ago. While teaching.phinds said:Good for you. What did you LEARN today?
Yep. It is a mean trick. One has to convince oneself first!jbriggs444 said:The best way to learn something is to teach it. But I learned that a long time ago. While teaching.
If you can't explain it to someone else then you don't understand it. Feynman?jbriggs444 said:The best way to learn something is to teach it. But I learned that a long time ago. While teaching.
fresh_42 said:TIL that Switzerland has a real good law: What once is forest, has to stay forest!
I've also seen the logic 'burn forests to expand cities!' ... Too bad, I tell you that.BillTre said:In Oregon, its more like:
what was once forest, if now it is made not forest,
replant it to make it forest again (for a while).
Because he can earn more profit that way? It's easier than testing for the acid?Klystron said:I am baffled why the HOA pool maintenance contractor uses so much CYA?
Yes, the increasing PF levels are in increasing both mass and size.mfb said:It is based on trophy points, the increasing levels are in increasing mass and size (until it goes into the speculative region).
I've just found a relation between trophy levels: (numbers are trophy points)pinball1970 said:I noticed that I am a pf molecule the other day and I thought it was very sweet
I think that would make it easier to analyze. (To avoid little confusion due to multiple lines.)mfb said:Mountain and galaxy are there twice.
And that's why: 0≤Quark<10<Electronmfb said:but the wave function of quarks is typically confined to a smaller space than electrons.
Klystron said:I am trying to educate local home owners on the benefits of salt water pools with a simple ionizer to dissociate the sodium and chlorine from table salt disolved in the water. The chlorine and salt are almost unnoticeable while the sodium "softens" the water and feels silky smooth.
I read an article some time back that said all the bananas we eat today are an inferior species that was all that could be recovered and re-populated from a massive banana blight in the (I think it was) early part of the 1900's and that if another such blight occurs it will likely again totally wipe out the current banana species.epenguin said:Today I learned that nearly all the bananas in the world are practically a clone, that reproduces asexually, so cannot easily adapt nor do breeders have a great resources to combat a new menace of a fungal infection which after having devastated in Asia and Africa is turning up also in Columbia.
I didn't wish to know that.
As a child in the 1960's I remember eating bananas or plantains from a private garden planted circa 1868 in Santa Barbara CA. Do not remember colors but they were shorter wider flatter than Dole store-bought, bittersweet with small soft seeds. The plants were tall enough to shade upper floors; like bamboo with yummy fruit.epenguin said:Today I learned that nearly all the bananas in the world are practically a clone, that reproduces asexually, so cannot easily adapt nor do breeders have a great resources to combat a new menace of a fungal infection which after having devastated in Asia and Africa is turning up also in Columbia.
I didn't wish to know that.
I hope these wild types are all in botany labs around the world. We never know when we may need to reintroduce them.Klystron said:As a child in the 1960's I remember eating bananas or plantains from a private garden planted circa 1868 in Santa Barbara CA. Do not remember colors but they were shorter wider flatter than Dole store-bought, bitter and had small soft seeds. The plants were tall enough to shade upper floors; like bamboo with yummy fruit.
They were gone a few years later when I lived at the college. "Attracted rats." said Brother Caretaker.
diogenesNY said:Not only does this solve a paywall problem, but I now have an all new time-sync.