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I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. But the answer to the first question has been known in the forestry community to be yes for quite some time. For instan
by qazxcvbnmlp 3y ago
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. But the answer to the first question has been known in the forestry community to be yes for quite some time.
For instance - there are certain species that require the heat of a fire for their seeds to explode and grow new plants.
- Almondsetat 3y agoBelieve it or not: the forestry community is not that big Edit: and judging from the gratuitous downvotes, pretty petty as well
- abakker 3y agoI think the reason for downvotes here is that you don’t need to be in the forestry community to know this. It’s been in science textbooks since I was in 4th grade, kids did presentations and posters on it, it’s in documentaries, it’s on informational plaques in multiple national parks. The fact that some tree species are evolved to survive fires or require fires for germination is not controversial.
- yodon 3y agoIt's not that the forestry community is petty, it's more likely that the HN community doesn't like comments that don't add substantively to the conversation, and particularly doesn't like them as an add-on to a thoughtful and polite answer to a question.
- Almondsetat 3y agoDoubting my integrity by suggesting I'm being sarcastic just because I don't know something that clearly isn't common knowledge is thoughtful and polite?
- gausswho 3y agoThat describes me. Don't take downvotes as a remark on your position. I pass them out to anything that doesn't raise the level of discussion. I also hand them out to every top ancestor comment that uses the word 'downvote', for the same reason.
- roughly 3y agoIn California over the last few years, salience has led forestry and fire's place in it to become a bit less of a niche interest, at least certainly among the geekier/hn-leaning community.