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by pvaldes 2y ago
> Why does "privately funded" make a difference? Because is not subject to political time of four years intervals. Politicians lie often about where the funds will arrive, or change their minds after a while. I you can afford i
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Correct. I should have expressed myself better. They have phones but don't use it to post on internet. 80% of the population don't have internet, and of those that have it, only 5,5% use social media. This is the people that could
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by pvaldes 2y ago
etiolated
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The economical value just as domestic animal for frozen areas is invaluable. But, the males would be most probably very complicated to manage. Also would help to fix those ecosystems in some way.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Other way to see it is that we would be raising the number of protected elephants on captivity by +1.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
I guess that in part because only a small minority of the Ethiopia citizens own phones.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Ethiopian famine was linked with previous massive deforestation projects. No trees = no water and no water = no food. War was a logical consequence of that. After several decades they finally grasp the idea, and are trying to bring the tree
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by pvaldes 2y ago
That is the easiest part https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dart+frog+gallery&t=newext&atb=v42...
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Both were pretending to be acting civilized. He send an amicable offer to explain and save time but that could support him in the divorce process later. She was on full oyster defense mode. All her answers can be resumed to "See? polic
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by pvaldes 2y ago
People should defend more their right to formulate hypotheses
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by pvaldes 2y ago
I wouldn't call it a loop. More like "orbiting towards the volcano" spiral. Each wildfire makes the next more probable and we only need a faux step into the cone to enter a threshold of "non return without putting seriou
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by pvaldes 2y ago
And many of those wildfires are criminal activity, so maybe the laws should be updated to include the carbon released on big provoked wildfires as an aggravant punishable. Boycotting the future of the humanity for money shouldn't be sc
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Is ant's fault, they keep making all those little bumps around. The real problem is that we are spending a bazillion of hours on dubious philosophical amusements, while the planet is being slowly cooked with us on board.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
If you can travel really, really fast, the earth is not a plane, is a point. A pale blue dot.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Because the drug could work really well into doing what is supposed to do, but still generate totally unsuspected and catastrophic collateral effects in other areas. Effects that could be hidden until some time pass and everybody is using t
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by pvaldes 2y ago
And a disincentive to do science for the majority of the researchers that didn't born rich. And less money available for doing science.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
We had to pass statistic courses in biology also.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Probably inspired from a vignette on the french comics Valerian, depicting a sort of galactic samurai robot, and improved later.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> $10 for a sapling is extremely cheap Will depend a lot on species, age and season of the year. Conifers are more expensive because can't be sold at fall as naked-root trees.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The zoom at the end of the video is the interesting part. The body proportions discard an occicat. There are several species that could fit. Leopardus pardalis ocelote is the most probable, but we need to remind that Leopardus wiedii, the m
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by pvaldes 2y ago
That is still a bargain for the services that the tree provides. The best "premium shadow package" available on the market. Comprises: filtered light, relaxing breeze sounds, noise blocker, chirping birds and flowers, dumb squirre
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Everything is identifiable if you hire an expert. Or if not, bingo! you have a new species. In any case the main idea is not destroy the samples throwing it into a blender
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by pvaldes 2y ago
click on a tarantula "You clicked on a real insect!" Hum, I'm sure that I didn't.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Some snails join to aestivate. They climb grasses to take advantage of the cooling effect of the breeze, search protection on numbers and jail itselves on a protective membrane to sleep during the hotter days.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The dna found belongs to a mushroom called "common garden snail" plus "unknown". The database says that common garden snail is a delicacy so the stuff is fine to eat. Good appetit!.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The idea that you need to buy a fire weapon to self defense against hypothetical encounter with a bad policeman is plain stupid. Do you know what really could help for self-defense against police? A good lawyer. A pistol will just grant tha
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Is not really difficult to find this amount of biodiversity on most wild temperate gardens. With some effort you can easily have a collection of two thousand species of plants on a middle size garden if you want, plus animals attracted by t
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> I'm sure you could match human performance Not. You still would need an human to sample this moths, kill them appropriately, and manipulate it carefully to move it in the correct position under your binocular in the correct light
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Walking out with a phone? Everybody knows where you had been for the entire year with a precision of minutes. Walking out with a covered assault riffle? nobody can know the position of a shooter; in what roof they climb, how much closer to
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Is temporary. On their native areas they allow trees to grow, then the trees eventually grow over the bramble, take the place and blackberries leave. lots of animals big and small find refuge on those places. Is more a cure than a choke [on

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