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by pvaldes 2y ago
IMAO, the stone gardens could have at least three reasonable uses. It seems that they are distributed in coastal areas. It seems also that many moai were built or moved to those areas. Therefore there must be a place, somewhere in the islan
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by pvaldes 2y ago
As somebody that was required to pay an extra of 700€ before to be allowed to read my thesis, in concept of "insurance" (that, surprise, surprise, the university never provided but still billed) I can tell you that this is not ver
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Forcing the slabos (I created that word just because we needed one) for doing science for free in advance, and creating incentives to blackmail them to return the money later is the wet dream of any politician. In the end there could be the
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by pvaldes 2y ago
That problem has been solved long time ago. When a box plot is not enough, just use violin plots On gnu-R: install.packages('ggplot2') ?ggplot2::geom_violin
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Keeping fishermen nets out of the zero tolerance area (ZTA) was critical for the stop of the decline. Observations since 2018 suggest that between 10 and 13 vaquitas still survive in the ZTA in 2023. Acoustic data also indicate multiple gro
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2023 Census give some hope for survival of Californian porpoise [pdf](revistaquercus.es)
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Nope, not the legume. Sophora are the "new order" that toke the scorched place. The survivors that nobody wanted because they are legumes. The real deal were in the Paschalococos palms. As I suspected those were included in the tr
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The presence of stone gardens can be explained simply because everybody in that place was cutting rocks to build giant sculptures, and this should be done somewhere or dumped somewhere. The really strange part would be not finding rubble an
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> I don't know enough to know whether cutting all your trees down and not being able to grow them back counts as an ecological collapse, or whether that was the only way they could sustain even three thousand people. Knowing the gen
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by pvaldes 2y ago
I can think on several alternative explanations to the stone gardens that are simpler, logical and don't involve fertilizing the soil. Easter Island is the closer situation that we have to a Mars colony. Ecocide don't needs people
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by pvaldes 2y ago
"I also ended up needing to find a Perl script that was buried deep in some university website. I still don’t know anything about Perl, but I got it to run" Find dusty Perl script forgotten for years. Still works Not the first t
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The level of lead in that wine will be out of the charts
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by pvaldes 2y ago
And here is the obligatory Children of time mention. Beer shot
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by pvaldes 2y ago
AL generated text is not the problem. Researchers can use it to cheat, but also to express their own ideas in a better English. Scientific language is 'dry' and limited, so the same phrase structure can be (and will be) used in ma
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> Source? Supreme Court. Criminal Chamber. Judgment No. 459/2019 (14 october 2019) Josep Rull was found guilty of a crime of sedition If I remember correctly, 3,4 millions of euro of public money previously allocated to several cus
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by pvaldes 2y ago
To assure that the meat was never wrapped in plastic probably. A fact important to avoid artifacts on the methodology.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> What I find puzzling is that the behavior is usually obvious to all, Yet, it'll take years before they're found out. Because the system is working according to plan. Academy takes at least 30% of each grant that this people c
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Assuming that the videos are real, elephants on zoos had being recorded painting scenes on canvasses that aren't completely abstract. They are trained to paint to please visitors, but curiously they seem to enjoy drawing trees. Is not
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> What do the wild horses actually eat? The same that they eat in Chornobyl. Everything that is green except traffic lights. This animal are the equivalent to "Eurasian zebras" and was designed to roam around in arid places. Th
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The problem is that people confuse science with science fiction. Is the same problem each time somebody says the name "spider" here. Oh "Children of time" tell us all about how smart are spiders"... hem. Not. There
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> what kinda alien DNA strands or spores are carried by the ISM? None that we are aware (and would be fried by the earth atmosphere probably). > Would be possible to track biodiversity increases caused by the transit An entirely new s
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by pvaldes 2y ago
seems a decent explanation
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by pvaldes 2y ago
By the description provided, I assume that "medical event" here is a synonym of ictus
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> studying cancer as a “dissociative identity disorder” of cell groups, > finding that ant colonies succumb to “visual illusions” > had created biobots from frog skin cells > and then created human biobots from lung tissue that
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Lots of red flags here. To start, in the 99% of the times this question can be answered with: no. I bet that the man being promoted here as the best thing since the invention of Banjo, didn't discovered the effect of chemical gradients
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by pvaldes 2y ago
If we count evolution as amount of genes evolved in the genotype, onions are five times more evolved than us. But lot of this consists into redundant copies of the same information and another big chunk is included garbage borrowed from att
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Paris has been invaded by non native Parisiens, scums and space scoundrels. And this is what you achieve, you fools. You have been warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3sSGZlWLP4
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> this is why trust in scientists are at an all-time low People needs to stop making excuses to avoid science, use their brain cells and grow some critic sense. When you feel afraid of science, stop and think that the other option is wor
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> Treating someone at an early stage is never the goal This claim is just an opinion. I bet that if we check the real statistics there are lots of cases that show exactly the opposite behavior. > making money and winning awards is the
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> Oh the collapse of frontiers, that Fearful catastrophic event of our time Our current history will be defined in future history books by multiple frontier collapses and border conflicts for sure. Is happening right now.

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