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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Unlike Dr. Adequate and Coragyps, I am largely ignorant of the issues and problems of biological classification, and so I can give an answer with almost complete confidence.
Birds are not reptiles. Birds are dinosaurs, which are descended from reptiles. Mammals are not reptiles. Mammals share a common ancestor with reptiles. Reptiles are not amphibians. Reptiles share a common ancestor with amphibians. If my uninformed answer is sufficiently controversial then someone should propose a new thread. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
If you don't see an obvious thread where it might belong after poking around a minute or two, just put it in a new thread.
--Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Your question might not have short answers.
I know only superficial details about Obamacare, but I wonder if the provision requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions might help. Or are the remaining procedures considered elective. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
If the American chestnut was supposedly wiped out by chestnut blight, why are the woods around my house full of young chestnut trees?
I actually already discovered the answer, but I found it surprising. When I began clearing out underbrush this summer I began wondering what were all these young trees that were so familiar, but I never knew what they were. Finding out that they were chestnut trees was unexpected, because I always had it in my mind that I would never see elm or chestnut trees in the woods here in the northeast because of Dutch elm disease and chestnut blight. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Theodoric writes: I assume the blight will get them in a few years. Is there a mature chestnut around? The oldest may be 10 years old. There are many saplings and just as many seedlings and just past seedling-stage. Next to white pine they might be the most common tree in the forest. --Percy Edited by Percy, : Typo (but how do you hit the "p" when you're aiming for the "m"?).
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
I don't think there will be any more posts, so I'll give what I think is the answer now.
Omnivorous had it right, and Theodoric, too, at a less detailed level. Many chestnut trees live 10 to 20 years, plenty of time to drop chestnuts to form new seedlings. In this time they grow beneath the forest canopy to a skinny height of at most 20 feet or so. But chestnut blight eventually gets them all. They go quickly when they go. But as Omnivorous hinted, chestnut blight does not kill the root system and new chestnut trees sprout up from it. Perhaps because of the mature root system they grow very quickly. The dead parent chestnut rots into a bare flagpole at the center of its rapidly growing saplings. Serious rot takes a long time for a hardwood, so I'm guessing some of the chestnut root systems in my woods are older than 40 years. Eventually the young saplings are also hit by the blight, but just peering around my own forest the evidence seems to indicate that new saplings just continue to sprout. I was unable to estimate how long this might continue from a single root system. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Definitely Monument. Still sitting on my bookshelf.
--Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Doesn't quantum mechanics require that even a "do nothing" button must do something?
--Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4
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Nary a beta-tester when you need one.
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4
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I'm hearing it and I still can't believe it's the Lovin' Spoonful. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4
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Just to help reset my mind back to what I think of as the Lovin' Spoonful sound, here's Daydream:
--Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
AZPaul3 writes: If you remember these y'all are really really old. Remember what? --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
A couple other data points. My desktop computer is 11 seconds slow, my flip-phone is 14 seconds slow.
--Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22506 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
I'm running Windows 7 with auto-synchronizing. The Linux server for the website is 3 seconds slow, it auto-synchronizes, too. I don't know the frequency of either one.
--Percy
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