StringJunky

If it's not worth saying, don't say it just to fill forum space and up your post count.

Condensation nuclei from seawater comes in the form of dimethyl sulphide, produced by phytoplankton. If we spray it in the air, I would have thought DMS would be liberated into the air at a higher rate?

If they charcoaled the trees they cut down and infused that with desirable minerals before working it in the gound, they might have a more sustainable system. They need to stop it leaching, and that's what the terra preta does. It holds onto the nutrient anions and cations until the plants need it.

It's just a request for more evidence. It's what we do. Is it not?

Yes, that's it. It is literally a self-contained system in an otherwise hostile environment. The solution for fixing a desert is right there, but I've no idea what the critical mass looks like, when it requires no more intervention. That default horizontal interlocking of roots is what creates a fantastic framework for things to latch onto, decompose into and compress in a compact manner to create a sponge to hold water and nutrients. The ultimate 'design' aim I think is to make it waterproof at the subsoil/humus layer interface.

Another fact about the Amazon is the humus layer is only 2-5cm deep! That's sand and clay underneath and very few minerals... everything is within the growing zone. Heat and moisture rapidly degrades dead matter to keep the system going.

That's a head turner. Makes a lot of sense. I should have realized actually that indigenous people understand the rythms of their locality. The Amazonians made charcoal infused soil called Terra Preta; I wonder if that technique could be advantageous to the desert dwellers that are trying to make their land more productive. The Amazon areas that have it, it constitutes 4-9% of the surface soil.

Women are just weak, spindly things...

Macrophages also surround and absorb objects in a process called 'phagocytosis'.

That was a general statement about human nature, inspired by your posts. I'm not immune, I might add, although I try to keep self-aware about it. Not a chance of changing my music tastes now, for example.

You are farting into the wind. Male and female as the only descriptors is loaded onto the dustbin of history. It's amusing, human development. We start out with black and white views as youngsters, and eventually we develop an understanding of nuances in things... grey things. Then we hit our seventh decade, or thereabouts, and the world is black and white again! I think people just give up the desire to learn and end up entrenched with an attitude twenty years out of date.

You could say that this is what you get societally when people are freer to express themselves... it often creates more categories. In my eyes, feminists are emerging as the new Luddites, in the face of things like transgenderism and recognition of variations in self-identity.

C'est la vie. So, women, actually want to be recognised as a distinct and separate ("separate but equal") class of person? Where did the cries for equality go? Social phenomena and behaviour is in constant flux, it's nobody's fault that these distinct causes happen at the same time.

How about 'treated'?

I've just made my case. Using terms like "successfully drugged" sounds rather derogatory.

"Successfully drugged" ? I think it's clear where the author of this post stands. Don't be disingenuous and fly your "anti-LGBTQIA+" flag.

Online, every transaction I do brings up the bank page and I'm required to enter the number they send as well the cvv number. Dual authentication every time.

Trump vowed to "take historic action to defeat the toxic poison of gender ideology to restore the timeless truth that God created two genders, male and female." - Trump at a rally. I hope to see all this rhetoric thrown back at him if he wins the nomination. and then has to present it to the swing states.

You've also got a paper and video trail to follow. I can also arbitrarily block my card at my convenience, which I do when I misplace it. I got robbed last week or two, including my card; no losses apart from losing the card, my wallet, a few quid and covid card... which I found on a path near my abode a day or so later. I do notice a sizable number of people using some sort of contactless phone app nowadays more and more.

Thanks Seth.

No probs.

Cheers

I thought you might have.

The pressure is the first effect, and that causes ignition, then it gets swamped. Would the combined pressure of the ignited air/components, and incoming seawater be additive on the occupants ie their bodies experienced a pressure greater than just from the depth pressure itself, albeit briefly?