14 Jun 2015, 2:13 am
I can hold onto the trajectory of the thread; these fine folks deserve purple fractal *romanesco* broccoli...
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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
16 Jun 2015, 5:48 pm
I've seen the northern lights and I'm in the UK
That being said it was only because of a solar flare and it's not a regular thing. I live too far south to see it properly. It was very weak green in the sky and didn't last very long but still. The north of Scotland would have it better, as would anywhere more than about 55 degrees north.I know they can be seen from lots of places, even Montana, Canada and Alaska here on my side of the Big Pond.
I mention Norway because I have kin there, my lineage is 1/4 from there and I have a couple acquaintances going there this summer. I must admit to some jealousy.
16 Jun 2015, 8:00 pm
17 Jun 2015, 1:40 am
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18 Jun 2015, 1:00 am
18 Jun 2015, 2:15 pm
I think for me it's more about the content. I just really like to stare at cassettes/VHS and batteries.
Dude the batteries are awesome. Thanks!
20 Jun 2015, 10:50 am
Well it does it for me! Just visually delicious to this Aspie... 
20 Jun 2015, 11:21 am
20 Jun 2015, 6:57 pm
I really love to smell my cat's furs.
I smell in it how the weather is outside, the sun in it or the rain, if someone else has touched them, if they were laying in grass or at stone and so much.
All these many hairs store a lot of information.
And smelling their furs is so soothing.
22 Jun 2015, 7:01 pm
24 Jun 2015, 12:25 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/a_semenov/
It makes it seem so much more believable that life originated in the ocean--there are so many more strange creatures there than on land.
went through hundreds....excellent pics!! !! !!
thanks!! !!
28 Jun 2015, 11:33 pm
29 Jun 2015, 2:59 pm
Shark skin macro....evolution is the greatest engineer EVER 
01 Jul 2015, 12:42 am
mycelium und mycorrhiza
the (mostly)invisible network being, with the temperatures up I smell it, 'goodmorning friend' as I'm sure its a bigger entity than me and walking in the woods it's everywhere,
https://mushroomwave.wikispaces.com/Myc ... Picture%21
the mycelium, which is an underground network of rootlike fibers that can stretch for miles. [] calls mycelia the “grand disassemblers of nature” because they break down complex substances into simpler components. For example, some fungi can take apart
the hydrogen-carbon bonds that hold petroleum products together. Others have shown the potential to clean up nerve-gas agents, dioxins, and plastics. They may even be skilled enough to undo the ecological damage pollution has wrought.
Since reading Mycelium Running, I’ve begun to consider the possibility that mycelia know something we don’t. [Stamets] believes they have not just the ability to protect the environment but the intelligence to do so on purpose. His theory stems in part from the fact that mycelia transmit information across their huge networks using the same neurotransmitters that our brains do: the chemicals that allow us to think
http://peakenergy.blogspot.fr/2008/07/n ... igent.html
Orchid mycorrhizae are symbiotic relationships between the roots of plants of the family Orchidaceae and a variety of fungi. All orchids are myco-heterotrophic at some point in their life cycle. Orchid mycorrhizae are critically important during orchid germination, as orchid seed has virtually no energy reserve and obtains its carbon from the fungal symbiont. Many adult orchids retain their fungal symbionts, although the benefits to the adult photosynthetic orchid and the fungus remain largely unexplored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza
01 Jul 2015, 11:01 am
https://mushroomwave.wikispaces.com/Myc ... Picture%21
the mycelium, which is an underground network of rootlike fibers that can stretch for miles. [] calls mycelia the “grand disassemblers of nature” because they break down complex substances into simpler components. For example, some fungi can take apart
the hydrogen-carbon bonds that hold petroleum products together. Others have shown the potential to clean up nerve-gas agents, dioxins, and plastics. They may even be skilled enough to undo the ecological damage pollution has wrought.
Since reading Mycelium Running, I’ve begun to consider the possibility that mycelia know something we don’t. [Stamets] believes they have not just the ability to protect the environment but the intelligence to do so on purpose. His theory stems in part from the fact that mycelia transmit information across their huge networks using the same neurotransmitters that our brains do: the chemicals that allow us to think
http://peakenergy.blogspot.fr/2008/07/n ... igent.html
Orchid mycorrhizae are symbiotic relationships between the roots of plants of the family Orchidaceae and a variety of fungi. All orchids are myco-heterotrophic at some point in their life cycle. Orchid mycorrhizae are critically important during orchid germination, as orchid seed has virtually no energy reserve and obtains its carbon from the fungal symbiont. Many adult orchids retain their fungal symbionts, although the benefits to the adult photosynthetic orchid and the fungus remain largely unexplored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza
Incredible.
As a kid I grew lots of wildflowers, some of which are symbiotic with certain types of fungi.
For example, I grew some Pink Lady Slipper Orchids. I was told that they will only grow in the shade of Pine or Oak trees, which is only partially true. They actually require the presences of a fungus that prefers to feed in the acidic environment produced by decaying Pine and Oak leaves.
There is an intelligence there in the humus and soil. It has a component of energy flow through the network that is electrical in nature. This life grows in directions and patterns that are dependent on the flow of electricity through the environment. If the electrical charge isn't correct, then the plants are unable to absorb nutrients from the environment across the cell walls.
Roots and mycelia follow paths determined by a logical decision making process of binary bifurcation, often forming what looks like a binary tree, or sometimes geometric patterns.
01 Jul 2015, 11:31 am
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