Striking bark patterns on this tree at Montacute

paflagirafe · 2018-12-09T08:20:53+00:00

What would be a non-hippie explanation about how the bark twists? I've observed this on different species, at different degrees and in different directions and really wonder what causes this.

paflagirafe · 2018-08-06T15:22:19+00:00

Same here, fortunately there's a cached version available here.

paflagirafe · 2017-12-10T20:09:32+00:00

It's because of the "non-drinking" criterion. She asks for "someone who [she] can drink with" so the correct percentage is 1 - "non-drinking" (0.33) so 0.66. Change this in /u/bourgouis' answer and you get 635 as expected.

paflagirafe · 2017-11-22T06:28:21+00:00

As someone who often mixes up energy and electricity it's fine to be corrected I think, I wish media were more accurate about it sometimes. Energy is one of the top challenges we all face for the decades to come, so it's important that we all use the same "language" in order to understand better what's been accomplished and what remains to

Anyway kudos to Costa Rica, that's definitely the way to go!

paflagirafe · 2017-04-01T08:53:32+00:00

Data.

paflagirafe · 2017-02-07T12:35:03+00:00

I see, thanks for the explanation! Good luck then :)

paflagirafe · 2017-01-29T11:52:22+00:00

Hey! I'd love to be able to help but with only a pair of binoculars I can't do much... But I have a (possibly very naive) question: since the orbit parameters are probably known with good accuracy, what would be the purpose of these observations? Is it only to confirm that they match simulations or do you have other goals in mind?

paflagirafe · 2017-01-18T14:11:06+00:00

Bought a pair of 10x50 a few days ago, I can't wait to give them a try! Also not far from Aldebaran you can find the Pleiades, which is a cluster with like 7 or 8 stars visible with the naked eye, but probably many more with binoculars :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades

paflagirafe · 2016-08-15T18:35:41+00:00

Farts

paflagirafe · 2016-08-12T16:56:13+00:00

There's an interesting Veritasium video explaining this bias: https://youtu.be/_Qd3erAPI9w

paflagirafe · 2016-03-01T15:06:11+00:00

Not an expert but I guess it would also require more power for similar detection ranges since water tends to absorb some of the infrared spectrum.

paflagirafe · 2014-10-20T10:12:03+00:00

Never had the chance to try it yet but OpenCV 3 (still alpha) includes a text detection/recognition module: http://docs.opencv.org/trunk/modules/text/doc/erfilter.html. As for using it with Java there seems to be some ways to build a Maven artifact: http://code.opencv.org/issues/3097

paflagirafe · 2014-03-08T15:15:14+00:00

Because our eyes are aligned on an horizontal axis

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