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  @1080 - not even gonna look at the history, I'd stake several beers that 666* is not used because of fundamentalist craziness about the number of the beast being social security numbers (and they shall have numbers on yon foreheads...
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  @797 Heteromeles - got to the library today. Fun fact, while Guppy asserts that I. Batatas don’t float, his table of results “from many years lengthy experiments” using “very poor equipment” don’t actually have a result for I. Batatas (in...
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  "the net worth of the top individuals whose funds they are handling are rather greater than the GDP of the entire haven" So for all practical purposes, some people are rich enough that they've achieved personal national sovereignty by turning...
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  It's reassuring that you can still sacrifice a few celebrities (who lets face it are really just a cleaner variety of whitroth's mud) and prevent any damage or even attention being paid to proper rich people....
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  Which, thinking about it, means we end up with everything going to heaven - putting us back at living in the heaven we've already inherited. That's tidy, #RaptureAccomplished!...
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  I dunno about a rapture for eukaryotes - I'd argue that fungi are already in heaven. It does make our position somewhat more interesting, from the perspective of being ornamentation and food in the post-rapture world of an alien form...
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  troutwaxer @597 - Magic using math - Sanderson's The Rithmatist? He does spend a lot of time making up internally coherent magic systems for his worlds. Robert @613 - Thanks! So many amazing shots in there, of amazing places. That'll...
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  Heteromeles @496 - I found a reference in this article from back in the Heyerdahl days to the float tests you were wondering about - can't direct link but you'll have access if you look in the usual places. Yen,...
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  Robert @477 - that's an amazing set of photographs, thank you so much for sharing your work. Heteromeles @496 Ouch, yes, not even wrong about time. My bad. If you want another reason to think I'm stupid, my geography also...
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  Heteromeles @ 450 - Please don't apologise for nerding out, it's awesome and I appreciate it. I'm only a baby undergrad in plants because it's a second career and a late start for me, so I really do appreciate the...
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  Heteromeles @ 431 - This paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221830321X suggests, using more comprehensive genetic analysis that is available for phylogeny building recently, that the divergence of those polynesian sweet potato varieties is at least 100kya, and maybe over 1mya. Probably don't need...
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  Surely there's no cell reception because the cops have shut down the signal over half the central city yet again, in a futile attempt to stop footage getting leaked of their curb-stomping a peace march. I mean, that's just Saturday....