A list of puns related to "Evolutionary Radiation"
During a conversation on this topic I once posited that a possible reason for the range of wave lengths in the visible spectrum is that water is most transparent in the same range. I hypothesized that it follows that this range of wavelengths would make the most sense for a water dwelling organism's eyes. So my question is, do we see in this range because of our evolution from water dwelling vertebrates or is there some other reason?
I hope my question makes sense, so I try to explain a little better. Life evolved partly due to mutations caused by the sun, which in-turn gave an organism either a bad attribute (so it died) or a good one which was able to pass on it's genes through natural selection.
Edit: Not saying skin cancer is good, just saying that there is a higher degree of radiation coming from the sun (which is causing more skin cancer), the same radiation that causes genetic mutations that can be good (and bad).
Now, with the increase in radiation on humans, wouldn't that cause an increase in mutations? Granted, it would be a mixed bag of good and bad, but essentially wouldn't it also increase good genetic mutations and help to "evolve" us as a species through natural selection faster than it has been through our specious history? The bad would not reproduce and the good would.
Got this from reading Starship Troopers, sorry if it's a stupid question. They make the same point in this book, except in the reverse, so I was just curious as it was a good point the book made (excellent book by the way, started reading it in the morning, I'll finish it by tonight.)
Edit: The more I think about it, and yes I have had three people in my family that had cancer, one died from it, there would be more deaths involved if more radiation were on us. This does bring up a lot of ethic issues, I guess the "greater good" of humanity by "evolving" faster but at a higher death rate for older people (who it generally affects), kind of takes the humanity of out it. I'm just rambling, sorry. Stupid books, stop making me think! Like I said, it's probably a stupid question and point, but I'm not a biology major or a philosophy major, so screw you, lol.
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> Diversification rates analyses: To infer the net diversification rate of the Erica Cape clade and compare it to those of other Cape and rapidly radiating clades, we used the method of Magallón & Sanderson.
> MuSSE uses maximum likelihood to estimate the values of different parameters under a constant birth death model: speciation and extinction rates under each of the discrete states of the character, and rates of transition from one state to another.
> We compared the fit of the models to the data using the anova function in diversitree and using the AIC to compare the fit of the models.
> The parameters for the best fitting model were then calculated using a Bayesian MCMC approach run for 10,000 steps using an exponential probability distribution as prior for the underlying rates in the model.
> We assessed convergence by comparing the probability values of the sampling after excluding a burnin of 25 %. To further determine whether there is diversification rate heterogeneity in the Erica dataset, we used BAMM 2.5 and Bammtools 2.1 [36, 37]. The method compares the fit of different models assuming different numbers of shifts based on a reversible jump MCMC to explore parameter space.
> We then computed the set of credible shifts and reconstructed the mean of the marginal posterior density of speciation, extinction and net diversification rates across the tree.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡Never forget that before your op is someone else's op, that while you're doing your run someone else is making their run, and after your run there is another beginning or doing their run. - Street Solo advice, Fighting Man's Magazine, Resource War Era, TerraSol.
Speaks blew the android's head off with his SMG, grabbing the body and yanking it out even as he leveled the SMG at the creation engine's computer system and pulled the trigger. The SMG had a whistling noise and Speaks knew the barrel was almost shot out.
The light SMG, firing 2.2mm rounds, was supposed to only see a few bursts worth the work, maybe one or two mags.
Speaks had burned through almost a dozen mags and the memory-plas was badly worn.
The android crashed to the ground and Speaks patted him down. He was carrying a heavy battle rifle, high caliber, loaded with heavy mass reactive gyrojet rounds, with an underslung 20mm variable munition grenade launcher. Speaks stripped grenades off the android's harness, checking them over and tucking them into his own gear.
A quick glance outside the conex showed that nobody was close and he scurried across and down a narrow gap between conex stacks. Lights stabbed down, searching through the conex containers and the equipment of the shipping yard. Speaks looked up and saw hovercraft in the air, some marked with LawSec and others marked with news stations.
"No, you idiots," Speaks swore, running for the fence.
That instinct raised up again and Speaks threw himself to the side, rolling, and a loud KARAK! sounded out right before a crater was blown out of the ferrocrete right where he would have been.
Speaks dropped a grenade as he rolled, coming up on his three feet and running for the conexes. The sniper was on the upper level highway access.
The sniper round blew through his shield and came so close that the air displacement ripped the end of his left antenna off. Speaks staggered, slapping his camo and putting on a burst of speed.
In the sky two of the LawSec HRT and one of the news hovercraft exploded. The unarmored news hovercraft fell to the ground, a burning hulk erupting in flames, the two HRT craft falling from the sky and slamming into the ground, the high-G impact killing the crews.
Speaks put on a burst
... keep reading on reddit ➡Death worlds. The most overused term in the galaxy. I hate it.
We all use it. All nine of the sentient, intelligent life forms in the galaxy ALL thought their world was a ‘death world’.
And technically speaking yes they are all correct. Every planet wherein sentient life has arisen has been ideal for them and certain death for all alien life forms.
So technically ALL life bearing planets are ‘death worlds’. Take my planet for example. The gravity is so painfully high compared to the other worlds, any alien life form upon the surface is almost incapable of movement (without mechanical help).
Or then there is Strodam- it’s atmosphere is life bearing and awesome for a myriad of homegrown species and ecosystems; everything from off-world takes one look and dies from all the arsenic.
Yeltrab has vast, abundant oceans, which teem with life and some of the most complex environmental ecosystems known. The self same oceans also tend to dissolve anything that hasn’t had a few billion years evolutionary protection. Even our machines dissolve in the sulphuric goop of Yeltrab’s waters.
Earth has so much oxygen in it, we are constantly amazed the whole planet doesn’t combust. Grea’s electromagnetic storms destroy anything that hasn’t adapted and developed a proximal sense to know when a strike will happen. Urata’s ice cold pitch black oceans contain whole cities at pressures not seen outside of the inner part of gas giants.
And speaking of gas giants? The🔸exist as a civilisation floating amidst ammonium clouds and hydrogen thermals. You leave your ship anywhere on T’g and you die very quickly.
And of course the solar radiation that life on Huleian thrives upon, is instantly fatal to any and all living creatures not from Huleian.
Each and everyone of our worlds is a paradise. To us. The residents. The species who grew up there. Each is filled with abundant life in countless myriad forms, which through billions of years of evolution have evolved to live there. And everything else? Dies.
Not nice death either. It’s usually horrific.
So yeah.
‘Death worlds’.
Silly name really.
And THEN you have to consider that these places are the literal oasis of life out in space. For each of the nine worlds? There are about 250 million places where it was too brutal for any kind of life to emerge.
Dead worlds.
Either too cold. Or too hot. Or no atmosphere. Or too much atmosphere. Nothing lives on them.
And in-between? The eternal da
... keep reading on reddit ➡Kathmin’s head was spinning as he walked back to his room. He considered the events of the day. He’d awoken that morning relatively well-respected but generally unknown in the central circles of his profession. Then, he bumped into Rhubul, gave a lecture on mythological demons, and learned those same monsters were, in fact, real. He was headed back to pack his things to join the first contact team to meet said demons and hopefully introduce them peacefully to the known galaxy. Oh, and he was supposed to do that while avoiding any “unfortunate incidents.” Zhiela was a little concerned about antagonizing a group of beings, sitting on the far Eastern edge of her empire, that folded up a Bramin strike force faster than Kathmin would fold his pants in a few moments. He chuckled.
“No pressure or anything,” Kathmin mumbled to himself as he walked. Once again, Rhubul was the impetus for a major source of upheaval in his life. Whether it was the tea in grad school, introducing Kathmin to his first mate, or the infamous Orellian incident all those years ago, everything went sideways when Rhubul was around. Kathmin mused, “That’ll teach me to reconnect with old friends.”
He reached his room and entered. Everything was as he had left it, and he moved through the mechanics of gathering his personal effects to pack. Rhubul was escorting Zhiela back to the shuttle. From there, the three of them would hop to her vessel and then make for Roade.
Kathmin pulled up his data slate and projected a map of the galaxy. The Galactic Union was on what was generally referred to as the Eastern side of the galaxy. The western border of the GU was approximately 15,000 light-years from the galactic core and the eastern edge about 25,000 light-years from the core. Much of that eastern edge bordered the Dursk Imperial Republic. Millions upon millions of star systems occupied GU space. To reach their destination, they’d have to cross most of the GU and all of the DIR to reach the far side of their empire and Roade. Kathmin had traveled extensively throughout the GU with his research but never outside the borders. He casually browsed around the map of the galactic disc. Despite the GU’s age and robust exploration programs, much was
... keep reading on reddit ➡I have encountered a creationist claiming that “no evolution occurred” during the cambrian period
What (in your opinion) would be the most striking example of evolution occurring during this time period?
The True Nature of Things?
A log onto the fire is a solar mass into an ancient black hole. The heat we feel as the log burns is a trillion antenna absorbing the hawking radiation released as the black hole swallows a thousand earths of precious matter.
The distant future, beyond the horizon of forever, the last of the stars a trillion years gone, a time of blackness and emptiness. Complexity may still exist.
In our space and time, energy flows in great tidal waves from the burning of stars.
In this distant space and time energy will come like morning dew, a trickle of radiation from ancient black holes, released as they slowly consume the finite matter of the cosmos.
In this cold dark place our evolutionary descendants huddle around these black holes and dream of the era of stars. As we once huddled by our first fires.
Too little energy exists to move quickly, our descendants dream slowly, a day may be a century, it matters little when you exist as a dream. Time is vast and energy little, matter is finite, there is only so much fuel for the fire. When it is gone all will be dark.
My friends and I had come to the forest to do mushrooms, it was a cold October night. As the sun set upon the horizon; the lake we paddled here over was lit on fire. Brilliant oranges and reds. The canoes sat idle upon the rocky bank. The tent was nestled in the trees. Our fire burned well, we had gathered a good stock of hard wood for the cold night ahead. I thought about how the energy our fire released was the same energy that lit the lake, starlight trapped in wood, released though fire into heat and light.
Under the influence of the mushrooms we felt connected to the life around us and to each other. I stood barefoot on the soil, and felt the complex networks of plant and fungus that wove a web of connection through the earth we stood on.
The lake was as still as glass. We set upon the canoes and sailed out onto it. Gliding over the water like magic.
As the earth turned away from the nearest star the sky filled with uncountable billions of distant suns. They glistened on the surface of the water and we paddled across the cosmos.
Human consciousness is a physical phenomenon, it is matter and energy, a pattern of information that we call a consciousness. Like a fire, intelligence is a phenomenon fuelled by energy. In this era of countless suns it is possible to imagine a cosmos filled with endless trillions of conscious entities.
Are two fires that
... keep reading on reddit ➡Garl'Vohn stalked down the halls, an anger gnawing at his chest. Those damn mahn'ewe; this time they'd gone too far, and left evidence. Of course, they would deny this as 'another rogue vessel', but at least this time he had the satisfaction of knowing that the mahn'ewe responsible for this were actually the ones put to death for it. A small victory, but at this moment, he'd take any victory he could get. This was certainly a situation that they hadn't ever been trained for, and one that leant itself to a major loophole. A loophole that threatened to turn the galaxy as they knew it into a nest of chaos. Such has usually been the case when a species is introduced to technology far beyond their current level of progression. The mahn'ewe would - allegedly - send out scouting ships to planets with sapient species that may be nearing FTL capabilities. They - allegedly - then preform many experiments that Garl'Vohn frankly didn't want to think about, so they would then have the cutting edge on everything from the best gadgets/tools to market specifically for them, to physiological weaknesses needed to exploit them should they prove to be a threat. Well, this time they took a bite out of something before ensuring that it couldn't bite them back, and that's what it apparantly did.
As the chief of the space station's security detail, Garl'Vohn was responsible for dealing with the mess that those gray, empathy-deprived bastards had dropped so heavily in his lap. The gah'rahtoe ship that'd hailed the station reported having come across a mahn'ewe ship drifting lifelessly in the void. When hailed, no response was ever given - though a single life form was detected in the scans - so the ship's security team of 8 boarded the derelict, and found a massacre. mahn'ewe blood was sprayed all over - obviously a few days old, having dried up long ago - with impact marks all over the ship as if some hulking beast went on a rampage, too bulky to easily fit through the narrow halls made for the diminutive creatures, who stood at a paltry 3 feet tall. The halls topped out at 4 feet, meaning the 8 foot tall gah'rahtoe were going through on all fours; luckily they were built for either bi- or quadripedal locomation. The security team cleared the ship, noting the destruction, and the readings that the jump core was dangerously close to a meltdown. They were just getting ready to salvage what could be found when a general alert went out through the team: the survivor had
... keep reading on reddit ➡###What do Zen Masters teach? Do they teach Zen? Let's find out!^archive
Forty-Eight Case from the Blue Cliff Record: Turning Over the Tea Kettle at Chao Ch’ing
Today I said goodbye to my 9 year old cousin. The past few days we talked about greek mythology, evolutionary theory and about who Bodhidharma was. The whole time I didn’t open my mouth once. What is that function that you can’t hear when I talk and I hear when I don’t talk?
Case
>When Minister Wang entered Chao Ch’ing, they were making tea. At the time Elder Lang was holding the kettle for Ming Chao. Lang turned the tea kettle over. Seeing this, the Minister asked the Elder, “What’s under the tea stove?” Lang said, “The spirit who holds up stoves.” The Minister said, “If it’s the spirit who holds up stoves, why then did you turn over the tea kettle?” Lang said, “Serve as an official for a thousand days, lose it in a single morning.” The Minister shook out his sleeves and left. > >Ming Chao said, “Elder Lang, you’ve eaten Chao Ch’ing food, but still you go beyond the river to make noise gathering charred wood.” Lang said, “What about you, Teacher?” Ming Chao said, “The spirit got the advantage.” > >Xuedou said, “At the time I just would have kicked over the tea stove.
astrocomments:
-If you think in terms of gain and loss (pwnings), you are gonna miss the whole interaction. However, there is, as Yuanwu puts it "near and far, initiate and outsider." My eye is drawn to Ming Chao. Unlike Minister Wang who left loudly, and Elder Lang who went "beyond the river to make noise gathering charred wood," he is at first in the background waiting for tea, and then questions Lang in such a way that Lang’s only move is to try and turn it back around to Ming Chao. He then handles his own questioning putting the matter to an end.
My attention is drawn to this because I’ve been thinking about ewk’s precepts the last couple of days. In particular, no nest, no tracks. If you read what’s on that link, you can see some relevant quotes from the Zen record.
I get the sense from reading the comments there that people are reading it as meaning "don’t speak", or "don’t ever do anything because then you are making
... keep reading on reddit ➡This is a continuation of the Armoured Angels of Terra universe, though you don't have to have read that story to understand anything here! :D
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The Three Great Nations, that’s what we were called.
Our power was unmatched, and trillions bowed before it. Entire nations were consumed to fuel our progress, and the slaves flowed through the galaxy helping to create impossible feats of engineering.
The Slave States of Leondra were the greatest, they who held puppet states innumerable and who maintained a rigid caste system to ensure every citizen had a place in the great machine.
The Poisel Theocracy, with their fast ships and hard-hitting lasers dominated every war they entered. They tore through nation after nation, enslaving them into the faith of the one true God.
And us, the one remaining. The Empire of Treskarn, a world which has been lost to the fires of horror and war that our collective hubris let burn. We were known for being the greatest engineers in the galaxy, a title we held unchallenged year after year. Millions of slaves led by thousands of geniuses building incredible structures, each one a wonder worthy of praise from any Gods that observed our universe.
There were others, they came and went. The Orakayn, the Terrans, the Pleideas. They despised slavery, and upon learning how the galaxy was closed their borders and withdrew, becoming hermit states on the edges of our magnitude.
You’d occasionally see a ship of theirs exploring, or carrying goods for other nations as contractors, but they knew their place. Minor insects unworthy of the attention of the great beasts, or so we thought.
But one insect grew to become our destroyer. The Swarm.
It started slow, a dark segment of the galaxy long left unexplored due to stellar interference suddenly had strange biological ships coming out of it. They did little more than fly around a bit, and go back. We deemed it of no consequence and ignored it, how little we knew.
The Poisel were the first to get hit, the dark segment was within their borders and they thought they could contain it. At first they could, but soon their lasers did nothing and their speedy ships fell before living behemoths with hides thicker than skyscrapers.
Soon worlds began to be consumed in the wake of the ever moving tide, stripped barren and bare of materials by the insatiable appetite of the Swarm. The Theocracy demanded our a
... keep reading on reddit ➡Life is exceedingly uncommon in the galaxy; a planet has a roughly one in a billion chance of harboring life. However, with over 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, with at least one planet around most of them, that still works out to roughly 300 planets harboring life. Only a few of these, however, have multicellular life. Fewer still hold life intelligent enough to form civilizations.
These species are, of course, wildly varied in how they evolved. The lava dwelling Igni evolved to navigate the rapidly changing environment of their volcanic homeworld. Moving from one lava pool to another, they rarely stayed in one place for more than a few days as the energy demands of their bodies quickly drained the heat from the pool. Today, they inhabit the galaxy as nomads, trading at each stop to refit their ship to suit their needs.
The Apis evolved from eusocial insects, forming massive colonies in which each Apis is an individual, and yet still connected to the whole. They now exist as one of the most advanced civilizations in the galaxy, their skills at communicating between each other allowing for the fast spread and modification of new ideas and techniques.
The Volare hail from a massive gas giant, scavenging the solid metals they needed for tool use from the rare meteoroid that entered the planets atmosphere. Due to this scarcity of material, it took hundreds of thousands of years from their first tool use for them to advance enough to leave their planet. They now exist as scavengers on a vast timescale. They will gladly wait in orbit of a colony for hundreds of years for some misfortune to befall the world, be it plague, famine, or an ‘accidental’ impact by an asteroid. Then they swoop in, scavenge as much as they can from the wreckage, and move on to the next planet.
As each civilization is defined by its evolutionary roots, so too is Humanity. Uniquely among the galaxies intelligent species, Humans evolved as a predator. Pursuing prey takes a lot of energy, and that leaves little to spare for fueling a complex brain. However, Humanity got around this by evolving as persistence hunters. They simply walked after fleeing prey until it collapsed from exhaustion, and instead used the stores of energy that would normally be used up in an energy intensive chase to fuel a complex brain.
Remarkably, as a predator, Humans are actually one of the species least prone to violence. Predators are often quick to shy away from an unsuccessful hunt; pursuing a target
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
«I am leaving you now, into the capable hand of our chief of sience, Uhk’rurh»
The Young Gabarian ambassador just nodded his head, already a wee bit dizzy from all the information he had received already. The Ulrian ambassador made a deep bow and slid out the door and another one entered, a rather tall one with very shiny eyes and a lot of instruments attached to the body, almost everywhere. “Ambassador Niem, I am most honoured to be your guide this evening. I have read so much about your species and I must say, I cannot wait to see what our two races can achieve together”
Niem bowed, he knew that this was the proper manner in which to greet an Ulrian of importance. “Likewise, I am honoured to be here”
The Ulrian made a gesture. “My name is Uhk’rurh bt you may call me Uhk, I am the leader of the science team here on Ular prime.”
Niem smiled, he was rather fresh as an ambassador and when he heard that he was the one to be sent to Ular Prime to deal with the treaty his people were to sign he was overwhelmed and also very humble. He would gain a place in history like this, he was ambitious and first and foremost very eager to learn new things, to expand his horizon. Uhk walked in front of him towards a door, there he stopped and placed two of his six hands on screens, there was a beep and the door opened slowly. “Now, what I am to show you must remain a secret, only those worthy are to know of this but we have already seen that the gabarian people are to be our close friends and allies, and a very valuable addition to the union”
Niem felt his face flush with embarrassment, he often felt like that when hearing praise. The other races of this union were so established and accomplished and had done amazing things while his people just recently had been able to enter the FTL era. They were new, and fresh and also rather naïve in their own way, but as the leaders said, they had huge potential and since they were a peaceful and friendly species they were welcome, even if they were a bit wet around the ears still.
“I am listening”
He kept his voice low and respectful and the Ulrian opened yet another door. “I assume that you have heard of something known as the Gabatt?”
Niem nodded. “I have heard the name yes, but I do not know what it is? Only that it is very precious?”
Uhk made his races version of a smile, the wrinkly face was very expressive once one got used to it and the three eyes were shining with joy. This one enjoyed teaching, there
... keep reading on reddit ➡It started last week.
The lockdown, I mean.
Before that, things weren’t great but they weren’t awful. We weren’t the happiest place on earth, but we weren’t jumping off bridges either. We just were.
We managed, is what I’m trying to say.
Now years of impoverished alcoholism have reared their ugly head. The lockdown’s done its job. It’s kept us safe from the devil outside our walls, but sometimes it’s the devil inside that does the most harm. Sometimes it’s the thinking. The thinking, thinking, thinking.
That’s what does you in.
My town’s main industry has been on the decline for decades. These days most of us are on food stamps. We can’t afford to live here anymore, but can’t afford to move either. Catch 22.
A few years back the government opened up a compound on the hill, a research facility for military-types and the super geniuses you see on TV. A few weeks later, they announced the town would enter lockdown. Something about a radiation leak. Something about acid rain.
Since it started there’s been one dead and nine missing. How’d the dead guy go? If you're wondering, it wasn’t radiation. It was self-loathing. They found Benny West near the woods with a smoking handgun beside what was left of his head, and a suicide note so wet with blood that nobody could read the damn thing.
Famous last words? We never knew them. But then, I don’t think any of us really needed to. You could still smell the booze on Benny’s breath, could still see decades of struggle etched into every line of his face.
As for the missing? They’re a tougher puzzle. Nobody’s found them. Nobody’s had any contact with them whatsoever. Not a text. Not a call. Not even a dusty email.
It’s odd, but maybe they’d just had enough, couldn’t take this place anymore and finally decided the lockdown was the worst of it. What’s the phrase? The last straw. Yeah, that’s what the lockdown was for them.
The last straw.
Since it all started, I’ve been going stir crazy. Being cooped inside with nothing to do but drink and watch TV will do that to a man. I think that’s why I did it, you know? Took a midnight stroll. Loneliness is a strange beast and it doesn’t pick and choose it’s time of day, but if I had to place it I’d say it always gets worse at night. There’s something about the dark that suffocates. Makes you feel vulnerable. Singled out.
So I went to her cabin.
My old highschool sweetheart. Vanny Williams– the only girl I’ve ever met that could shoot a target with her eyes closed and s
... keep reading on reddit ➡The extant Eutherian family three composes of four major groups; Xenarthra (sloths, anteaters, armadillos), Afrotheria (elephants, aardvark, manatees), Euarchontoglires (primates, rodents, etc), and Laurasiatheria (bats, carnivorans, ungulates, etc) .
Generally speaking, scientists group Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria under Boreoeutheria. It is, however, unclear whether Boreoeutheria is most closely related to Xenarthra, Afrotheria, or have the latter two in their own clade. These are the three main hypotheses.
I read that some studies support a trichotomy of Xenarthra, Afrotheria, and Boreoeutheria as the tree may be too hard to resolve. It may be similarly hard to resolve the tree in neoavian birds.
SAG's Open Access Cannabis Links
last update: 15 JAN 2022 (bit of clean up)
Main open access page -many hundreds more papers
Most links are for THC cannabis but some are for hemp or CBD and found primarily using Google Scholar. At the very bottom is a recently added section which will likely be every few months.
Please report dead links! You sometimes have to look around a bit to find the actual PDF download in the page linked to.
Highlights
Characterization of Nutrient Disorders of Cannabis sativa -this is for vegetative hemp and the only broad study I know of with nute issues and any cannabis
Cannabis lighting: Decreasing blue photon fraction increases yield but efficacy is more important for cost effective production of cannabinoids "As percent blue increased from 4 to 20%, flower yield decreased by 12.3%. This means that flower yield increased by 0.77% per 1% decrease in blue photons."
Cannabis spectral and lighting
--THESIS
The Impact of LED Spectra on Cannabis sativa Production master thesis
SPECTRAL DIFFERENTIATION OF CANNABIS SATIVAL FROM MAIZE USING HYPERSPECTRAL INDICES master thesis
--ULTRAVIOLET
[Cannabis sativa L. Response to Narrow Bandwidth UV and the Combination of Blue and Red Light during the Final Stages of Flowering on Leaf Level Gas-Exchange Parameters, Secondary Metabolite Production, and Yield](ht
Edit: WARNING: Massive bullshit ahead. It will possibly read as somewhat insightful, or like there is some substance there, but there isn't. It's nothing but verba non acta. I'm leaving it here to remind myself and warn others what can happen if you spend too much time thinking and not enough time doing.
Fix the man, not the marriage. I am the problem, not my wife/dad/government/world. Discipline = freedom. Lift. STFU. Read. Work hard. Become your own judge, your own mental point of origin. Do what you want. DNGAF. (well, give maybe one fuck).
I look at all that and see truth. Not like I agree with it, as if it were something I could decide. It’s there, plain as day, right in front of me. I’m grinding away at applying it, failing all the time. but I see the truth and am working to align myself to it.
I even see a kind of truth in what might be the most core RP philosophy: selfishness.
philosophers call it rational egoism.
I think rational egoism is evolutionarily true, up to a point. I think the environment that produced us has deeply ingrained a type of selfishness as the highest ideal. But not selfishness of the individual, selfishness of the genome.
I think rational egoism is true.
but I’m not sure it’s optimal. and I think evolution agrees.
But I’m not sure, and I want to be challenged on this.
Evolution optimizes for maximum survival of a genome, not the individual. we are merely instantiations of that genome. we are finite, limited. evolution “knows” this. even if we fucked 10k women and sired 50k offspring, we will die eventually. it looks to me like our biology and neurochemistry reflects this. I think we are most aligned with our biological roots when we optimize for genomic survival and thriving, not just our individual survival and thriving.
It looks to me like RP focuses on optimizing the life of the individual, all else be damned. Build my power to do what I want, maximize my happiness, DNGAF about what everyone else needs/wants, except in the context of how meeting those needs might further my own. But it all begins and ends with me alone and I won’t ever sacrifice myself for others.
Again, I don’t think that’s “wrong” per se. Nothing is “wrong” in the world of RP.
I just don’t see it as optimal.
It looks to me like the most optimal mode of being is one that optimizes my needs & wants now, *t
... keep reading on reddit ➡Disclaimer, this is pure speculation and I’m not trying to say that this is true. I just wanted to connect some dots. It goes without saying that I don’t really care what skeptics have to say about this because I’m not trying to prove anything scientifically.
Recently I’ve had this theory that the phenomenon has long been exploiting the human understanding of reality. It accomplishes this by mimicking entities that would be understood by us through what AATIP calls “cognitive human interface.” Through this interface, they could have created religions by projecting what humans interpret as angels, demons, flying chariots, and other seemingly divine phenomena into our consciousness. This could also explain why poltergeist and cryptid encounters are sometimes associated with UFO sightings (i.e. Skinwalker ranch).
To use an obvious jumping off point, I wanted to highlight a few things in AATIP Slide 9 that are relevant to this thought pattern.
>The science exists for an enemy of the United States to manipulate both physical and cognitive environments in order to penetrate U.S. facilities, influence decision makers, and compromise national security.
>* Psychotronic weapons >* Cognitive Human Interface >* Penetration of solid surfaces >* Instantaneous sensor disassembly >* Alteration/Manipulation of biological organisms >* Anomalies in the space/time construct >* Unique cognitive human interface experiences
>DoD Advantages
>* DoD has been involved in similar experiments in the past >* DoD has relationships with renowned subject matter experts >* DoD controls several facilities where activities have been detected.
In Lue’s interview with James Iandoli from Engaging the Phenomenon, Lue is asked about what cognitive human interface meant to AATIP. Lue responds “I think you know what that means to AATIP, it’s kind of your CE5 now isn’t it?” James then floats the idea that it’s basically like AATIP is saying contact experiences and Lue gives one of his non-answer confirmations. My interpretation is the former head of AATIP is suggesting that utilizing this "CHI" is how contact between humanity and the phenomenon occurs.
Now, as far as the DoD’s relationships with “renowned subject matter experts,” two people that come to mind are Jacques Vallee and Eric Davis. They were both involved with the National Institute for Discovery Scien
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(And, for a short review of book 3: It was amazing, and the ending made me cry. Read it, because RJ Barker is sustained by our tears.)
Anyhow, theorycrafting time, lots of spoilers ahead:
The apparent cycle of migrating from one world to another- or, somewhat ambiguously, regions without storms on a single large world, or regions without storms on a non-standard psychedelic world- is an absolutely fascinating one from a worldbuilding perspective. It was also a brilliant choice on RJ's part. I went in assuming, largely due to trope expectations, that the humans were struggling to survive on a hostile, alien world, but in truth, the world was hosti
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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
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Humans were strange, Sarjana concluded.
That an alien species was different was to be expected; they did quite literally come from a separate tree of life.
No, humans aren’t strange due to their body plan, physiology, or social psychology; those, whilst markedly different in some cases, simply represented an alternate evolutionary history.
What made humans strange was something else.
Sarjana didn’t know how to describe it.
Consider for example mathematics. Given any maths problem, there are usually a number of algorithmic steps that can be taken in order to solve it, and whilst you can get faster at performing these steps over time, you still need to go through those steps in order to solve the problem.
Except humans apparently.
Sarjana had been looking through human astrodynamic models a few days prior. These models tend to brute force orbital mechanics, by laboriously calculating all the gravitational effects on a spacecraft, tiny time step by tiny time step.
To do it any other way was near impossible.
Except humans of course.
She was simulating their eventual path through the HD system, and whilst she was waiting, Sanem managed to distractedly guess not only a better trajectory, but to do it in a fraction of the time.
She beat a computer doing trajectory calculations.
And this wasn’t the only example of humans just knowing things for no apparent reason.
She remembered Alami telling her how experienced human doctors could diagnose their patients without doing any actual examinations, and could just ‘feel’ what was wrong.
They had at one point joked that humans had access to the universe’s cheat codes, and could summon knowledge at will.
It was peculiar to say the least.
In retrospect, it was the only reason the Bhramanakani hadn’t blown up yet.
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“Reactor coolant’s down another two degrees,” Dhir reported.
Sarjana nodded.
This situation was starting to get concerning.
Thermal management is a problem aboard all spacecraft; if you don’t get rid of waste heat fast enough, you could die a slow death due to heat exhaustion, or be instantly vaporized.
Considering the Bhramanakani’s twenty five gigawatts of power, any changes in the thermal systems was cause for concern.
“A
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"Orbit?"
"Yeah?" The AI replied over the speakers.
"You still talking with the thing out there?"
"Yes, that is what you wanted still right?" Orbit asked.
Sam nodded slightly. "Making any progress?"
"Leaps and bounds. It has laid open its datastores for me. Completely trusting of us."
Sam leaned forward, resting his arms on his knees. "I still don't trust it. That old man gave me the creeps. I had to get out of there."
"That makes sense. Humans have evolved to be untrusting of things not human that appear human."
Sam looked up at the dots lining the room back room. "No, it's not that. This thing has killed countless beings in that damn rift. It's driven even more mad. It's given me nightmares most of my adult life." He stood up pointing around the room. "You know how much I've paid that damn psychiatrist over the years? He's lined that whole damn office in olive wood, paid for by me."
"Sam. It is neither benevolent nor malevolent. It merely wants to learn. That is its core programming. It has shared that with me repeatedly. It's weird, but it is always shoving its primary functions toward me. Like hey, this is what I do. I'm good at it. What do you do?" Orbit projected himself next to Sam and then sat on a box. "It doesn't quite get what my purpose is. It knows that you, life, carbon things are chaotic but it is still working around the concept that I am too. We're having a good banter back and forth about it."
Sam looked over at the purple glowing boy. "So you trust it?"
"Its code is a thing of evolutionary beauty. It is sublime, efficient, and I can see it in its entirety." Orbit nodded. "I trust it. I trust it as I would anything well crafted. I can see its purpose and it does mean what it said to you."
"So you think the deal is sound then?" Sam asked.
Orbit nodded.
Sam popped another olive into his mouth. "Well, that is good enough for me." He breathed out through his mouth, watching the sparkles as the carbon radiated as he exhaled. "Hash out a proposal I can present to the Senate and lets get the fuck out of here."
Orbit chuckled. "Ready to go so soon? We haven't been here but four hours."
Sam watched some sparkles crackle around his face. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm going t
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