arthwollipot
Observer of Phenomena, Pronouns: he/him
There's canola fields all over the country. I saw a bunch of them on my recent trip to Rutherglen.
A scientific fact/tidbit you recently learned that you thought was interesting
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That gives me placebo hayfever!Took this photo today and shared it elsewhere, and found out canola fields are visible from space.
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Flowers bloom so bright they can be seen from space
Stunning photos of Western Australia's canola crops can be seen in much of the countryside, on social media and in satellite images.www.abc.net.au
Had to look that one up - so thanks.
Jim_MDP
Philosopher
Tidally locked to the sun, right?
So that makes sense. Same with polar craters on our moon.
rjh01
Gentleman of leisure
No. A day on Mercury lasts two Mercury years. Ref: https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/23-How-long-is-a-day-on-Mercury-
Edit: More about the planet https://science.nasa.gov/mercury/facts/
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bruto
Penultimate Amazing
Shall we count down to when Trump remarks that Australia is a hotbed of rape?
I was going to ask if he meant fields of rape.
Filippo Lippi
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Surprised to see so much oil-seed rape grown in Australia when we passed peak-OSR here (UK) about 10 years ago.
arthwollipot
Observer of Phenomena, Pronouns: he/him
Yeah well there's a reason we call it canola now.
shemp
a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
Jim_MDP
Philosopher
Very cool indeed, thanks.
And icing not as I thought but just as on our moon...
"Mercury may have water ice at its north and south poles inside deep craters, but only in regions in permanent shadows. In those shadows, it could be cold enough to preserve water ice despite the high temperatures on sunlit parts of the planet."
arthwollipot
Observer of Phenomena, Pronouns: he/him
The Turks invented canola.
Helen
Implicitly explicit
And rape.
Sorry, that should have been seed.
Sorry, that should have been rape seed.
Sumer was unknown to modern history and archeology until about 1870 and now we can read their writing. So, we can read stuff from 4000k+ years ago that nobody knew even existed 200+ years ago. I'm sure most of you have heard of that writing system which was used for about 2000 years, cuneiform.
ETA: There are letters from teachers complaining about kids these days and letters from student complaining about teachers. Scribe school was a thing so, figures.
The earliest Chinese writing we know about appears to be bout 3000+years old on oracle bones. Diviners would carve a question on a bone then bake it to form cracks. They interpreted the cracks as answers to the questions would also be carved on the bones. That script is called oracle bone script.
ETA: There are letters from teachers complaining about kids these days and letters from student complaining about teachers. Scribe school was a thing so, figures.
The earliest Chinese writing we know about appears to be bout 3000+years old on oracle bones. Diviners would carve a question on a bone then bake it to form cracks. They interpreted the cracks as answers to the questions would also be carved on the bones. That script is called oracle bone script.
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EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
Puppycow
Penultimate Amazing
Price?
I suppose I don't care that much, but I don't like it. Its proper place is not in a museum (it's just a rock like any other rock now) but on the peak of that mountain.
ETA: and are they certain that it's actually what it's claimed to be?
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Wudang
BOFH
Sperm whales have a phonetic alphabet.
www.nature.com
Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations - Nature Communications
Sperm whales use sequences of clicks to communicate. Here, the authors show that these vocalizations are significantly more complex than previously believed-the “sperm whale phonetic alphabet" has both combinatorial structure and call modulation dependent on the conversational context.
www.nature.com