🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@jmw

So I spoke of "most plants" there is no one rule... There are a few common mechanisms that can be at play for plants:

* length of day
* Temperature
* inter tree communication

There are probably others I'm not thinking of.

Each plant cares about different things. For example cannabis cares **only** and length of day. So if thats all you control its all you need to get them to flower. This is typical of plants that can grow in the tropics where it doesnt get cold.

Non-coniferous trees are a bit more complex, they use a mix of signals including intertree communication, temperature, and length of day. To they may trigger later in the season if its a warm season.

Largely the difference from season to season with trees is due to temperature.

@SpaceLifeForm

@SpaceLifeForm The fact that they reflect green is somewhat interesting,and has some interesting consequences.

That said its response to red and blue is not usually how most plants can tell the season (there are some exceptions). Most plants detect the season based on the length of daylight not its color.

However plants do respond to red and blue light in very interesting and different ways.. many plants respond to blue light be decreasing inter nodal distances for example.

@lucifargundam

Thats because it is always peoples fault.. corporations dont have their own thought, so even then its people :)

@AmpBenzScientist @LouisIngenthron

Man Season 3 of Picard is when this show really starts to shine... mostly funny moments and quotes, the storyline isnt bad .. but either way im loving this!

@sergeant You need a few kicks to the head from a mule before you can understand our southern pronunciations :)

Maybe its just that.. but they look chubbier so i dunno

@realcaseyrollins I didnt see it but i actually have nothing againt it... Just looked like it would probably be a lot of woke cringe and didnt appeal to me.

You ever wonder why the small band of spectrum we can see (called visible light) is special? I mean almost all animals see in light ranges are are somewhere around here. I mean sure some can see a little farther into IR or UV but in general all animals see roughly around this same narrow band of frequencies in an otherwise infinite spectrum... So what is so special?

Its actually a quantum thing. Everything roughly around visible light and higher interacts with material by electrons jumping energy levels. However IR energy is absorbed by the bonds between molecules instead, which is why IR represents heat.

Basically visible light is right where these two modes intersect. Essentially they are the lowest energy part of the spectrum that is still high enough energy to interact primarily through changing energy levels of electrons. Essentially any more energy and it wont really get through the atmosphere as extreme UV is cut off.. any lower and it wouldnt be very effecieient cause most of the energy goes to heating the eye rather than seeing... So its right in that sweet spot.

@realcaseyrollins I had to click this thread to see if you finally watched the Barbie movie... to my relief you did not!

@freepeoplesfreepress vacuum is ideal for a cold weld though

@freepeoplesfreepress

self-healing metal doesnt sound like anything all that new... soounds like cold-welding.. i need to read up on this though.

interestingly you can buy self healing silicone easy enough which is cool stuff!

@realcaseyrollins

Hmm gonna call this the "sausage finger conjecture!"

@cgervasi

> If #Biden's evil, he has me fooled.

Yes as I said in my original message that is what he is good at, lying and fooling people. So yes I am not surprised he has you fooled, and others.

As people know, and I've told this to @stux I think before too... Biden is an old family friend. He has been going to my parents house for dinner since before I was born. It very well may be that me knowing him personally makes it more obvious to me than others.

> I think he's a morally good person.

He most certainly isnt.

> I think if he abided segregation long ago, it was an honest mistake.

I mean it seems hard to judge 10 - 15 years of pushing segregation when he specifically says its because he wants his kids to not go to school with other races "racial jungle" as he puts it... to me that goes well beyond an honest mistake.

It also seems very obvious that he hasnt changed other than to go from directly being racist to exploiting minorities instead... but his comments seem quite clear he isnt any better a man and is still just going to use minorities to his own advantage.

@cgervasi

Seems the only part of that we agree on is Trump then.

I mean I do agree with "but he's not purposely firing people up with bigotry".. he does make sure to hide his evil (which in some ways is worse).. so I do sorta agree that he doesnt intentionally rile people up sure, largely because he tries to hide how horrible a person he is, trump doesnt.

@stux