Assuming a 16-hour day for activity, that's just over a bird a minute. Given the flocking behaviour of many species, that might mean occasional "rainfalls" of dead and injured birds.
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This is an amazing resource. I bought the first edition of the book when it came out and it completely transformed the way I look at plants. Also, I might have had fun building funky tree-like objects on my computer screen. :)
However, Mrs Strapp said a solution was still needed to stop possums nesting under solar panels and prevent burns from hot rooftops in the first place.
I can't speak to the hot surfaces, but around here screening the edges of rooftop solar panels is standard procedure to prevent bats and wasps from taking up residence underneath.
That's what 3D printing is for...
I think for maximum uselessness, they should not be overlapping spheres, but deform at the interface, like soap bubbles or rubber balls. As long as the spheres are the same size and modelled with the same "surface tension" or "elasticity", the "intersection" of two sets would then be a circular interface with an area proportional to what would otherwise be an overlap (I think). If the spheres have different sizes or are modelled with different surface tension or elasticity, one would "intrude" into the other.
Multiple sets would have increasingly complex shapes that may or not also create volumes external to the deformed spheres but still surrounded by the various interfaces.
Time to break out the mathematics of bubbles and foam. This data ain't gonna obscure itself!
Might there actually be utility to something like this? Scrunch the spheres together but make invisible everything that is not an interface and label the faces accordingly. I suppose the same could be said of the shape described by overlapping. (Jesus, you'd think I was high or something. Just riffing.)
This is my first exposure to a plain text Venn diagram. Genius.
When we moved from the city to the middle of nowhere, our commute went from 8 km to 22 km each way. It still took about 20 minutes. But "rush hour" was the occasional herd of deer or elk instead of a bunch of drivers who were either too aggressive or too passive. A "traffic jam" was one vehicle, ours, waiting for a piece of farm equipment to move out of the way a few times a year instead of the weekly transformation from roadway to parking lot.
Even when I switched over to driving school bus, I could count on one hand the number of other vehicles I interacted with each week.
It's impossible to express how much that improved our mental states.
Thanks. Sometimes overviews are the most important things to create. It's tough to know where to start without a map!
I read the introduction (linked page) in detail and skimmed the next two chapters. That's not enough to form a concrete opinion, but plenty to judge this worthy of my reading list.
Permafrost, yes, but I don't know if the land under glaciers had been included even though it might still be permafrost.
When I hear "permafrost", I think not of land under glaciers, but the underground layer of ground that stays below freezing even when the topsoil thaws in summer.
This is an aspect of sea level rise that I started to think about after moving to the shore of a large reservoir created by damming a river.
The difference between high water (late spring or early summer) after spring runoff and low water (late winter or early spring) is frequently 5 metres or more. The steep, sometimes vertical, terrain is just deeper water at the shoreline. The beaches and low lying terrain might see the shoreline move as much as 100 metres with maybe 5 times that incursion along seasonal creek beds.
If the water gets higher than usual, it can overtop a small rise and fill a basin, adding a hundred meters to the extent of a shoreline overnight.
I was not worried about banks at all. Not even a bit. It just seemed too much to hope for that they couldn't get their collective heads around my 25-year mortgage. That mortgage meant that I had negative net worth, so I was actually hoping they'd screw up. Yes, I knew they had paper copies kicking around, but paper gets lost with frightening frequency.
I was a freelance programmer at the time. My main focus was on making sure that none of my contracts left me on the hook for anything Y2K related that wasn't explicitly contracted for.