The Science And Nature Thread #2

A right load of bollocks...

Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby Gerst » Wed Sep 26, 2018 7:09 pm

Here's some scenic pics of my local park. The park is the old grounds of a Georgian Hall, with a small church, rectory, gamekeeper's house, fish ponds, herb gardens, ornamental lake, a small lane of terraced cottages – all like something out of Jane Austen. The Hall fell into disrepair after the last squire died childless in 1917, and it was eventually demolished in the 1950s when the land was bought by the council and they let all us local oiks in.

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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby Gerst » Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:11 pm

Not much going on the park, butterflywise. Saw one speckled wood which buggered off. This huge ivy bush was covered in commas and red admirals last year. This year, nothing...

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Here's some colourful oaks leaves instead:

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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby LordRaven » Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:05 am

Gerst wrote:Here's some scenic pics of my local park. The park is the old grounds of a Georgian Hall, with a small church, rectory, gamekeeper's house, fish ponds, herb gardens, ornamental lake, a small lane of terraced cottages – all like something out of Jane Austen. The Hall fell into disrepair after the last squire died childless in 1917, and it was eventually demolished in the 1950s when the land was bought by the council and they let all us local oiks in.

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That is really lovely, and I am amazed you see Red Admirals these days because I have not seen one for years.
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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby Niv » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:58 am

That park looks lovely... Fantastic photographs Gerst :smilin:
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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby LordRaven » Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:14 pm

Space Junk is almost on a par with plastic pollution of the oceans...



How on (sorry off) earth are they going to be able to deal with all that crap? It is so dangerous for spacecraft and they need some huge orbiting fishing net to start collecting the junk
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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby Cobs » Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:42 pm

But after going missing, feared extinct, for 38 years, the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered on the Indonesian islands of the North Moluccas.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/21/worlds-largest-bee-missing-for-38-years-found-in-indonesia

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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby Niv » Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:29 am

Cobs wrote:But after going missing, feared extinct, for 38 years, the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered on the Indonesian islands of the North Moluccas.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/21/worlds-largest-bee-missing-for-38-years-found-in-indonesia

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You'd know it if that bugger stung you :kinell:
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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby Drunk Dalek » Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:37 am

Niv wrote:
Cobs wrote:But after going missing, feared extinct, for 38 years, the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered on the Indonesian islands of the North Moluccas.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/21/worlds-largest-bee-missing-for-38-years-found-in-indonesia

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You'd know it if that bugger stung you :kinell:


Speak for yourself :snooty:
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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby Niv » Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:43 am

Drunk Dalek wrote:
Niv wrote:
Cobs wrote:But after going missing, feared extinct, for 38 years, the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered on the Indonesian islands of the North Moluccas.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/21/worlds-largest-bee-missing-for-38-years-found-in-indonesia

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You'd know it if that bugger stung you :kinell:


Speak for yourself :snooty:


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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby art0hur0moh » Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:09 pm

Gerst wrote:Here's an article on the effects of the summer heatwave on UK flora and fauna. There's not that much about butterflies or any indication there is a problem for them this year, the opposite in fact, and of course there's still time for many species to appear – Commas and Red Admirals were still flying in late September last year.

http://theconversation.com/wildlife-win ... ave-100408

there was a heat wave last year?
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Re: The Science And Nature Thread #2

Postby LordRaven » Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:52 pm

Science is being ignored and because of it nature is taking one hell of a battering.
I was reading about the Typhoon in Japan on the tube and people's lives have been destroyed and god knows what all this freak weather is doing to flora and fauna.
With rivers of meltwater running under the Greenland ice cap, the gulf stream salinity has got to change so one wonders what that will mean for the worlds conveyor belt ocean current system and all life that relies on it continuing to operate.
Not wanting to sound like some 16 year old scandanavian girl I really do think it time the UN grew a pair of balls and called on all governments to take urgent action to determine exactly wtf is going on.
We are undoubtedly in a natural inter-glacial period but the speed at which the world is warming suggests that we are having a significant impact.
Extinction Rebellion are making a very good point --very badly in some cases, but they do have a point.
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