Stopharage wrote:Could this crowd of people smell the rose quicker than it could produce aroma? Yours unscientifically.daviedigi wrote:no as long as its planted, and in good health it will still collect nutrients and sunlight and produce the aroma. if not planted however it will at some undetermined point lose its aroma, same if it withers or recieves too little or too much nutrients or sunlight.Stopharage wrote:This is a mystery to me and me only I would posit. If loads of people were crowded round a rose and kept sniffing would it run out of aroma? For the sakes of this idiotic question, the rose is planted firmly in the ground and the crowd of people can be 1000+. I've always wanted this to be satisfactorily and scientifically answered since I was a teenager. Ridiculous really.
M0stly harm13ss wrote:I should be working....
Is the olfactory energy a waste by product or a product produced to attract insects?Tempy wrote:Yeah it converts the nutrients from the ground into sustenance and olfactory energy is the waste which then dissipates into the atmosphere, if there are no nutrios it basically withers and dies and the olfactory energy is no longer ceated as a waste product as it is dead. fermodynamics innit
also, i second this. nice one davy.g.man wrote:Ooooh, that^ was a great read! nice one g.man
tin_robot wrote:The Voynich Manuscript - a (probably) 15th Century manuscript discovered in 1912, written in an indecipherable language. From the illustrations it would seem to be about plants, and perhaps their medical uses - however most of the plants drawn are not of a known species either. No-one has been able to crack the code to date, despite considerable effort. It seems most likely that it's a very old hoax, but if so, the complexity of language contained within it is such as to imply it's a very, very good one. If nothing else it's a very beautiful old book - and if you fancy your chances as a code breaker the whole thing's available online.
davyK wrote:A Bond villian-esque crime caper from the 70s that was never adequately explained... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
superflyninja wrote:Gahh!!!!!! anyone else read that caver blog?Spoiler:
tttttthats what I do. I highlight the text and click the button. but everything spoilersTempy wrote:Edit, press the button at the end that removes code, delete the spoiler tags (there are two sets) In future, right the stuff, highlight what you want to spoiler an then click the button.superflyninja wrote:Gahh!!!!!! anyone else read that caver blog?Spoiler:
daviedigi wrote:thats a great read.A Bond villian-esque crime caper from the 70s that was never adequately explained... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
davyK wrote:daviedigi wrote:thats a great read.A Bond villian-esque crime caper from the 70s that was never adequately explained... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
Found it a few weeks ago after reading about Lord Lucan via the wonders of the reference/links section....
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