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Its primary vector is the asian citrus psyllid. But you're right, once the bacteria is present in the plant tissue it can be transmitted to other healty plants via diseased grafts.


No created or temporary thing can ever fulfill you in the way you recognize that you are unfulfilled.


It's not the plants themselves that fix nitrogen but endosymbiotic microorganisms in the soil.


I know. For simplicity, I was talking about the plants in the same generic sense that your gut microbiome is a part of you, and the dead tissues that form your hair and skin are also a part of you.

You still need to hack up the eg cereal plants so they can actually engage in that symbiotic relationship (or perhaps actually directly fix nitrogen all by themselves, without any outside help at all).


N-fixation does happen in the soil, but legumes have root nodules that host rhizobium bacteria and can assimilate the N much more easily


As a comparison, one habanero (not the crazy ghost/chocolate cultivars, but the plain jane habanero) is 150k Scoville units. Serranos top out at 25k.



Eventually it will get cheap enough to where people can be buried on the (shot at the) moon.


Talked about this with my partner this week. Somebody is going to yeet their ashes into the regolith some day.



And indeed has been done too!

"The human remains aboard the lander won't be the first on the moon, as ashes of Gene Shoemaker, the founder of astrogeology, were buried on the moon in the late 1990s by the Lunar Prospector."


I believe that is illegal in every country, putting human remains on foreign bodies.


It's not, and there've already been (failed) attempts. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/08/peregrine-moon-lander-launc...

> In addition to the NASA science experiments on board the Peregrine lander are cremated human remains and DNA collected by two private companies, Celestis and Elysium Space.

> People hoping to memorialize their loved ones or colleagues pay the companies thousands to send a few grams of cremated ashes to the moon in metal capsules.


It was visible as far south as northern San Antonio last night.


Gorsuch and Thomas want to rein it in. Read the article.


In Latin American countries (and Spain) the paternal surname goes first, followed by the maternal surname.


I used it in a graduate course on formal semantics (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Semantics+in+Generative+Grammar-... after I graduated I wanted to learn how to program so I googled "lambda calculus programming language" and found Haskell. That was ten years ago. Though I rarely use Haskell anymore, the lambda calculus still holds a special place.


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