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geckzilla wrote:
My friend posted this photo over at Facebook in a series of photos documenting the effects of the ice storm on the plant life around her home in Texas. Remarkably, its leaves remained free of ice except for the pieces which became lodged in various crevices. She said all the other plants around it were icicles. A quick search reveals that this is called the lotus effect. Useful!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_effect wrote:
<<Although the self-cleaning phenomenon of the lotus was possibly known in Asia long before (reference to the lotus effect is found in the Bhagavad Gita) its mechanism was explained only in the early 1970s after the introduction of the scanning electron microscope. By the mid 1990s, Wilhelm Barthlott developed industrial products and trademarked the principle as the Lotus-Effect.>>
We do have them in the mountains, but we rarely see more than a few at a time. Big herds like this are very unusual.Beyond wrote:I thought pronghorns were strictly a plains animal. How did they ever get up the mountain to that itty-bitty patch of plains looking area by your place :?:
Oh, weren't there fires down around the bottom a while back :?:
Our "antelope" (pronghorn) aren't really antelope, our "buffalo" (bison) aren't really buffalo, and our "elk" (wapiti) aren't really elk. All these names simply come from the Europeans who first came here and pigeonholed the species they encountered according to animals they were already familiar with.Ann wrote:Your pictures of elk surprised me. I had no idea elk could look like that.
We have moose, as well. Very rare around here, they are slowly drifting in from the north. I've only encountered one once (a couple of years ago), and didn't have a camera. A handful are now seen in this county every year. The only deer species in North America larger than the elk.geckzilla wrote:Those are moose over here, Ann.
-93.0ºC = -135.3ºFChris Peterson wrote:
I shot this just in front of my house, and wouldn't have wanted to be any farther away. 8°F, but a wind chill putting that into negative numbers. Brrr.
-40°C = -40°F ... cold in anyone's language.neufer wrote:-93.0ºC = -135.3ºF
But above −78.5 °C (−109.3 °F) the dry ice is sublime.Nitpicker wrote:-40°C = -40°F ... cold in anyone's language.neufer wrote:
-93.0ºC = -135.3ºF
Like Simon Cowell (Only under pressure at a lot of karaoke bars.)Nitpicker wrote:
Yet there is the risk it might become supercritical.
Where there's smoke there's Art.neufer wrote:Like Simon Cowell (Only under pressure at a lot of karaoke bars.)