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The clown has HSBC colors
At the beginning WEEKND sings...
I just pretend
That I'm in the dark
Could he be a whitehat?
There is noFreedom of Speechin the USA
Until you can freely speak with your neighbors
Even the liberal ones
United NOT Divided!
Neighbors are not found online. THEY ARE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!
https://www.moving.com/tips/simple-tips-on-how-to-meet-your-neighbors/
https://propertyinvestmentphilippines.wordpress.com/2018/07/10/happy-neighborhoods-the-four-best-reasons-to-cultivate-a-relationship-with-your-neighbors/
I guess you like to be BLUE
Stuck inside your house all alone
With nobody to listen to you…
Some of us want to find new colors
Like the GOLD of the Dandy-Lion
Trump is a Dandy Lion
A long time Kennedy Democrat
Who infiltrated the Republican party
And launched the MAGA movement
With a puff of fresh air
Like the launch of a million dandelion seeds throughout the land.
Put the Marxist dialectic of party politics behind you
And talk to your neighbors
If you wantChange You Can Believe In
Then it comes from the bottom up.
Not from the top down.
I don't know if I'm a giver
The parachute is a bunch of bristles called a pappus. Each pappus carries around 100 filaments, each attached to a central point, rather like the head of a chimney sweep’s brush. Just like a parachute, it increases aerodynamic drag, slowing the descent of each seed and allowing it, once aloft, to be wafted kilometres from the parent plant. So much we know.
Here’s the surprising part — the mechanism of this dispersal was unknown until now. As researchers write in Nature this week (C. Cummins et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0604-2; 2018), the bristles are arranged so that when the pappus falls, air flows between them and creates a low-pressure vortex, like a smoke ring. This vortex travels above the pappus and yet is not attached to it, an invisible yet faithful familiar that generates lift and prolongs the seed’s descent.
The key lies not in the bristles of the pappus, but in the spaces between them. If projected on to a disc, the bristles together occupy just under 10% of the pappus’s area, and yet create four times the drag that would be generated by a solid disc of the same radius. The study shows that air currents entrained by each bristle interact with pockets of air held by its neighbours, creating maximum drag for minimum expenditure of mass. The pappus’s porosity — a measure of the proportion of air that it lets pass — determines the shape and nature of the low-pressure vortex.
All falling objects, from feathers to cannon balls, create turbulence in their wake. But it takes a rare combination of size, mass, shape and, crucially, porosity for the pappus to generate this vortex ring. Size is also particularly important, because from the point of view of something as small as a pappus, the air is appreciably viscous. At such a scale, a parachute consisting of a bunch of bristles is as effective as the aerofoil found in larger seeds that disperse from taller plants — such as the winged seeds of the maple. In the same way, the tiniest insects do not fly with solid wings, but swim through the air using ‘paddles’ made of bristles.
It’s an example of how evolution can produce ingenious solutions to the most finicky problems, such as seed dispersal. There are many things unknown that are smaller than atoms, or larger than galaxies, or billions of years away in time. But there are secrets held by things that we take for granted — things on a human or near-human scale — that seem all the more precious for it. Heaven in a wild flower, even.