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Thread ID: 150533	2022-03-14 19:45:00	Some fantastic numbers.	Roscoe (6288)	PC World Chat

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1484994	2022-03-14 19:45:00	Watched a David Attenborough programme last night where he spoke of an almond orchard that has 140 million trees with billions of flowers - 20,000 flowers on each tree, which all need to be fertilised all at once, so they bring in 40 billion bees . The flowers are only there for a few weeks . Each bee fertilisers thousands of blossoms every day with two and a half trillion flowers pollinated each day . Flowers have a negative charge, bees have a positive charge . When a bee visits the flower it changes the flower to a positive charge so they know that they have visited that flower . It must be a massive undertaking at harvest time . I knew that you would find that interesting .	Roscoe (6288)
1484995	2022-03-14 20:51:00	I wished they had shown us how they harvest the almonds. By using a tree shaker??	Zippity (58)
1484996	2022-03-14 20:52:00	The Earth's biosphere is amazingly complex and subtle and we are wandering through it and messing around with it like a bunch of idiots. Chopping down the rain forest in South America, could we be any more stupid and unaware? The answer is "yes" we are also over fishing the oceans.	zqwerty (97)
1484997	2022-03-14 21:11:00	Chopping down the rain forest in South America, could we be any more stupid and unaware? I understand that what is left supplies us with 20% of our oxygen.:annoyed:	Roscoe (6288)
1484998	2022-03-15 03:36:00	Watched a David Attenborough programme last night where he spoke of an almond orchard that has 140 million trees with billions of flowers - 20,000 flowers on each tree, which all need to be fertilised all at once, so they bring in 40 billion bees.I watched some of that episode. I found it fascinating the use of seed "balls" to help reseed the land, and how they were distributing the balls by slingshot etc. They were coating the seed with recycled charcoal dust (?) to make the balls. I would hate to think what the fine charcoal dust did to the workers lungs. They had some masks on, but you wonder if that was for the cameras.	Jen (38)
1484999	2022-03-15 04:22:00	Watched a David Attenborough programme last night where he spoke of an almond orchard that has 140 million trees with billions of flowers - 20,000 flowers on each tree, which all need to be fertilised all at once, so they bring in 40 billion bees. something like 80-90% of usa commercial beehives end up in almond pollination. they are trucked very long distances from many other states. insanely massive unloading yards. the beekeepers are nomadic for months as hive go from pollination to pollination to crops and then on to the next crop. one of the big downsides of so many hives in one aera is the diseases that get spread through out the hives. especially when pollination prices go up and beekeepers send every bit of crap beehive they can.	tweak'e (69)
1485000	2022-03-15 04:23:00	I watched some of that episode. I found it fascinating the use of seed "balls" to help reseed the land, and how they were distributing the balls by slingshot etc. They were coating the seed with recycled charcoal dust (?) to make the balls. I would hate to think what the fine charcoal dust did to the workers lungs. They had some masks on, but you wonder if that was for the cameras. lots of very cheap labour typically treated poorly.	tweak'e (69)
1485001	2022-03-15 04:24:00	I'm still amazed that a whole human being with all its intracacies can be made in 9 months.	allblack (6574)
1485002	2022-03-15 05:08:00	I'm still amazed that a whole human being with all its intracacies can be made in 9 months. Took a bit longer with me. Can't hurry creating perfection and good looks! Ken :)	kenj (9738)
1485003	2022-03-15 23:22:00	Took a bit longer with me. Can't hurry creating perfection and good looks! Ken :) :groan::groan::groan: LOL	WalOne (4202)
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