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ivory billed -> cuckoo
Global warming, the birds which are used by the cuckoo arrive earlier from Africa. When the cuckoo finally arrives there are no eggs in the nests but nestlings. No chance that the birds will raise a late cuckoo nestling. I hear them very rarely now and report the place. There are several projects how to save the cuckoo, one is to capture cuckoo and teach them to breed themself.
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55 minutes ago, gogoblender said:
diatomaceous earth -> ants
isnt this used as a non toxic ant killer as well
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gogo
Yes, you can use it against ants. It sticks to the oil layer on ant skin and they dry out. You can buy an anti-ant bag with 200g for 2€ at a vegan shop, or you can buy 10kg for 11€ at farm supply for you birds or as earth for bonsai trees
ants -> European green woodpecker
What you put in one end of the woodpecker leaves on the other end
Nice birds by the way. We have some near the house and whenever I cut the gras they look for ants.
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fluffy -> diatomaceous earth
Quails are fluffy at least the first days when they just escaped the egg. To keep blood sucking insects away I use Kieselgur. In English it has the complicated name above. It is sediment from fossil algae powdered to fine dust. I hate to use insectoids considering that we eat the quail eggs.
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fractal -> Apfelmännchen / small apple-people
We call pictures of the Mandelbrot set small apple-people. I remember when we calculated them at school on an old DAI computer. At least I learned to code in 8080 machine code. Which proved to be useful when I repaired the washing machine of my mom by installing a small motherboard with a 8085. The washing machine had lot of possible programs more now
Today I would have used a PI Raspberryi think.
The reason for the name small apple-people
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sequence -> Kraterbeet
Fibonacci numbers are a way to talk about cooking. Romanesco broccoli grows in Fibonacci spirales and is a sort of fractale. A math needs to plant some in his garden. In my case a Kraterbeet. A Beet is a cuktivated place in a garden to plant herbs. A Krater is a crater. It is a round place, lower to the south to let the sun in, higher in the north for higher vegs. In the mid it is wet for water loving vegs. Without plants it looks much like a small meteorid hit the gound.
The Kraterbeet which inspirated me. But I had to place it near a forest and a hill. My has no watering with pipes and the hill takes the role of the stones. But this one is more to give the idea
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brunch -> mathematics
Medicine students had to do math lessons. The med lessons were in afternoon after professors finished their surgeries. Math lessons for mathematics after pre-diploma were mainly after lunch. So we were sleeping long, had a late but big breakfast and no lunch...
Nurse school was same building with mathematics, so while the med students were sleepy in evening we were full awake-
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At our open-doors day 2022 we sold 500 lunch pakets. For a village with just 128 people, there must have been visitors from the surroundings. Not all came to watch our firefighting equip or basic training in firefighting and prevention, some for music and good food.
From the 128 people more than the half are active or passive firefighters. Actually in our area of responsibility (village borders and forest belongig it to) there was no single fire for 30+ years. Hornet and wasp nests, flooding, fallen trees after a storm, car crashes on a secondary,... - but not a single fire. Neighbour villages were not so happy.
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Sorry missed the birthday
We had disaster warming at thursday. We were pumping a garage which got flooded in the valley. No car in, but tons with Sauerkraut, a fish smoker filled with trouts, potatoes, onions and other storable food all swimming. Owner wanted to throw it away. But we firefighters were hungry, it was clear water from a rivelet and we had a field kitchen with us.
Sauerkrautpuffer mit Sosse von geräucherter Forelle - Yummy
Sauerkrautpuffer is like potato pancake but using Sauerkraut. We cut the useful parts from the smoked trouts away and put them in a mincer found in the garage and made a mousse/sauce from it.
Welcome to the home of gourmands. Let the gourmets and food control in the towns...
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warp-drive -> easy
Don't know what is so complicated avout warp, every one can do it....
The 'Enterprise' has a crew of 500. Around 100 you see in the series. The other 400 are needed for warp speed. Scotty crying into the secret rainbow phone which is so secret nobody has ever seen it in TV. 'Turn on the music, we are going Warp speed!' .
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
Put your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tightBut it's the pelvic thrust
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The weather forecast for today was: We can't predict it. One place may have 100litre rain per square metre, the neighbour village staying dry, there might be tornados but we can't say where, there might be hail storm with size of 2cm, there might be 34C, ...
A high pressure from scandinavia will meet a deep pressure from mediterran just in our area. All I know is our house is centuries old and was never hit by heavy weather being half in a hill. So I do what I allways do: hope that my ancestors were wise in choosing the place for the house.
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gold -> ion engine
My university was using gold for their early tests with ion engines. Students had to do protocols how much they used. Took a while till a working ion engine saved the Artemis satellite.
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rapid eye movements -> Homonym
REM is either this REM sleep thing or my former ability to check a party room for the most beautiful girl in few nano-seconds.
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Feuerschwanz (fire tail) is a german medieval band. Normally doing funny medieval songs in German, like 'Untot im Drachenboot / undead in a dragon boat". But they did also a great cover of ManOWar's 'Warriors Of The World United'.
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misunderstood -> R.E.M.
The One I Love is often wished in radio as a love song - but it isn't. And yes I listen to radio and not a mp3 player when I drive a car. I like the randomness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_I_Love_(R.E.M._song)
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homoiothermic -> cold-blooded
Cold-blooded horses encompass the draft breeds such as Percherons, Shires, Clydesdales, and Belgians. Large-boned and heavy-bodied, these horses were developed to use in draft and agricultural work, and were selected for a calm temperament.
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2 hours ago, gogoblender said:
earthquake -> Montreal
SO rare for earthquakes to occur here... were part of the *canadian shield* .. a large mantle of super dense igneous rock that extends across canada from west to east... and... there ya go, looks like my geography could teach after all
gogo
In averagen every 9000-10000 years a vulcan eruption happens at my place. The last was 13000 years ago. And yes, we get little quakes up to 3.5 a few times a year.
Montreal -> Ugly
The Montreal is one of the more ugly cars from Alfa Romeo.
The sportscar before they built the Montreal was the Stradale, better name and design in my unholy opinion.
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Our second came with lot of origami stuff at weekend. She has to do a lecture at university to other students how origami is used in orthopedics, heart surgery, ... We were the testrun and had a lot of fun folding thinks.
My brother has a origami cayak boat. I works fine but at my place: too much wildwater with stones.
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Final check after my whiplash. Got allowance to work with explosives again. But I felt weaker than before the check. Docs asked me if I would spend blood because they allways run low around summer breaks. 0-negativ
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No rain for weeks. Luckily we were creative last year and built a reservoir for water in case of a nearby forest fire. That it looks like a swimming pool was not intented or planed. Daily tests for ruptures in the ceramic tiles are done. Other call it swimming in a pool. But since it is a water reservoir I call it savety tests.
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tempest -> typhoon2001
Recoded freeware version
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six million dollar man -> nurse
They are testing exo-skeletons attached to nurses to help them lifting heavy people, both passive and motorized ones. Out second is at university: orthopedics and robotics. A classmate lost both arms down to the shoulder plates. This made her considering this combination of fields. The exoskeletons for nurses cover both aspects too. She says they are a great help.
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stars -> Hollywood Walk of Fame
But I think for us Germans finding a place in Walhalla is more important.
Around 200 people found their place in Walhalla.
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Sagacious -> Sagittarius
My zodiac, but very close to capricorn
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The Related Word Game - 2017!
in Key Largo Beach Resort and General Discussion
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clockwise -> turpentine
Turpentine oil molecules are clockwise orientated in american turpentine but anti-clockwise in french one. I think different trees used. Germany uses traditional a different way of winning the wood oil, using local trees which need a fifferent way of production, called Kienöl.
My heating system uses wood pellets, They are turned into wood gas. The gas drives a capsuled engine. The cooling water heats the house. The engine also generates power Turpentine remains in the wood gas are to be avoided because they crystallize and damage the engine.
Thats why they are called BHKW, Blockheizkraftwerk, block powerplant with heating. They have to be small and capsuled to use nearly all the energy.