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A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)

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Re: A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)

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Funny wording to use "break" for IP theft, it looks different when the British do it compared to when the Chinese do it, doesn't it?

There's a difference between ressources and IP.

I'm pretty certain Monsanto disagrees with that statement.

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There's a difference between ressources and IP.

Is there? If I steal a prototype from a company or tea saplings and ruin the companies business? If there is any it looks very superficial to me.

People don't generally know much about plant breeding, so they have no appreciation for it. They think almost production-ready lineages just grow out there, god-given to the humankind. They don't realize there can be 10s or 100s of years R&D work behind a cultivar.

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If there was a plant that is not green, would it have last as long? Just wondering if the photosynthesis is only exclusive to green plants.

It is not exclusive to green plants. You can see the cercis canadensis for example, not sure how it is done though.

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If there was a plant that is not green, would it have last as long? Just wondering if the photosynthesis is only exclusive to green plants.

We made these at work couple years back, I have a nice red leafed plant in it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nw3yxphorc2h9v1/PHOTO-2019-04-26-1...

The only thing that almost killed it was direct sunlight, I think it got too hot and all the moisture was pulled out to the top.

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After initial transportation failures, sealed terrariums were used by Robert Fortune to send stolen tea seedlings from China to India,[1] thus helping the British to break the nineteenth Century Chinese monopoly on tea production. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00H9J1AM2/

Funny wording to use "break" for IP theft, it looks different when the British do it compared to when the Chinese do it, doesn't it?

You can’t steal something that’s not legitimately your property. IP isn’t a justified legal concept, it’s a form of illegitimate regulation used by corporations to cement monopolies and threaten the competition with legistlation

Re: A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)

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If there was a plant that is not green, would it have last as long? Just wondering if the photosynthesis is only exclusive to green plants.

There is nothing specific about green. Chlorophyll A and Chlorophyll B have different absorption spectrums. Depending on the specific combination of those two, the plants can appear in a different colours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll#/media/File:Chloro...

There are other pigments that cannot photosynthesise on their own, but can pass the energy to chlorophyll to react, as well. So while green usually means photosynthesis, absence of green does not mean absence thereof.

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss3/pigments.html

Re: A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)

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After initial transportation failures, sealed terrariums were used by Robert Fortune to send stolen tea seedlings from China to India,[1] thus helping the British to break the nineteenth Century Chinese monopoly on tea production. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00H9J1AM2/

Funny wording to use "break" for IP theft, it looks different when the British do it compared to when the Chinese do it, doesn't it?

Even patents/copyright are eventually broken.

IP rights are an exchange of temporary protection for ideas and implementation, in order to encourage both innovation and disclosure.

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If there was a plant that is not green, would it have last as long? Just wondering if the photosynthesis is only exclusive to green plants.

What other plants are there? Photosynthesis is performed in/by chlorophyll which is green, so it's hard to not be green.

There is a puprle earth hypothesis and Haloarchaea, which is based on witamin A related molecule for photosythesis, but those are not classified as plants.

The current theory for inception of plants is that one cell captured another chlorophyllic one and created symbiotic organism, which later evolved into multicelluar plants. So by definition plants should be green for phototrophy ("feeding on light"), until it would somehow evolved chlorophyllic cells, but ot seems they are older than plantae themselves.

Btw. similar theory exists for mitochondria and eukaryota, that's why we speak of my mitochondrial DNA.

Re: A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)

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Can plants be used to clean pollutants from the atmosphere in a space station? Maybe not: https://www.gardenmyths.com/garden-myth-born-plants-dont-pur... https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/indoor-p...

It seems like as a rough approximation your plants would need to grow at least as much biomass as you eat every day.

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Re: A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny wording to use "break" for IP theft, it looks different when the British do it compared to when the Chinese do it, doesn't it?

There's a difference between ressources and IP.

The lines get real blurry with GMO.
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