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Re: Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

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Post by roughly »

I don't know what the local fauna looks like, but I'm curious if it'd be possible to start training trees or vines across the bridges as a way to gradually replace the ropes with something more durable - I'm thinking something like the Root Bridges in India[1] that last for centuries.

I worry with projects like this that the first version's easy enough to build and show off, but if you don't keep up with the ongoing maintenance you're right back where you started within a decade, and "monkey bridge maintenance" is an easy budgetary line item for the "fiscal conservatives" to go after.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/living-root-bridges-in...

Re: Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

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Post by lotsofpulp »

vjvjvjvjghv wrote: post #10
ynac wrote: post #3

We just had our first bear crossing on a wildlife here in the Northwest. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/first-black-bear-u... I know these things are more complicated than they seem at first, but whenever these stories surface, I immediately go to an idealistic childhood cartoon land where we have a prime directive that tells us to go forth(!) and watch out for each other!

I always wonder how the world would look if the bible had said "Respect the earth and all living beings" instead of “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion…"

The tribe with the bible that directed to multiply would have conquered the tribe with the bible that directed respect the earth and all living beings because back then, might was proportional to population.

Re: Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

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Post by s1mon »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #7
korijn wrote: post #2

For one moment there I thought Amazon had done a good thing!

same - I was like "headline reads like PR but I guess it's good..." reminder to self: there was an Amazon before the bald bookseller

He also wasn't bald when he started selling books.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-25-the-m...

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Post by wat10000 »

em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #13
korijn wrote: post #2

For one moment there I thought Amazon had done a good thing!

Pet peeve: companies that appropriate a dictionary term for their name, e.g. Apple, Google (& Alphabet), Amazon, Oracle. It's really not too hard to create a new name for your company, e.g. Microsoft, Facebook and Nvidia.

I don’t think Google should be on that list. The word is “googol.”

Re: Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

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Post by inigyou »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #19
em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pet peeve: companies that appropriate a dictionary term for their name, e.g. Apple, Google (& Alphabet), Amazon, Oracle. It's really not too hard to create a new name for your company, e.g. Microsoft, Facebook and Nvidia.

Microsoft doesn’t belong in this list after they trademarked Windows, Word, Works (remember, Microsoft Works is an oxymoron) and others.

Microsoft Works was such a weird product because it was just half-assed Microsoft Office, but Microsoft Office already existed.

Re: Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

inigyou wrote: post #27
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft doesn’t belong in this list after they trademarked Windows, Word, Works (remember, Microsoft Works is an oxymoron) and others.

Microsoft Works was such a weird product because it was just half-assed Microsoft Office, but Microsoft Office already existed.

No. Works predated Office by 3 years at least. The first versions of Works ran under ms-dos.

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Post by GaryBluto »

em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #13
korijn wrote: post #2

For one moment there I thought Amazon had done a good thing!

Pet peeve: companies that appropriate a dictionary term for their name, e.g. Apple, Google (& Alphabet), Amazon, Oracle. It's really not too hard to create a new name for your company, e.g. Microsoft, Facebook and Nvidia.

If you count Google as an appropriation of Googol, surely Nvidia appropriates Invidia?
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