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Mysterious 'fairy circles' confound science | |
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| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 1149868 Germany05/22/2014 03:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sorry. Nope. Last Edited by Face Palmer on 05/22/2014 03:33 AM "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
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| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 1149868 Germany05/22/2014 03:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  got yaLast Edited by Face Palmer on 05/22/2014 03:35 AM "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
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| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 58339145 Germany05/22/2014 03:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I wonder what lead you to this question? The fairy tales in the title? "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 58329502  United States05/22/2014 03:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You don't like fairies? Too much cowbell? Wallows? What was wallowing, then.... [link to www.google.com] and in Johnson's pasture. WALLOW 1: Size 22 by 32 feet, oval; depth 12 inches; 8. per cent so11 moisture (June 20); 6.5 per cent humus. Surface soil gray sandy loam merging into sandy' clay at 4 inches, which in tum merges into red gummy clay at 7 inches. The vegetation of the floor of this wallow Is sharply delimited from that of the surrounding prairie. It is covered with .. rather heavy stand of a sedge (Eleoch4ri8). with an occasional plant of Joint weed (PolJ/gonum c!ougla8ti> and!halry running water tern (MarBileG fjt,t'ta>. A sedge (StenophVUus) was peculiar to the prairie rim of the wallow |
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| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 1149868 Germany05/22/2014 03:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | yeah it was the fairy...I didn't think so from the beginning.Would not made a difference anyway.Ya,I'm A guy that like's girls. Well, its in the article's title. Thats where I got it from. "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
| Pooch User ID: 55273136 Canada05/22/2014 03:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You don't like fairies? Too much cowbell? Wallows? What was wallowing, then.... [link to www.google.com] and in Johnson's pasture. WALLOW 1: Size 22 by 32 feet, oval; depth 12 inches; 8. per cent so11 moisture (June 20); 6.5 per cent humus. Surface soil gray sandy loam merging into sandy' clay at 4 inches, which in tum merges into red gummy clay at 7 inches. The vegetation of the floor of this wallow Is sharply delimited from that of the surrounding prairie. It is covered with .. rather heavy stand of a sedge (Eleoch4ri8). with an occasional plant of Joint weed (PolJ/gonum c!ougla8ti> and!halry running water tern (MarBileG fjt,t'ta>. A sedge (StenophVUus) was peculiar to the prairie rim of the wallow |
| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 58339145 Germany05/22/2014 03:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It must be something in the ground, I'd say. Never heard of any animal munching circles into the grass. "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
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| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 58339145 Germany05/22/2014 04:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It must be something in the ground, I'd say. Never heard of any animal munching circles into the grass. Goats can munch lots..you would be surprised. They munch everything. I have seen an entire hedgerow disappear. But they don't eat circles. "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
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| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 1149868 Germany05/22/2014 05:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The circles should have at least some small stuff growing at the outside. But it looks like its cut out. "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 58329502 United States05/22/2014 05:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NC's barren areas have their own song: [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] The Devil's Tramping Ground is a camping spot located in a forest near the Harper's Crossroads area near Bennett, North Carolina. It has been the subject of persistent local legends and lore, which frequently allege that the Devil "tramps" and haunts a barren circle of ground in which nothing is supposed to grow [link to www.northcarolinaghosts.com] The Devil's Tramping Ground is a mysterious, perfectly round and absolutely barren circle about forty feet in diameter in the pine woods of Chatham County. Not a tree, not flower, no lowly weed, not even a single blade of grass will grow in the limits of the circle. Seed sowed there refuses to sprout. Any vegetation transplanted there will wither and die. |
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| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 1149868 Germany05/22/2014 05:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
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| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 1149868 Germany05/22/2014 08:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
| eekers Dreamer of Dreams User ID: 38137469 United States05/22/2014 08:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to i.chzbgr.com (secure)] "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot |
| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 58339145 Germany05/22/2014 08:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ewww!! "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 9720172 United States05/23/2014 06:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not termites, not salt...is it the devil? Studies done by scientists shows that these circles are under continuous development, with an estimated life-span of 30 to 60 years. They grow, ranging from 2 to 12 meters in diameter,[6] where they mature and "die", filled in by invasive grasses.[7] [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
| Face Palmer (OP) User ID: 1149868 Germany05/26/2014 04:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For several decades scientists have been trying to come up with an explanation for the formation of the enigmatic, vegetation-free circles frequently found in certain African grassland regions. Now researchers have tested different prevailing hypotheses as to their respective plausibility. For the first time they have carried out a detailed analysis of the spatial distribution of these fairy circles – and discovered a remarkably regular and spatially comprehensive homogenous distribution pattern. This may best be explained by way of reference to local resource-competition for water among plants and vegetation, the team now reports in the scientific journal Ecography. [link to www.ufz.de] "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
For some reason I sense a lie here.