Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:54:59 -0700 From: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> To: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@toy.chip-web.com> Cc: "Hentschel, Thomas" <Thomas.Hentschel@Novellus.Com>, "'Bill Fumerola'" <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: plants and electricity [WAS: reboot by itself??!!] Message-ID: <53908.924908099@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@toy.chip-web.com> of "Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:37:20 PDT." <4.1.19990423153204.00bf7e00@mail-r>
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:37:20 PDT, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > >This is getting very off topic, but, in the pursuit of truth... Yeah, but it's always interesting. :-) >It's a known fact that trees near power lines grow faster than trees which >aren't. It's also a known fact that trees, shrubbery, and undergrowth near power-lines are regularly pruned and managed by the electric department to keep the right-of-ways clear for maintainence and repair, and also to keep it relatively safe from fire. This tends to promote plant growth by wiping out the competition for resources (light, water, minerals). Think of power-line areas as long skinny not-well-sculpted gardens. >Also, winning Science Fair project in my area was an experiment with plants >and electromagnetic fields. The plants were all kept in a green house under >the same conditions. The experiment was conducted by some 4.0+ GPA A.P. >Biology students. I'd like to see a proper double-blind replication of the experiment before I'd trust the data. I suspect the 4.0+ GPA students didn't go quite this far with their project. :-) Also, if the appartus wasn't well grounded, it's possible that leaking current warmed the soil near the plants slightly. Finally, they'd have to run their experiment over many many generations to see a pattern of extra mutations. I didn't think legumes grew that fast for a Science Fair project, but I suppose it could have been a longer multi-year project. Still, I'd like to see a pointer to the details of their experimental setup. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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