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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 5/16/2007
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Hey! Thanks for letting me know - I didn´t even notice:-)
Yellow snow- we have lots of that in the garden during winter*LOL* King Henry rules his territory well:-)
Take care and thanks for commenting, Newfman John
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j esford
{K:13518} 5/16/2007
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(From the thumbnail I saw....... yellow snow (?)) Hey mermaid, you're front page news again!!!
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/11/2006
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Haha, your last sentence contained something very important. That similarity is a very vague thing, which perhaps depends on perception, i.e. sometimes we see patterns where there are none. :-)
But nonetheless the mechanism of such pattern construction in nature seems to be lying very near the elementary processes which are simple yet able to create diversity and complexity.
Take care,
Nick
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 10/11/2006
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No no, obviously it doesn´t work that way, but there must be some kind of chemistry in certain environments that make these forms look so similar unless of course it´s just our eyes deceiving us for reasons that I can´t explain!:-)
Best wishes,
Annemette
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 10/11/2006
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Thanks for your support:)
Best wishes,
Annemette
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/10/2006
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One of the assumptions that were made to at least have some kind of understanding for this phenomenon was indeed that the soil contained something that is responsible for this. But it doesn't seem to hold.
Of course a tree won't change its shape if you plant it somewhere else, but it is the mechanism of evolution over thousends of years that is beeing searched for, and that must have to contain some interdependence between the crystals and the plants. We can only see the results of a very long time of evolution and when we see such resemblances, we assume that it is too much for simple coincidence.
Best wishes,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/10/2006
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Ouch! So the pickle was really not meant as a spice? Why didn't they write it on the wrap? ;-)
Take care Doyle,
Nick
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 10/10/2006
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Oh I knew that dendron means tree in Greek. Archaeologists use dendronchronology when finding out what time an old drakkar or grave and such was built.:-) Fascinating.
Yes, I see whay you mean. I´ve seen such patterns before, but I´ve never considered that they looked like the vegetation in the surrounding area.
If that is the case then these crystals and the vegetation must be influenced by something in the soil??
Will they really change pattern if being in another part of the world or do they usually look the same whereas the vegetation changes?
Best wishes,
Annemette
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 10/9/2006
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Well, Nick and his Dendrites notwithstanding . . . and all due respect to the Professor who is a friend of mine . . . but it looks like a sandwich somebody bit and . . . uhhhh . . . you gonna eat that pickle??? LoL!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/8/2006
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Oops, I forgot the "almost QED" :-D
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/8/2006
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Yes, it is. It is not always the case, but quite often you can find dendritic structures in minerals in the earth, that resemble very very closely the lookings of the trees that grow there. The attached image is not an image with organic fossiles of plants and trees, but with minerals, inorganic crystalls that grow similarly to plants in the regions where they were found.
The greek word "dendron" means simply "tree", and a "denrite" is something small and tree-like! Old good mathematicians may have a bit too much fantasy seing patterns where there are none but in this case the similarity can't be denied. :-)
Go out, take a look! Nature speaks mathematics.
Nick
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 10/8/2006
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Is that really so?? That minerals, trees, bushes and the likes in a certain area have the same structure?? I´ve never noticed that. I must look out for that!
Take care,
Annemette
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 10/8/2006
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marveslous abstract.stunning tones. wonderful composition. outstanding.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/8/2006
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Natural shapes often look similar. They are produced by the same small set of rules. For example the dendrites of minerals in nature often look like the the plants and trees that grow in the area. This gives photographers an additional way to simulate the shape of something by shooting photos of something else.
Not to speak about the possibility to form mountains out of bread - I tried that, it worked! And then I ate the mountain ;-)
Best wishes,
Nick
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