small furry creature from Alpha Centauri's Comments
Let's unleash Alpha-Go to scrabble... I always misinterpreted scrabble as a kind of battle of vocabulary. So i am a bit disappointed hearing that expert scrabblers just memorize more or less arbitrary strings of letters...
An endless stream of new plastic, a limited global surface area, and a very high lifetime in the environment.. you will find this stuff litterally everywhere, and it will help extinct one species after another. When considering the priomary medium of transport, you know what particle size you have to look for..
In my hometown there are at least three artificial landscapes with artificial mountains, one made of debris from world war 2, one from material digged up when building subway tunnels and one is a closed landfill... and there may be even more..
I assume that the crack / hollowed out part of the tree jsut reaches down to the roots where the water can enter the void... ad that the tree just serves as a kind of pressure relief pipe..
I think the "sarco device" wins over the mechanical girlfriend hand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_device
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_kite