small furry creature from Alpha Centauri's Comments
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..
It is all about cash. Having a customer so dependent on your product as smokers are dependent on nicotine... you have a clear long time customer giving you a stable income over a long time. E-cigs are just for driving youngsters into a nicotine dependency.. and then the e-cigs may be supplemented by the always available tabacco sticks that still work even if you are out of fluid or if your battery is emty or if your e-cig got broken.,..
I prefer the topological approach, where a hole is a clearance boring and a blind hole is not considered a hole at all. Blind holes are the worst, cause it is difficult to decide when a slight concavity ends and when it starts to be considered a blind hole.
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