We often buy real trees for Christmas that are potted. We decorate and then plant them outside after Christmas is over. We still have the first tree we bought as a couple in 2009, and it’s pretty big! (Despite hubby accidentally clipping it with the snow blower on tractor one year lol).
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Yes!!! This I love 
Picture please??
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Message me if you want. Rather not get into the grim details.
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The first photo is the tree in pot. Likely 4-4.5 feet tall (1.2-1.4 metres). Middle pic is a year or two after or so; last is today next to my little guy. You can see the gap where it got chomped with blower lol
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Our trees come from Christmas tree farms. You can grow a lot of trees pretty quickly on a small piece of land. Low maintenance and organic! Start one when your kids are in kindergarten and they will help pay for college. And they compost 100% when finished.
I know farmers who pay for Christmas by loading 50 Vermont trees on a farm truck and selling them on the same street corner in NYC did $150 each, in two days time. Not a bad payback!
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I thought when you hang yourself the dens axis will break and hurting the upper spinal cord where the breathing reflex is. If that happens or is more likely to happen when you are heavy. Maybe it’s all wrong what I wrote, too.
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Thank you 
Proper hanging severs the spinal cord. Suicides are usually stragulation. I’d imagine increased weight would cut off blood flow as well as air supply. Either way, the weight of anyone’s body is enough to cut off air flow completely.
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Being wired differently doesn’t make us defective
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Bones are wet.
Read that again.
Feel the discomfort of your wet bones.
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I have a magic trick. I will make you breathe manually. Because I’ve just put your attention on manual breathing. Now you can’t stop breathing manually on command.
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As of January 2021 there were 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide - 59.5 percent of the global population. Of this total, 92.6 percent (4.32 billion) accessed the internet via mobile devices.
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This post was inspired by by @ShesGotMoxie. I really love science and how things work in nature. She got me thinking about light.
Light belongs to something called the Electromagnetic Spectrum. This involves the speed, or frequency of which radiation particles move through space. There is an incredible range of wavelengths within this spectrum that make up and contribute towards our world. Below is listed a range of them:
- Radio waves (about 1 m and longer): Radiofrequency EM radiation spans about 20,000 to 300 billion Hz. These “fly” not only around the world but deep into space.
- Microwaves (about 1 mm to 1 m): These can also penetrate into space, but they are useful in weather applications because they can also penetrate clouds.
- Infrared waves (700 nm to 1 mm): Infrared radiation, or “infrared light,” is the stuff of “night-vision” goggles and other visual-enhancement equipment.
- Visible light (400 nm to 700 nm): Light waves in the visible spectrum span a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic wave frequency and wavelength range. Your eyes, after all, are the fairly conservative product of what nature needs them to collect for everyday survival.
- Ultraviolet light (10 nm to 400 nm): Ultraviolet radiation is what causes sunburn and probably skin malignancies as well. Nevertheless, tanning beds wouldn’t exist without it.
- X-rays (about 0.01 nm to 10 nm): This higher-energy radiation is an incredible diagnostic aid in medicine, but this must be balanced against their potential to cause physical harm themselves in higher exposures.
- Gamma rays (< 0.01 nm): As you’d expect, this is very high-energy and hence potentially lethal radiation. Were it not for the Earth’s atmosphere blocking most of it, life in its current form would not have been able to get going billions of years ago. They are used to treat especially aggressive tumors.
If you want to read more about this topic, some of this information I summarized and grabbed from this site:
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Inspired by the previous post on light
The amount of energy in one Gamma Ray Burst is about the same as the amount of energy the sun will produce in its entire 10 billion year lifetime - but in a time ranging from milliseconds to hours.
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So true! With maybe a dusting of starlight in there.
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A phenomenon known as the Leidenfrost effect after German doctor Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost occurs when ice or water make contact with a surface that’s hotter than it’s boiling point. The bottom layer of the droplet that touches the hot surface evaporates, but it forms a thin cushion of vapor that temporarily protects the rest of the droplet from the extreme heat. This keeps the rest from becoming vapor and lets the droplet effectively “levitate”.
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Because of differences in gravity, a 200 pound person would only weigh 76 pounds on Mars.
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