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Shevek said:
Experts generally assume that they are smarter than a handyman about everything, but their repairs are appalling. I saw a copy of the Apollo moon buggy, and any racing bike mechanic could have made it a lot lighter. In general, NASA designs vehicles without reference to Earthly experience. Car guys must quit in frustration.
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I always said that if the task at hand was to dig a ditch on the moon, it would serve them better to ask a ditch digger how to do it instead of a book smart person who has no experience in that matter.
 
Shevek said:
In general, NASA designs vehicles without reference to Earthly experience. Car guys must quit in frustration.
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This is the 2016 version of their Mars Rover, I think the designers liked the Batman movie.

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Shevek said:
Experts generally assume that they are smarter than a handyman about everything
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There's a cognitive bias (which I can't be bothered to look up the name of) whereby experts tend to believe that if they're good at one thing, they must be good at most other things that may intersect their area of expertise!

I tell them to look up Dunning-Kruger, they return 10 seconds later to say they know all about it now!
(geddit? 😏)
 
Did you know: Selfies go back to the Cretaceous period...
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Outdated said:
I'm not a big fan of it myself. We never get snow in Adelaide of course but it's been pretty cold, down to 2 degrees a couple of nights. I expect to get a big power bill next quarter.
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Two degrees is going to ruin the mango crop.

All my photos of great snowfall are on film and hidden among the several large boxes I have of old photos.
 
Outdated said:
Fortunately we've had enough wind and rain with it that we haven't had a frost, that's a farmer's dread. The cold is good for some things though, we should have a good almond crop this year.
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Cold is good for many fruits, peaches, most nuts (macadamia an exception), apples, pears, cherries. I can’t grow any of those,
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
Cold is good for many fruits, peaches, most nuts (macadamia an exception), apples, pears, cherries. I can’t grow any of those,
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I saw lots of funny fails up the top end with people trying to grow southern fruits and vegetables. The funniest was always cauliflower, it grows spectacularly but doesn't flower, lots of big green leaves and nothing else. And anyone that tries to grow cabbages gets their yard swarmed by insects that will eat everything else too.
 
Outdated said:
I saw lots of funny fails up the top end with people trying to grow southern fruits and vegetables. The funniest was always cauliflower, it grows spectacularly but doesn't flower, lots of big green leaves and nothing else. And anyone that tries to grow cabbages gets their yard swarmed by insects that will eat everything else too.
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I don’t know what that means. ‘Fails at the top end.’

But agreed that trying to grow plants outside of their temperature and light ranges is frequently doomed.
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
I don’t know what that means. ‘Fails at the top end.’
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The tropics in Australia is often called The Top End, it's a common phrase I'm used to using and I often forget it might confuse others. That region has a highly transient population, many people only staying for a few years. And when they move up there for the first time most people will try to grow a few things that they're familiar with regardless of local advice.

The cauliflower is always funny because they spend the first couple of months saying "See. It does grow here.". :)
 
Outdated said:
The tropics in Australia is often called The Top End, it's a common phrase I'm used to using and I often forget it might confuse others. That region has a highly transient population, many people only staying for a few years. And when they move up there for the first time most people will try to grow a few things that they're familiar with regardless of local advice.

The cauliflower is always funny because they spend the first couple of months saying "See. It does grow here.". :)
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I sort of guessed that, but it didn’t quite hang together. Also, you didn’t include the bit about being proud to grow it and it never flowers. Thank you.

People came to south Florida in the 1920s and 30s to farm and there were vast failures. In addition to the heat and bugs, there are no organic nutrients in the soil. None. I’ve had my soil tested and there is nothing there. Even after piling compost on year after year.
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
People came to south Florida in the 1920s and 30s to farm and there were vast failures. In addition to the heat and bugs, there are no organic nutrients in the soil. None. I’ve had my soil tested and there is nothing there. Even after piling compost on year after year.
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It was the same in and around Darwin, it's what you call Semi Arid Tropics. For 8 months of the year there's no rain, then in 4 months you get a couple of metres of rainfall and everything gets leached out of the soil. Lucky that soil is very porous though, imagine how much water that is if it's got nowhere to go. Cities down south get flooded if they get 50 mm of rain in a day, in Darwin you can get 150 mm in an hour.
 
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