Too bad it will take 30 years for coconut palms to grow here. I would like to grow them. I brought back some sprouting coconuts from Sanibel a couple of years ago, but they couldn't even take mid 30s temps and they all died.
Speaking of global warming, I was watching a video the other day where a guy was explaining that the sun is actually warming AND the magnetic shielding of the earth is diminishing, which is causing the earth to warm up. Of course, I don't know the validity of such claims, but the geological evidence points to the possibility that the earth's magnetic poles have reversed several times in the past. And the precursor to such a reversal would be a gradual reduction in the magnetic field as the reversal approaches. Some of this stuff might be nothing more than "doom porn" speculation, yet there might actually be some truth embedded in there somewhere. Interesting reading, nonetheless.
I would think you would have trouble keeping your huge scopes aligned if they are sitting on the ground without a firmer layer underneath them. All that weight wouldn't be distributed evenly since the ground would be variable in density. So how do you get around that problem?
Been raining like hell here and more expected later today. Even tornado watches in effect. Possibly hail as well.
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