Posted on 08/26/2019 6:45:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
|Tumbleweeds might look soft and fluffy from a distance, but hit one with your car and you quickly learn how woody, spiky and mean they really are. Just look at what happened when Victorville, California, got buried beneath tumbleweeds in 2018.
A new species of giant tumbleweed is now thriving in the US. Salsola ryanii is a hybrid that grows bigger than its parent plants. It can top 6 feet (2 meters) in height, so it's not like those cute little rolling tumbleweeds you see in Western movies.
Researchers at University of California Riverside took a closer look at why this monster plant is thriving, and published a study in the journal AoB Plants.
Salsola ryannii is created from a cross of two invasive tumbleweed species. It has extra sets of its parents' chromosomes, a state know as "polyploidy." Polylploidy is common in plants. For comparison, almost all humans have just one set of chromosomes from each parent.
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He sang with The Sons of The Pioneers.
Thanks.
If I keep learning new FReep facts each day, after a few years I’ll be an educated individual.
So? What’s a few thousand non-nuclear mega-fuel-air bombs between friends? Let’s go for it.
How come only me and the goofballs around here remember badass stuff like this? And I wasn’t even an Outer Limits fan (in reruns mind you).
*It's got electrolytes, it's what your body craves.
He took over for Frank Sinatra when Sinatra left Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra.
Climate change!! Trump’s fault!!
I see a new species of tumbleweed every time I try a new stand up routine.
But what are electrolytes?!
Salt.
I thought they might show a picture of the new giant tumbleweeds.
That pic of Air Force guys cleaning up tumbleweeds in NM reminds me of what happened in my neighborhood around 1965. Except the tumbleweeds piled up higher than the eaves on our houses. They were just as big as those pictured too.
You messed up, I was quoting Private Joe Bauers. (aka - Not Sure)
Here you go:
Prior to World War II, and before his film career, Albert had toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors. On September 9, 1942, Albert enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat “V” for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November 1943, when, as the pilot of a Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Albert#Military
lol.
The stuff we are not supposed to eat because it’s bad for us, but every time they give you an IV it is mass quantities of salt water.
I have watched a video of him being asked about Tarawa. He described the scene with sadness without being maudlin.
All those young men floating in the water.
“What Plants Crave!”
It’s what they use to make Brawndo!
It’s what plants crave.
Thanks to a wet spring in central California, we have a bumper crop of tumbleweeds this year, especially along the railroad right-of-way. I look forward to the annual running of the tumbleweeds. A few years ago we had to rescue some elderly church members who lived near railroad lines from their nature-improvised weed barricades. On the other hand, sometimes here tumbleweeds are enlisted as California snowmen.
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