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I've never done it but apparently if you graft branches of different varieties on one tree, you can produce a number of different varieties of apples on one tree. This would be especially good if you could get some of the tastiest heirloom varieties.

That's definitely a thing you can do!

We haven't been doing that for now. The success rate doing so is somewhat less than directly grafting the whole top of the tree onto rootstock, for a few reasons. Since our primary goal is preservation and a lot of these trees have zero clones and could be wiped out by wildfire on any given year, our first priority is to get clones of every tree.


If they can't display graphics they're not really GPU's at all. Maybe someone will think of a use for them. With an SXM-to-PCIe adapter board.


I don't know if it was actually a startup but there was once some idea of Wikipedia starting a search engine based on serving the customer rather than serving ads. I thought it was a great idea.


Like kagi.com?


Keep in mind that we are in an interglacial period, between ice ages. And no one knows when the next ice age will begin.


I think you massively underestimate the current situation. See “Past concentration“ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_at... I think it’s save to assume that the cycle of hotter and cooler periods may has already been severely altered. Sure, no one knows, but...


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