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...birds. No really they are, just when I think the jargon cant become anymore incomprehensable. This little gem to explain birds eat the seed, birds s*** the seed nature, grows the seed and plants spread.


 
Posted : 06/08/2009 10:21 pm
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Even Clarkson couldnt come out with something like that.


 
Posted : 06/08/2009 10:26 pm
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on the other side of the coin, a company I used to work for installed and maintained fibre optic cabling.
The cool tool used to test fibre cabling was called an [b]optical time domain reflectometer[/b] How cool a bit of jargon is that?


 
Posted : 06/08/2009 10:44 pm
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Jargon? My 4th year project was modifying the uni [b]Laser Speckle Interferometrer[/b]. How's that for impenetrable?


 
Posted : 06/08/2009 11:19 pm
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Other seed dispersal vectors are available. Wind, animal fur etc.


 
Posted : 06/08/2009 11:40 pm
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willy waving ?


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 7:21 am
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Wrong sort of seed I think, but I guess willy waving could count.


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 8:11 am
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Even Clarkson couldnt come out with something like that.

That's right, he hates Vectras.


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 9:10 am
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optical time domain reflectometer

is that a mirror?


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 10:03 am
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This is what I dredged up on a google search on Gauss fields, makes the management speak I have to suffer here seem very sensible

The mechanism of gravitational baryogenesis, based on the CPT-violating gravitational interaction between the derivative of the Ricci scalar curvature and the baryon-number current, is investigated in the context of the Gauss-Bonnet braneworld cosmology. We study the constraints on the fundamental five-dimensional gravity scale, the effective scale of B-violation and the decoupling temperature, for the above mechanism to generate an acceptable baryon asymmetry during the radiation-dominated era. The scenario of gravitational leptogenesis, where the lepton-number violating interactions are associated with the neutrino mass seesaw operator, is also considered


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 10:51 am
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LOL, nice one Zarquon..

If I was in a band I would call it "Neutrino Mass Seesaw Operator"


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 11:03 am
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@zarquon ... the what of the what based on the where ....:-]


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 11:31 am
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At work I regularly use a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID for short) which is basically a very very sensitive magnetic field detector.


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 12:07 pm
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[url= http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5125780462773187994 ] retro encabulator[/url]


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 12:19 pm
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All of the above seem like fairly reasonable terminology. Seed dispersal vectors do not have to be birds, they just are in many cases.


 
Posted : 07/08/2009 1:37 pm