was driven to extinction in the 1840s by sailors who took thousands from the island for sustenance

Obligatory QI segment: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zPggB4MfPnk

Best get this stuff going and work out any issues now in order to avoid the issues that are coming down the pike.

I don't think that's being done at a commercial scale yet and i don't see it happen any time soon.

... New Life...

Dad jokes...

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I understand the viability of low to the ground farm produce (carrots, lettuce, potatoes), and to an extent hanging vegetables, but what about tall stemmed produce (wheat, corn, etc?) How viable is that in the vertical arrangement? Is it arranged like a steppe-pyramid? What about trailing vines?

Floreana's native species, Chelonoidis [REMOVED]

oh dear

I'd hang out there

Okay, this is great and all, but are we all just going to ignore the name of the isle? It sounds like something straight out of Monty Python.

"Greetings estimable sirs, I hail from the Isle of Muck"

2023?

It's the dark one

I sincerely hope it is fully wiped out! It's horrifying.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but the guinea worm starts its work in the digestive system, and typically leaves through the skin of the foot (no joke- look it up if you don't believe me).

I'm sad that Jimmy Carter won't get to see this.

He once said that he hoped that the last Guinea worm would die before he did. His nonprofit, the Carter Foundation, did incredible work in pushing forward here. He was able to negotiate a 6 month humanitarian cease fire to allow aid to high-conflict areas of South Sudan, which had one of the highest incidence rates for Guinea worm disease.

go 'head, be gone with it

Anyone remember when measles was on it's way?

The first after smallpox?

may be second human disease wiped out after smallpox