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It's not the same as Mimosa or Dionaea or leaf stoma, which move via ion channels, but it is changing position in three dimensional space over time. Technically speaking, though even nastic movements and stomatal movement only really move in the same way that a balloon moves when you let all the water out, because plants don't have a solid framework to brace for movement. Ions are pumped through channels to change the osmotic balance, causing the water to passively move out of the cell.
A less problematic praxis would probably be something like tracking disseminules or germination in a barren field. Has anyone ever conducted a task over a period of several years?
I've seen a similar comic, but it was a Korean comic. In it a police officer catches a young man slipping his hands into people's pockets. He's about to arrest him, when he finds out that he slipped notes into their pockets reading that they are special and wonderful people. He then let's the young man go.
And then the people realize that all their money is missing as well.
Not the same...
I wouldn't want to do anything remotely suspicious in person near any major communications towers, military facilities, major landmarks or government buildings. Bullets hurt. :(
Only in Africa though, according to the experts.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (on a upcoming related note)
There is no such thing as experts. An expert is merely a prop created by marketers to try to sell something. Occasionally it's just a person with too large an ego. Anyone who claims to be an expert, says you should not get a second opinion, or attacks you for questioning them in any way, is probably a crank.
Real science is like what Winston Churchill said about knowledge; to paraphrase, the more we know, the more there is to know. But rather than it being discouraging, it merely inspires us.
"Experts" suck.
A wise man once said that he liked pigs; dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs, they treat us as equals.
And that certainly deserves at least a pancake.
They call durian the king of fruit, but it's spiky, heavy, periodically kills people when it drops and is hard to open. One might be fooled that the effort it takes to obtain one will somehow be rewarded. But opening one up only reveals a foul stench like rotten eggs or a natural gas leak. And eating one is even worse. It's like motor oil and rotten butter had some sort of cruel disfigured baby, and they decided to baptize it in mayonnaise.
I love all sorts of food that other people consider gross or weird. Sea urchin ovaries, fertilized duck embryos and fermented sticky soybeans. But durian goes beyond having unconventional flavor to being putrid...
Hence the hate. :D
If the flag is small, won't it be difficult to document?
I was thinking, perhaps creating some sort of remote control device, and use as a flag, ripstop cloth with al small neodymium magnet sewn into it. Fly it high over Sutro Tower, and drop several. I'm assuming Sutro Tower is made out of ferromagnetic metal here, and given the incredible strength of neodymium magnets at least one will stick to the top, and the flag will fly.
However, I have no idea what effect incredibly strong magnets will have on the signaling on the tower. And neodymium magnets are dangerous. They can crush fingers, and handling them you, or the poor workers who will have to remove them may be injured. Maybe attach a warning label to the flag?
Unless you can somehow remain anonymous for this, I can see the sublime joy of accomplishment, followed by prison. Yeah...so...
Prank caller! Prank caller!
I'd love to do this. But I have, like, a job. And taking more than two weeks of leave requires approval by high up types. And I don't think, "going on Odyssey" would qualify for the seal of approval. This makes me sad, and hate my job right now.