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About arthurdillo

48 year, male

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Description:
Gardener - landscaper - improving on the poor imagination of mother nature !!.
Ex- many things - fondness for music, hiking in the wild places, peace and calm. Satisfaction comes from doing something well, growing something from a seed of cutting watching it bloom. Deppression comes from to much of modern life...

Chernobyl - a disaster

arthurdillo | the 12-02-2009 at 18:36 | 1 comment

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 event on the... Read more

Chernobyl - The Wild Life

arthurdillo | the 12-02-2009 at 18:33 | 1 comment

There has been an ongoing scientific debate about the extent that flora and fauna of the zone were affected by the radioactive contamination that followed the accident. No scientifically documented cases of mutant deformity in animals of th... Read more

The Zone of Alienation

arthurdillo | the 12-02-2009 at 18:31 | 1 comment

The Zone of Alienation, which is variously referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Exclusion Zone, The Fourth Zone, or simply The Zone is the 30 km/19 mi exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor ... Read more

Man Vs 5000 years of history

arthurdillo | the 12-02-2009 at 18:27 | 1 comment

Donald R. Currey was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying the climate dynamics of the Little Ice Age using dendrochronology techniques. In 1963 he became aware of the bristlecone populations in the ... Read more

Prometheus

arthurdillo | the 12-02-2009 at 18:23 | 1 comment

Prometheus (aka WPN-114) was the nickname given to the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, USA. The tree, which was at least 4862 y... Read more

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