28 Mar
2005
28 Mar
'05
8:36 p.m.
Nobody got
PS, "square" tree rings: Replace one side of a square with a semicircle to make a figure with two corners and three straight sides. Near me is a large, sawn-off tree stump whose outer rings are routinely round, but about halfway in gradually deform to the aforementioned shape, with sides quite straight and corners quite sharp. Explain.
Near the ground the tree originally had a nearly horizontal branch the same thickness as the trunk. When both were about 6 in. thick, the branch was cut off nearly vertically, fairly near the trunk, which continued thicken to over 2 ft, swallowing the stub of the branch. The horizontal section happens to pass right through the traces of the stub. --rwg paternalistic antiparticles