Thousands of plants not known to exist face extinction!
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
The article says that scientists estimate the existence of up to 50 million different species of flowering plants (Though I'm not clear on how they came up with that number)... We've discovered less than 2 million.
So there are 48 million 'overwhelmingly rare' plant species out there? OK, I would imagine somone with an interest in botanical things might have noticed though.
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fat_boy wrote:
So there are 48 million 'overwhelmingly rare' plant species out there? OK, I would imagine somone with an interest in botanical things might have noticed though.
How so? They're basically saying that they calculated the number of species that SHOULD exist... Maybe it's just the number of different possible configurations of some molecular thingamajig... So the other 48 million are probably out there somewhere... Honestly, who cares? You probably just doubled the total number of views on this article by posting it here. If you think it's so stupid, why give it publicity?
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fat_boy wrote:
So there are 48 million 'overwhelmingly rare' plant species out there? OK, I would imagine somone with an interest in botanical things might have noticed though.
How so? They're basically saying that they calculated the number of species that SHOULD exist... Maybe it's just the number of different possible configurations of some molecular thingamajig... So the other 48 million are probably out there somewhere... Honestly, who cares? You probably just doubled the total number of views on this article by posting it here. If you think it's so stupid, why give it publicity?
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and yet there are those who will simply accept that, because they have some 'ologies' they must be correct. I'd love to see the science behind estimating the unknown and then multiplying it by a number designed to illicit panic amongst those that latch onto any old crap. Oh yes, there are x species now and we know that there were y species until horrid man came and eat them all so there must be y-x*y^pi*666^e left to find that might, just might, already be in danger. :mad:
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digital man wrote:
I'd love to see the science behind estimating the unknown
There you go![^] Note that the study is not designed to illicit (or, more likely, elicit ;P ) panic, but is an attempt to [estimate] how many such species there are [as] an essential step in setting conservation priorities.
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digital man wrote:
I'd love to see the science behind estimating the unknown
There you go![^] Note that the study is not designed to illicit (or, more likely, elicit ;P ) panic, but is an attempt to [estimate] how many such species there are [as] an essential step in setting conservation priorities.
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I was being a little tongue-in-cheek though it is all still just a guesstimate. ;P
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http://sify.com/news/thousands-of-undiscovered-plant-species-face-extinction-news-international-khiokeahegd.html[^] "'If we take the number of species that are currently known to be threatened and add to that those that are yet to be discovered..." Bring back the Global Windy please, at least it just made me laugh! This tortured logic actually makes me feel ill. :wtf:
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It is a statistical extrapolation of the genetic variability within flora phylums. It is also true that if you want to discover a new species of beetle you need only visit your garden.
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It is a statistical extrapolation of the genetic variability within flora phylums. It is also true that if you want to discover a new species of beetle you need only visit your garden.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
It is a statistical extrapolation of the genetic variability within flora phylums
Within as in whithin the branches emenating from any phylum or within as in between different phylums?
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http://sify.com/news/thousands-of-undiscovered-plant-species-face-extinction-news-international-khiokeahegd.html[^] "'If we take the number of species that are currently known to be threatened and add to that those that are yet to be discovered..." Bring back the Global Windy please, at least it just made me laugh! This tortured logic actually makes me feel ill. :wtf:
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The joys of statistics. You think this is bad, go read over some of the 'statistical proofs evolution is impossible'. At least this here they have some small basis to work off of other than assumptions. One of the reasons I decided to go with computing rather than the sciences, somewhere between lies, damn lies and statistics I got lost and thought I would be able to actually prove something of consequence. So I went with something that has physical components and real limitations instead.
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I was being a little tongue-in-cheek though it is all still just a guesstimate. ;P
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digital man wrote:
it is all still just a guesstimate
Oh, I agree. They go to all the trouble of building a mathematical model, and then ask experts for estimates against which to assess its performance. That is what I find funny.
Bob Emmett New Eugenicist - The weekly magazine for intelligent parenting. Published by the New World Order Press.
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The joys of statistics. You think this is bad, go read over some of the 'statistical proofs evolution is impossible'. At least this here they have some small basis to work off of other than assumptions. One of the reasons I decided to go with computing rather than the sciences, somewhere between lies, damn lies and statistics I got lost and thought I would be able to actually prove something of consequence. So I went with something that has physical components and real limitations instead.
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http://sify.com/news/thousands-of-undiscovered-plant-species-face-extinction-news-international-khiokeahegd.html[^] "'If we take the number of species that are currently known to be threatened and add to that those that are yet to be discovered..." Bring back the Global Windy please, at least it just made me laugh! This tortured logic actually makes me feel ill. :wtf:
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
If a species gets wiped out and there is nobody there to witness neither its existence nor its extinction, did this species exist at all?
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If a species gets wiped out and there is nobody there to witness neither its existence nor its extinction, did this species exist at all?
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
So deserves 5. :thumbsup:
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If a species gets wiped out and there is nobody there to witness neither its existence nor its extinction, did this species exist at all?
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)