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VoiceOfRa comments on California Drought thread - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: SanguineEmpiricist 07 May 2015 06:44PM

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 09 May 2015 01:34:31AM 0 points [-]

Why is it some Europeans have a hard time imagining that not every place has the same climate as Europe?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 09 May 2015 05:50:46PM 3 points [-]

Because they're human, and humans have a hard time imagining how very different conditions can be.

I know someone who had a hard time raising basil, which mystified me. What could possibly be hard about raising basil? You put it in a pot on a windowsill and water it when it's looking a little limp and it grows.

My friend was living in Wales. Basil needs more sunlight than occurs naturally there.

Left to myself, I never would have believed that water boils at different temperatures in different places. It sounds like a practical joke, but there's good physics behind.