Fun Fact

They are some really small and cute fellas, so no wonder they’re so cheap!

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Maybe Thrive will afford to fund one one day…

What would it be named? ThriveSat? DisturbSat? HexaquillSat?

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Who knows, maybe we’d just help some trying their best to get into the space industry?

The Skyrora XL rocket uses a form of kerosene made from recycled plastic called Ecosene, by the way.

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Oh, so that’s even better for it’s reputation then.

Bamboo is a grass (Poaceae Family), so Bamboo Forest is a misnomer due to a lack of trees.

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I mean, at the same time bamboo fields aren’t exactly “meadows” either…

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Maize/corn (zea mayz) is also a grass.

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It looks more reminiscent of grass in the undomesticated form.

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Some species of Bamboo are entirely Wood-y. Tall Wood-y plants makes a forest.

Bananas are entirely herbaceous. Banana trees are not trees. They are Forbs/Herbs. A large collection of tall banana plants is, weirdly enough, a grassland.

Plant classification is weird.

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That’s why it took so long to make the full terran plant biome list…

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tree is not a taxonomic category! I mean i think there’s some clade call true trees or whatever, but when you see a large plant with a trunk you think tree, regardless of what it descended from. obviously a bamboo lacks a trunk, but so do a lot of things people call trees

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Maybe bamboo is BOTH grass AND tree?

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There is actually a genus of wood-y stemmed plants (shrubs/trees) that effectively grow grass instead of branches.

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I suppose a transistion from being stemmed to being a grass won’t be likely ingame…

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Grass has a stem. Also, if I understand right, plants went from herbaceous to wood-y back to herbaceous.

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So this is a secondary transistion from wood-y to herbaceous, right?

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This particular group, I am not sure.

But early land plants were seedless herbaceous. Then there were seedless wood-y plants. Then wood-y plants developed seeds. Then seed plants became herbaceous.

This could well be a surviving transitionary genus. I am not sure.

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You mean of which transistion? Primordial-herbaceous to wood-y?

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