12-01-2017, 04:07 PM
Quote:The cold war.
The fact that it could happen that a nuke war, would destroy the earth is so strong, that this ended the cold war.
There was no nuclear war, but the fact that the threat is real made us realize that some day it easily could go wrong.
The cold war ended not because of anyone's concerns about the destruction of the earth, but due to the collapse of the USSR. When one of the counterparties collapses, there's no need for war anymore. And as contradictions between states become more tense in these days, we are sadly closer to nuclear war now than we were 30 years ago.
In fact, there was a nuclear war in 1945, when the US dropped nukes on Japanese.
But that's all offtopic.
No success in identification of plants may indeed be explained by that they are not meant to represent real plants. But it as well may be explained by that they do represent real plants, but in an uncommon way. So the problem has been with the methodology, with approach, rather than with the plants themselves. Why do you consider the former explanation, but do not consider the latter?