Is this a baby Joshua Tree? Because the tree which featured in the photos on the U2 album looked bigger and different. It had a distinctive trunk, and branches.
Sroyon | 14 May 2009 - 07:46 PDT
Looks like a koosh ball!
Shadows | 14 May 2009 - 08:05 PDT
| It's still on the small side, 130 cm tall. (It was about 90 cm tall when transplanted 11 years ago.) They can grow for a while before they branch. |  |
Tommy | 14 May 2009 - 09:58 PDT
Whose a Joshua tree named after? And, its funny you say math is simple the day after I watched the BBC documentary on Fermat's Last Theoram.
Rahul | 14 May 2009 - 12:55 PDT
Legend has it that Mormons named it after the Joshua of Old Testament fame.
The axioms of math are simple. The difficulty with Fermat's Last Theorem wasn't in disagreements over what an integer is, or what addition means, and so on. As long as there's a USA, there will probably be disagreement about what the tenth amendment means.
Tommy | 14 May 2009 - 15:54 PDT
To add on: The name Joshua tree was given by a group of Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century. The tree's unique shape reminded them of a Biblical story in which Joshua reaches his hands up to the sky in prayer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_brevifolia
Sroyon | 14 May 2009 - 21:00 PDT
The axioms in math are simple only because the mathematical community have decided they are axioms. When we ask what it "really means" to add or whether numbers actually "exist" things get more complicated.
Rahul | 15 May 2009 - 12:27 PDT