It's kind of ironic you can't figure out what they do after buying 9000 trees.
They plant.
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Apple Park's Senior Arborist Recalls Meeting Steve Jobs, Sourcing 9K Trees Over 7 Years
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They plant.
Nice human interest story. Everybody go hug a tree today.
Love this story... Love that Job's brought this guy out of obscurity to do something wonderful and here he is.
Probably because Macintosh is not actually the name of a variety of apples. The computer name was a deliberate misspelling of McIntosh, the real name of the apple.
I dont know about there being more to life than pizza
What i do know is that climate change won't turn most of California into a desert, it already is a desert. Even agriculture in Californis is heavily reliant on irragation.
This is just one reason why i have no faith in people that constantly invoke climate change when trying to explain their behavior. Most of the time the facts get in the way of their arguements.
Only a small part of California is desert. But don't allow facts to get in the way.
For the most part ive given up on TV except for movies via DVDs. Life can be far more interesting with the box turned off.
I highly reccomend reading to enlighten your mind and travel to bring balance to what you read. Oh don't travel by plane rather by foot, bicycle or car. More so travel randomly without purpose.
There are many perspectives out there and sometimes their discoveries can amaze you. One personal example is getting off the beaten path visiting the Curtis Museum in up state NY. Suddenly everything you thought you knew about the development of the airplane comes into question.
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Baloney! Relative to many parts of the country, most of California is in fact a desert, if not desert certainly very arid. As you say don't let the facts get in your way.
By the way I've spent enough time in the silicon valley to understand the climate there. Frankly the climate does change as you move north of the bay but lets be honest here the silicon valley is pretty dry most of the year.
You are, in fact, completely wrong. Desert is defined thing, not a relative thing.
California_map_of_Köppen_climate_classification.svg
Ironic that you should be accusing others of not allowing facts to get in the way of opinions when that is precisely what you are doing.
Love that picture of the campus in the article. Very dramatic.
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Has anyone ever held one of those? Looks pretty cuddly.
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Nice human interest story. Everybody go hug a tree today.
Has anyone ever held one of those? Looks pretty cuddly.
Yes... they... are... pret...ty... cute.
/smiles slowly Zootopia style
But you probably wouldn't want to hold one. They have an ecosystem of moths and algae growing in their fur.
No. The south east is. Most is not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California#/media/File:CA_koppen.svg
The Silicon Valley is not arid.
As a resident of SoCal I agree. I visited OH many years ago and was SHOCKED everything was green not brown. I have been all over SoCal and MidCal and except for irrigated farms and landscaping we do indeed live in a desert. Do not confuse that with dessert. Eat that first.
They could only buy younger trees and care for them until they become old trees in time.
Neither a desert nor a dessert. Climate zones have accepted definitions. Most of California is in the Mediterranean climate zone, along with southern France and Italy. Nobody calls those places deserts (because they aren't).
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Well yes. The reason the misspelling was chosen was to avoid the previous trademark. It didn't work. Apple ended up having to buy it.
Just found out last weekend that the Apple store in Union Square has trees upstairs. IDK how I missed it last time, unless they're new. Pretty cool.
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Hmm, actually we got a huge one for free because someone had to rip it out and wanted to send it to a new home. But that was an unusual case since it was a palm tree, which can be transported.
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Yeah, and I love that part. Joshua Tree is really beautiful.
I'm not sure how observing that [southern] California is already desert somehow undoes climate change evidence. So's the Sahara and the Gobi. So what?
But your pizza comment gave me a laugh.
Lovely article. Could've done with a few or more photos of the trees themselves though.
Joshua Tree, that's in a desert. So are Palm Springs, Barstow, and Death Valley. Most the rest of the state, not in a desert.
If the common perception on this forum about when products are designed also applied to trees, then the trees were only selected the day prior to going in and the meeting with Jobs never happened.