I always like the theory that the entire Starfleet is just a relief valve for people who can't be satisfied in a post scarcity utopia
They could stay on Earth and cause problems, or they can boldly go far the fuck away from an ideal society.
A high turnover of senior leadership due to stupid risks means that there's room for promotion and ambitious people stay in the fleet.
Otherwise they'd return to Earth and fuck up society.
Historically, every society needs some kind of relief valve like this or domestic issues develop. Once it's an entire world government, they need that relief valve to vent off planet. And that's what Starfleet is.
Probably even be enough to have one inside on the windowsill.
Rodents have an insane sense of smell, and they hate peppermint because the smell is so strong. So it would probably be enough to keep them from going in there.
If it gets enough light/sun that plants grow, put a peppermint plant out there.
Rodents hate the smell.
If nothing grows there. You could spray peppermint every month, or hook up some kind of rope/ladder for them to get out. If you go the "escape route" way tho, they're gonna live in there having babies and you won't be able to open the window or they get into the building.
Might be better to put a finer mesh over the chicken wire.
You can circulate the air if you want to balance it out, but the basement is going to get colder again.
If you're talking about saving energy:
At about 3pm circulate the air. That's a little before your AC is going to start experiencing it's highest workload.
At around 6pm or when ever, stop.
Try it for a couple of days with just a fan. If it's a noticeable difference and you like it, you can get a vent installed that pushes up from the basement, and another somewhere else that just goes straight to the basement. You can put the fan/blower on a timer. I'd recommend one of those "smart plug" things, they work as a timer and you can also controll locally from your phone.
But if you're circulating air 24/7, it's just making your AC cool even more air.
So you just want to use it to dump a bunch of cold air when you need it most, and then let it naturally cool down the rest of the nigh/day.
Whether or not this adds up to more than negligible benefits for energy use...
I have zero idea.
But it's essentially just an inefficient heat pump. The theory behind it is sound.
It's one of those things where Republicans put people like Betsy Davros in charge, then moderates want us to clap for bread crumbs
Like, a big chunk of loan forgiveness so far, is people that qualified for PSLF, but couldn't get it because the loan servicers were in charge of it, and intentionally incompetent.
So now the feds are paying the inflated balances with interest.
We need to talk about principals forgiven, not amounts after 20 years of interest.
Sure, what we're doing now is better than nothing, that doesn't mean it's enough though.
This problem is new and growing exponentially. We can't just always be reactive, we need to be proactive especially in situations with our of control interest.
But they forgot that life finds a way and the hybrids wouldn't just stay where they put them.
They not only outcompete European hives, they'll straight up raid and destroy other hives stealing their young.
Because their African half evolved in a resource scarce environment. If they run across other bees they view it as a direct threat on their resources. Pretty sure it also causes them to establish new hives much further away than European bees. Which is why they keep spreading so fast.
I'm just glad no one's tried to crossbreed honey badgers with wolves to combat the hybrid bees yet.
A young female when given royal jelly triggers it becoming a queen and reproductive organs instead of a stinger.
The males are drones. They have male reproductive organs instead of stingers, and they just hang out and try to bone the queen.
But the worker bees are the ones that actually, you know, do the work.
So that's why European bees won't "swarm" someone and all sting them. You get a few warning shots and a chance to retreat, just moving away is enough for it to stop.
Meanwhile, African bees had to deal with shit like honey badgers. And as we're all aware, the honey badger gives very little fucks about anything.
So they don't half ass defense, they send out a shit ton of bees that won't stop until the threat is chased away and keeps running away. If they didn't the honey badger wouldnt even notice.
Then some genius decided to cross breed the species, and we get "Africanized killer bee" that treat everything they come across as a honey badger.
When the stinger gets pulled out of the bee, the sac with the venom comes out too, still attached to the singer
Attempts to remove it injects more venom.
The life of the bee is worth less than the increased deterrent to animals attacking the hive.
The life of a handful of bees really isn't worth much at all to the hive. So even when there's no longer giant ass bears going after hives, there's not a lot of pressure for the bee to lose the barb.
Edit:
It's also important to remember that evolution isn't just competing against predators/prey. It's competing against competitors too.
If one hive of bees has barbs and worse stings than the one next to it, the one without barbs is gonna get attacked.
So the barbs don't have to be enough to convince predators that honey is never worth the sting, just that this honey is more painful to get than that honey.
Overtime the less painful honey may be pushed out of the local ecosystem. At which point it's just barbed bees, and the cycle might start over again with another way stings are more painful.
The mom leaves them alone for like 12-18 hours a day, but it will come back.
Too many people think if it's alone for an hour it needs saved.
The mom leaves the fawns alone for so long, because if they're walking around they're a liability. It won't be up and moving till it's off milk and learning to forage.
The intensity and the wavelength of light influence entrainment.[2] Dim light can affect entrainment relative to darkness.[15] Brighter light is more effective than dim light.[12] In humans, a lower intensity short wavelength (blue/violet) light appears to be equally effective as a higher intensity of white light.[11]