[HN Gopher] For insects, the Amazon's canopy contains a dazzling...
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       For insects, the Amazon's canopy contains a dazzling multiverse
        
       Author : bryanrasmussen
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2022-03-05 14:14 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | TedShiller wrote:
       | is Amazon Canopy a new AWS feature?
        
         | tasha0663 wrote:
         | You've been to the cloud - come down to the canopy.
         | 
         | Canopy Multiverse, from Amazon.
        
       | smolder wrote:
       | This is a _terrible_ use of the word multiverse. Perhaps it 's
       | for SEO reasons? "Multiverse" is a bit of a hot word lately.
       | 
       | That might be a good topic for a book: how search optimization
       | effects language.
        
         | bryanrasmussen wrote:
         | title of the book: You Won't Believe How SEO Effects The Way We
         | Speak And Think!
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | qiskit wrote:
         | Even worse, Amazon the company is so economically/culturally
         | dominant that I immediately thought of Amazon the company
         | rather than the most important rainforest on earth. I almost
         | wish we could force amazon the company to change its name.
        
           | Sporktacular wrote:
           | I've wondered about this too. It like the company doesn't
           | even pay any attention to the connection with the actual
           | Amazon. If it put 10% of its annual profits into it it could
           | literally save the forest. Imagine that, the symbolism, the
           | credibility it would gain.
        
             | labster wrote:
             | Don't they have an incentive to destroy the rainforest in
             | order to protect their trademark?
        
           | tasha0663 wrote:
           | _Killer Bug Revealed in Amazon Top Layer Environment_
        
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       | coldcode wrote:
       | Sadly the Amazon is slowly being destroyed. How many species will
       | vanish before anyone even knows they went away. How many of them
       | will turn out to be important but we will only see the after
       | effects.
       | 
       | I wonder if the current rate of destruction > renewal and what
       | the rate is.
        
         | roughly wrote:
         | What's crazy about this is that we're simultaneously
         | discovering just how diverse and potentially useful that
         | biodiversity is - the field of Metagenomics, which started in
         | the early 2000s, is effectively the practice of taking
         | environmental samples and just sequencing every bit of DNA that
         | can be extracted. It's one of the most interesting and
         | promising areas of research in biotech right now, and it's
         | enormously increasing the library of enzymes and interesting
         | chemistry we potentially have access to. At this point, it
         | feels like a dead sprint to gather and sample as much biomass
         | as we can before it gets sold off and turned "more economically
         | useful land."
        
       | fractallyte wrote:
       | This is a really great book from an ardent canopy explorer:
       | https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/bio...
        
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