Message from @Maxthx

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2019-03-29 02:42:55 UTC  

they eat a lot, shit a whooole bunch, and trample giant areas, they are quite literally destructive

2019-03-29 02:44:12 UTC  

so the cats are killing the native animals/birds, and the pigs are destroying the local plant life

2019-03-29 02:44:20 UTC  

double whammy

2019-03-29 02:45:30 UTC  

wild pigs can eat anywhere from 5 to 10 pounds of food in a day

2019-03-29 02:45:44 UTC  

thats a lot of biomass on an island

2019-03-29 02:46:40 UTC  

Would their excrement not also be useful for fertilizer to help the recovery of that biomass?

2019-03-29 02:48:06 UTC  

sort of, its a common misconception that all poop is good 😛

2019-03-29 02:48:12 UTC  

its really a question of how much

2019-03-29 02:48:22 UTC  

some poop is good, a lot of poop is toxic

2019-03-29 02:49:00 UTC  

too much of a good thing I suppose you could call it

2019-03-29 02:50:02 UTC  

plus if the pigs eliminate too much of the ground cover foliage the island is more susceptible to storms and high winds

2019-03-29 02:50:11 UTC  

so storm damage is increased

2019-03-29 02:50:58 UTC  

I would have thought trees and such would be the main barriers against storms

2019-03-29 02:51:36 UTC  

not for the topsoil

2019-03-29 02:51:58 UTC  

I guess in Lost there's no way there would only be those few boars for hunting.. they'd be everywhere considering how long they'd been there

2019-03-29 02:52:00 UTC  

ground cover foliage protects the topsoil from run off, literally being swept into the ocean

2019-03-29 02:52:24 UTC  

kind of like what caused the dust bowl in the American Midwest

2019-03-29 02:52:33 UTC  

but more water and less dust

2019-03-29 02:52:45 UTC  

if nothing is holding the soil in place it just drains right into the ocean

2019-03-29 02:53:03 UTC  

So basically the island would just be turned into a mini desert

2019-03-29 02:53:12 UTC  

yes

2019-03-29 02:54:23 UTC  

the foundation for life is grasses and low-lying bushes

2019-03-29 02:54:41 UTC  

they proliferate and secure the soil, allowing for more complex ecologies and larger foliage

2019-03-29 02:55:02 UTC  

without them weather can just devastate areas

2019-03-29 02:55:24 UTC  

its why they use grasses to secure beaches from erosion

2019-03-29 02:59:27 UTC  

Yea it would be a shame if all that happened. We already destroyed a lot of the pristine places left on the planet, don't need to add another

2019-03-29 11:46:44 UTC  

I got a bit busy, my bad!

2019-03-29 11:46:58 UTC  

@InsaneCaterpilla 😛 Glad to hear you're well though.

2019-03-29 12:59:11 UTC  

Captain America was killed at the end of Civil War in the comics

2019-03-29 12:59:23 UTC  

I'm talking about the movies

2019-03-29 12:59:24 UTC  

he was shot by an ordinary citizen because of all the destruction caused by the fighting

2019-03-29 12:59:25 UTC  

Why would they end the avengers stor ark''

2019-03-29 12:59:26 UTC  

it was huge

2019-03-29 12:59:33 UTC  

and then they just brought him back

2019-03-29 12:59:59 UTC  

probably ran out of ideas

2019-03-29 13:00:01 UTC  

@CommanderSky1 Avenger: Endgame is the end of the 22 film story that began with Iron Man. Spider-Man: Far From Home begins the next arc

2019-03-29 13:00:02 UTC  

nothing last forever

2019-03-29 13:00:08 UTC  

the only reason the MCU will kill off characters is because their actors refuse to resign contracts

2019-03-29 13:00:16 UTC  

yes

2019-03-29 13:00:18 UTC  

and even then they might recast and call it a transformation