i love the desert.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation. About one third of the land surface of the world is arid or semi-arid. This includes much of the polar regions where little precipitation occurs and which are sometimes called polar deserts or \"cold deserts\". Deserts can be classified by the amount of precipitation that falls, by the temperature that prevails, by the causes of desertification or by their geographical location. Deserts are formed by weathering processes as large variations in temperature between day and night put strains on the rocks which consequently break in pieces. Although rain seldom occurs in deserts, there are occasional downpours that can result in flash floods. Rain falling on hot rocks can cause them to shatter and the resulting fragments and rubble strewn over the desert floor is further eroded by the wind. This picks up particles of sand and dust and wafts them aloft in sand or dust storms. Wind-blown sand grains striking any solid object in their path can abrade the surface.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love the way the desert is barren with harsh conditions, its romantic in a way"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am not sure I find it romantic haha, I wouldn't last long there"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Me either but about a third of the earths land mass is desert"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh wow, I never knew so much of it was desert! Are there many animals that live on it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not sure but I think the deserts in the polar regions are cool they call them cold deserts"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They have cold deserts!  That is crazy are they in like Antarctica "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In the polar regions that get very little rain"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see, so it all comes down to how much precipitation they get to be classified as a desert?\\"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes and all the rubble you see in the desert comes from rare rain hitting hot rocks which shatters them"}, {"role": "user", "content": "the rocks are so hot, when the cold rain hits them they shatter! I never knew that how interesting!"}]