• Scientists Confirm that Plants Talk and Listen To Each Other, Communication Crucial for Survival
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[QUOTE=ladiida;36349606]No matter what you eat, you are going to be a heartless life eating monster. Welp, time to grow some chlorophyll and photosynthesize![/QUOTE] Those poor innocent photons!
THOSE POOR PLANTS Now to eat vacuum
I can just imagine cutting a cabbage from the ground, all the others around it detach and roll off. [editline]18th June 2012[/editline] Like a flock of birds
I must be the only one here who doesn't understand how the plants vibrate to produce the clicks. The article talks about soil being a good medium for sound, but never states/details a way for the sound to be produced.
What do they think when I start the lawn mower?
[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;36349022][MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNuAoPW30U[/MEDIA][/QUOTE] god dammit this is my favorite show
I read this as "planets talk and listen to eachother"
[QUOTE=BCell;36353797]Think of plants as computer software. They are automated machines that has no intelligence but are programmed to react to certain situation. The software detects a hardware error, it will sends out an error notice. Much like the plants[/QUOTE] Huh, never really thought of plants as software tbh; they seem more like hardware and software together, since they're physical after all.
[QUOTE=ironman17;36379527]Huh, never really thought of plants as software tbh; they seem more like hardware and software together, since they're physical after all.[/QUOTE] I think they'd best be described as relatively simple machines with software dictating how they react to everything
I don't get the purpose or how. How does it know a Herbivore is approaching? Do they see it, smell it? Plants don't have any senses. And why do they communicate with each other? "Herbivore is coming!" "Oh, alright thanks let me pick up my roots and run away."
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;36381712]I don't get the purpose or how. How does it know a Herbivore is approaching? Do they see it, smell it? Plants don't have any senses. And why do they communicate with each other? "Herbivore is coming!" "Oh, alright thanks let me pick up my roots and run away."[/QUOTE] Plant releases toxins when bitten, other plants notice, release toxin as well.
Isnt it painfully Ironic that the Mythbusters tested this several years ago and ended up proving it "Busted"? :v:
[QUOTE=calebc789;36394786]Isnt it painfully Ironic that the Mythbusters tested this several years ago and ended up proving it "Busted"? :v:[/QUOTE] This is not what they tested.
This is pretty cool stuff. I'm glad to know plants and animals are still outsmarting us with underestimated abilities. But why is everyone so smug about this? It's not as if vegans are doing you harm by not eating animal products, jesus. Besides which, the animals that vegetarians refuse to eat all have at least a central nervous system, if not a brain. Plants release sounds and chemicals when they are physically attacked, not equivocal.
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