JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited July 2019
Grass also packs itself with little silica daggers called phytoliths. Some species use this to turn themselves into tiny saws that cut up any mammals who run through them, but mostly they exist to wear down mammal teeth, discouraging grazers.
It's theorized that a sudden climate shift in North America around 30 million years ago favored higher-silica grasses, leading to the sudden extinction of most grazing mammals, including horses, camels, and rhinos. The only grazing megafauna that survived were those with teeth long or tough enough to survive the constant grass onslaught long enough to reproduce.
Grass also packs itself with little silica daggers called phytoliths. Some species use this to turn themselves into tiny saws that cut up any mammals who run through them, but mostly they exist to wear down mammal teeth, discouraging grazers.
It's theorized that a sudden climate shift in North America around 30 million years ago favored higher-silica grasses, leading to the sudden extinction of most grazing mammals, including horses, camels, and rhinos. The only grazing megafauna that survived were those with teeth long or tough enough to survive the constant grass onslaught long enough to reproduce.
Don't fuck with grass.
Then humans were like "hey neat, let's make food with this and make it the staple of our diets"
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
Grass also packs itself with little silica daggers called phytoliths. Some species use this to turn themselves into tiny saws that cut up any mammals who run through them, but mostly they exist to wear down mammal teeth, discouraging grazers.
It's theorized that a sudden climate shift in North America around 30 million years ago favored higher-silica grasses, leading to the sudden extinction of most grazing mammals, including horses, camels, and rhinos. The only grazing megafauna that survived were those with teeth long or tough enough to survive the constant grass onslaught long enough to reproduce.
Don't fuck with grass.
When I was learning about Cam 3 style plants the teacher went off on a side talk about the grasslands of North America and how it may of been one large organism left over from the pre ice age
I remember watching a documentary about how grass had enough of trees who were covering up the sun so they evolved to be able extremely burnable and burnt down all the trees
I never saw Grass the same way again
Edit: i don't know how scientific accutate this is though, could be bullshit
Fuck I love the idea that grass consciously starts wildfires to kill baby trees
I feel like this is a M Night Shyamalan script
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Mr_Rose83 Blue Ridge Protects the HolyRegistered Userregular
I remember watching a documentary about how grass had enough of trees who were covering up the sun so they evolved to be able extremely burnable and burnt down all the trees
I never saw Grass the same way again
Edit: i don't know how scientific accutate this is though, could be bullshit
Fuck I love the idea that grass consciously starts wildfires to kill baby trees
I feel like this is a M Night Shyamalan script
Maybe the good first act but it’s missing the twist where the grass was actually the baby trees all along and the whole thing is a secret suicide cult.
Plants and fungi are ridiculous. I include both in that statement because plants and fungus have developed a beneficial relationship that is essential to something like 90% of above ground plants in the world.
If you're like me, you thought that plants were basically self-contained organisms. They photosynthesize CO2 into sugars and oxygen, and then use sugars to grow. Right?
Actually, most of those sugars aren't used for growing the plants, they're used for bribes.
See, the vast majority of plants can't actually break up the minerals they need to grow, so they give their sugars to fungus called mycelium. The mycelium then breaks up minerals in the soil and gives it back to the plants. Plants make sugar for the fungus, fungus mines minerals for the plants. This isn't just a beneficial relationship that's really useful, killing the fungi kills the plant.
Also the actual thing we think of when we say mushrooms is basically fungi genitalia.
Good thing a basic, plain strawberry isn't a reproductive organ of any kind. Or a mango. Or an avocado. Or the seed (hehe) of the wheat plant. Or the seed (hehe) of the maize plant.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited July 2019
Fruits and seeds are fertilised ova/ovaries, but they're not fungus peens, and I find that funnier.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Well they don't look like that by accident
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
The only argument I buy for intelligent design is the fact that so many things look like dicks, and that it's always hilarious basically
The only argument I buy for intelligent design is the fact that so many things look like dicks, and that it's always hilarious basically
this is easily explained by the fact that natural selection would make us focus our pattern recognition abilities on noticing genitalia super hard
second only to noticing snakes
The only argument I buy for intelligent design is the fact that so many things look like dicks, and that it's always hilarious basically
this is easily explained by the fact that natural selection would make us focus our pattern recognition abilities on noticing genitalia super hard
second only to noticing snakes
See I knew the doctor who have me that Rorschach test was wrong! They did all look like dicks!
I know it's supposed to be funny but the texture on the head instead horrifies me.
I know, right?
So accurate, it’s spooky
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
speaking of science, my friend has some pretty strong bar magnets, and we were playing a game where we'd throw them towards to each other so they'd attach in mid air
we do this a couple of times, and then we throw them, they connect, and then they move up instead of falling to the ground, and stick to the drop panel ceiling. We're like "wtf" and take the panel down. Someone left a pretty hefty solid iron cylinder in the ceiling, sticking through a perfectly sized hole in a wooden support beam, for some reason? The thing was big, it was like, 20 pounds at least.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
The only argument I buy for intelligent design is the fact that so many things look like dicks, and that it's always hilarious basically
this is easily explained by the fact that natural selection would make us focus our pattern recognition abilities on noticing genitalia super hard
second only to noticing snakes
Yeah but why are they hilarious tho
That's cross-cultural too! Everyone draws dicks! Even women draw dicks on stuff! Women I've known anyway. The Romans did it!
Edit: look all I'm saying is that when the Bible says we are made in God's image, it's specifically their juvenile sense of humor that we're talking about. God made the dick and looked upon their work and saw that it was super funny, and lo, it was good.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
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You should really read Semiosis.
It's theorized that a sudden climate shift in North America around 30 million years ago favored higher-silica grasses, leading to the sudden extinction of most grazing mammals, including horses, camels, and rhinos. The only grazing megafauna that survived were those with teeth long or tough enough to survive the constant grass onslaught long enough to reproduce.
Don't fuck with grass.
Then humans were like "hey neat, let's make food with this and make it the staple of our diets"
I... have my doubts.
But I guess they knew that already?
it's real
and terrifying
Some of the stuff we see from that technology in our case meetings genuinely gives me pause.
What you don't like tech that can see people's vitals through walls?
It defeats the whole purpose of a labyrinth!!!!!!
Seconding 3clipse's recommendation of Semiosis
All we gotta do now is make it work at orbital distances…
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When I was learning about Cam 3 style plants the teacher went off on a side talk about the grasslands of North America and how it may of been one large organism left over from the pre ice age
I feel like this is a M Night Shyamalan script
Maybe the good first act but it’s missing the twist where the grass was actually the baby trees all along and the whole thing is a secret suicide cult.
Nintendo Network ID: AzraelRose
DropBox invite link - get 500MB extra free.
If you're like me, you thought that plants were basically self-contained organisms. They photosynthesize CO2 into sugars and oxygen, and then use sugars to grow. Right?
Actually, most of those sugars aren't used for growing the plants, they're used for bribes.
See, the vast majority of plants can't actually break up the minerals they need to grow, so they give their sugars to fungus called mycelium. The mycelium then breaks up minerals in the soil and gives it back to the plants. Plants make sugar for the fungus, fungus mines minerals for the plants. This isn't just a beneficial relationship that's really useful, killing the fungi kills the plant.
https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/lawns-gardens-trees/the-root-of-tree-health-beneficial-fungi
I've read about it.
I always did feel a kinship to mushrooms
Good thing a basic, plain strawberry isn't a reproductive organ of any kind. Or a mango. Or an avocado. Or the seed (hehe) of the wheat plant. Or the seed (hehe) of the maize plant.
What I'm hearing is that the Super Mario Brothers movie basically had its science right.
So would you say you're a fun...person?
Are you calling me a dick?
I know it's supposed to be funny but the texture on the head instead horrifies me.
this is easily explained by the fact that natural selection would make us focus our pattern recognition abilities on noticing genitalia super hard
second only to noticing snakes
See I knew the doctor who have me that Rorschach test was wrong! They did all look like dicks!
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I know, right?
So accurate, it’s spooky
we do this a couple of times, and then we throw them, they connect, and then they move up instead of falling to the ground, and stick to the drop panel ceiling. We're like "wtf" and take the panel down. Someone left a pretty hefty solid iron cylinder in the ceiling, sticking through a perfectly sized hole in a wooden support beam, for some reason? The thing was big, it was like, 20 pounds at least.
Yeah but why are they hilarious tho
That's cross-cultural too! Everyone draws dicks! Even women draw dicks on stuff! Women I've known anyway. The Romans did it!
Edit: look all I'm saying is that when the Bible says we are made in God's image, it's specifically their juvenile sense of humor that we're talking about. God made the dick and looked upon their work and saw that it was super funny, and lo, it was good.
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A thousand times more.
There would be a Priapus sponsored dating app.
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