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Yeah trees are kinda like little arcologies with chloroplasts going around doing photosynthesis. I like to think that a chloroplast comes home from doing photosynthesis on the outer leaves to his home in the trunk system and says "boy am I beat" to his chloroplast wife and she pats him on the back in the way only organelles can.
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i think of them as big urinals
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I like this thought. Also neat to think of our bodies that way too. Our microbiome is a little party goin on inside us, just bacterias doin their own poo poo, sippin yogurt and kombucha. And somehow these fellas can influence our moods? Idk a lot about this poo poo but its kickin rad.
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Communist Toast posted:I like this thought. Also neat to think of our bodies that way too. Our microbiome is a little party goin on inside us, just bacterias doin their own poo poo, sippin yogurt and kombucha. And somehow these fellas can influence our moods? Idk a lot about this poo poo but its kickin rad. Yeah this also but there are a few more players involved. I wonder if there is maybe a white blood cell whos burned out on murdering foreign and invasive cells and dreams of a job as a neuron up in the brain.
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May 1, 2021 00:36
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I learned about the Gaia Hypothesis in eighth grade and I think it's cool. It kinda suggests that humanity is cancer though. So maybe not so great if you try to be an optimist about our civilization.
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May 1, 2021 01:05
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And I think of broccoli as little trees which, if you think about it, makes me a god.
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I learned about the Gaia Hypothesis in eighth grade and I think it's cool. thankfully i dont lol
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May 1, 2021 01:22
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That old game Faxanadu made you go all the way up a tree and through the civilizations living it it. They were all a bunch of stupid goblin assholes
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May 1, 2021 01:24
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If a trees roots touch another trees roots do the two trees know that theres another tree out there??
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May 1, 2021 02:05
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Toothpicks, golf tees, and future parking lots
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I learned about the Gaia Hypothesis in eighth grade and I think it's cool. look at this nerd, learning things in school i learned about Gaia Hypothesis from the SimEarth manual
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May 1, 2021 02:09
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That's where I learned it too! I took a technology elective that had us doing different modules for a week at a time and one of them was a biotech module that had us playing SimEarth 
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May 1, 2021 02:13
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Soulkys posted:If a trees roots touch another trees roots do the two trees know that theres another tree out there?? There was an m night shambalam movie where trees did this and decided they wanted to kill matt damon
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May 1, 2021 02:25
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Each one is it's own little biome housing tons of small animals and insects. You're not wrong 
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Aegis Bear posted:Each one is it's own little biome housing tons of small animals and insects. You're not wrong Redwoods can get salamanders and basically plankton in their upper branches.
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May 1, 2021 02:47
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I like the idea of those tree pods that you get your body sealed into when you die and the tree's roots take up the nutrients made from your decay so you kinda become a tree in a way. I'd like to be a cherry tree personally
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Heath posted:I like the idea of those tree pods that you get your body sealed into when you die and the tree's roots take up the nutrients made from your decay so you kinda become a tree in a way. I'd like to be a cherry tree personally I'd like to become a walnut tree so everyone can eat my nuts far after im gone and then one day I'll get turned into a beautiful chest of drawers.
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Poohs Packin posted:I'd like to become a walnut tree so everyone can eat my nuts far after im gone and then one day I'll get turned into a beautiful chest of drawers. Toothpicks and golf tees motherfucker.
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Aegis Bear posted:Each one is it's own little biome housing tons of small animals and insects. You're not wrong One day I was walking through the forest a few hours after eating 5 to 6 grams of Psilocybe cubensis and noticed a wound on an oak tree. It was dripping sap and had attracted fuzzy aphids, which excrete sweet honeydew from the sap they drink. There were ants herding the aphids to harvest their honeydew. About half the ants were on harvest duty and the other half were defending against some honey bees that had a hive further up the tree, who had also taken notice of the aphids. This whole tiny drama featuring hundreds of players was happening out within such a small space, and I realized that these tiny dramas were playing out in thousands of places within my woods. I felt overwhelmingly connected and grateful. I looked down and noticed hen of the woods growing at the base of the oak. I broke off a small piece of the hen of the woods, ate it, and gave the tree a hug Poohs Packin fucked around with this message at 03:30 on May 1, 2021 |
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May 1, 2021 03:10
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trees ARE cities. squirrel cities.
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theyre an organism for sure op
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May 1, 2021 03:51
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What a coincidence! I always think of cities as little trees.
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Big weird dicks
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They're called stamens
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Heath posted:They're called stamens Stamen deez nuts!!
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Icochet posted:Big weird dicks Everything is kind of a dick what with supersymmetry
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That Planet Earth episode about grasslands where it gets really down and close in there showing the whole ecology of insects and tiny critters.
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May 1, 2021 16:43
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Earth is kind of a dumb name for this planet. Terra is cooler. We should lobby to change it.
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May 1, 2021 16:46
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If trees are so great how come they haven't even invented anything lately?
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Poohs Packin posted:One day I was walking through the forest a few hours after eating 5 to 6 grams of Psilocybe cubensis and noticed a wound on an oak tree. It was dripping sap and had attracted fuzzy aphids, which excrete sweet honeydew from the sap they drink. There were ants herding the aphids to harvest their honeydew. About half the ants were on harvest duty and the other half were defending against some honey bees that had a hive further up the tree, who had also taken notice of the aphids. After you hugged the tree were you covered in aphids sap honey and bees?
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No. I was careful.
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Big Beef City posted:If trees are so great how come they haven't even invented anything lately? When trees cum the lakes turn yellow. In the words of clint easwood "there are two kinds of organisms in the world: the kind whose cum appear in satellite imagery, and the kind that do all the other stuff"
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I see men as trees, walking
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yeah same. i mostly did it as a kid but i would tend to look at trees as huge cities, trees that are damaged or dead are like, abandoned ruins, towering above the ground. ancient giant tree dwelling aliens. yeah that's the fuckin' ticket. my mind would go weird places just based around the idea of tree = city
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Soulkys posted:If a trees roots touch another trees roots do the two trees know that theres another tree out there?? If a trees roots touch another trees roots does that mean they're gay?
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