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[-] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 163 points 2 weeks ago

Had to look it up because I didnt beleive

sure enough its correct

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 130 points 2 weeks ago

Something poetic and quaint about a link to a Wikipedia article titled "Tree"

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago

reddit has broken me. I was expecting it to point to weed.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago
[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit has broken me. I was expecting a rickroll

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

sooo glad I wasn't alone.

anyhow, here's a fun song.

[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I was expecting an undirected acyclic graph.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yo momma so fat she sat on a binary tree and squashed it into a linked list in O(1) time.

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[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 73 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a billion years, crabs will start turning into trees and trees into crabs. merging into the ubercreature

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a billion years

Damn. You look good for your age.

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[-] m_xy@lemmy.world 63 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

here’s a cool blog post that expands on this There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

i didn’t even put it in a bookmark folder, it’s just loose on my bookmark bar because it’s such an interesting post that i reread from time to time

[-] Thadden@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

That was a very fun and interesting reading! Thanks for sharing

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[-] hash@slrpnk.net 62 points 2 weeks ago

So that's why every stargate planet looks like Canada

[-] Knuschberkeks@leminal.space 13 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly Lemmy isn't big enough to support niche communities, but I really enjoyed r/unexpectedstargate back in the day.

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[-] kubica@fedia.io 56 points 2 weeks ago

Nature likes things that turn hard- Wait what?

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 weeks ago

Weren't there like, several millions of years where trees evolved but nothing had come yet to break down wood, so like, generations of dead forest just fell on top of each other until some fungus was like "that looks yummy"?

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago

The molecule is called lignin. And yes, there was a good 60 million years before that particular problem was cracked.

[-] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago
[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

First, we bio-engineer bacteria and fungi to prefer plastic as food.

Second, these bacteria become a serious endopathogen in the human body while scavenging our precious bodily microplastics.

Third, we engineer a bacteriophage to attack the bacteria in our brains.

Fourth…

The whole human comedy just keeps going and going

[-] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

The beautiful part is that when wintertime rolls around the gorillas simply freeze to death

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[-] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

I know an old woman who swallowed a fly...

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago

I think palm trees are a kind of grass

[-] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I didn’t know that and I agree

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[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

Also, no such thing as fish.

Google it.

[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago

Impossible. If there were no such thing as fish, how could bees be fish?

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don’t have the tools to know how to respond to this comment. You win.

Edit: Holy shit. I just did a quick google. Boydster is not shitting us. Just google “bees are fish.” Oddly enough, this actually furthers the thesis of fish not existing.

[-] Devmapall@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

To add on for anyone who is lazy like me, the thing where Google summarizes says California has classified bees as fish under an environmental protection act. According to the first result (Reddit) it's because fish is a catch all term in that law. Instead of listing all the animals they just use fish. Because fish,bees, and the other animals are all invertebrates.

Now whoever reads this has three Lemmy comments, a reddit thread reference, and an ai overview reference as some solid sources

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

Fish are vertebrates they have a backbone

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[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don’t have the tools to know how to respond to this comment. You win.

This is the best way I've ever seen utter befuddlement expressed. Chapeau!

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[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 33 points 2 weeks ago

My sister in law recently quipped that "Trees are a social construct" and at first I thought she was just being glib but now I can't get that statement out of my head.

[-] resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 weeks ago

I listen to a podcast called Completely Arbortrary. They talk about a different tree species each episode. They say trees are a strategy, not a strict definition.

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[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 weeks ago
[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 2 weeks ago

evolution intensifies

[-] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 31 points 2 weeks ago

Its called convergent evolution and you also have some shit you wouldnt believe that makes all apes similar to us.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago

Apes are so similar to us because we came from a common ancestor. I'd love to hear if there are traits we evolved independently after we split though.

[-] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Hit me. I love evolutionary fun facts.

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[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 29 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 weeks ago

Same for roots, btw, just earlier.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 22 points 2 weeks ago

And it's not even one creature or even type of creature. Look up rhizobium.

Tbf, as we learn more about our gut microbiomes, it turns out that humans are that way as well. Maybe that's why we have the thoughts in our heads vs. the feelings in our guts... (no that's actually not it at all, except... isn't it though?).

[-] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago

I figure the feeling of being in your head is simply due to your eyeballs being located there. Now I want to put a 3d camera on my hips, and steam it to VR goggles.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

The hips do not lie. Ipso facto, you would be seeing ultimate truth.

It turns out that the meaning of life is at crotch level.

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There are fern trees, conifer trees, and flowering trees. Where are my moss trees?

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago

theres also a definition of a what a tree in the sense , its develops wood, many things are tree like, but not trees: such as palms(just overgrown herbs), dracaena( aka cabbage tree, they have something dracenoid thickining.) extinct plants like giant lycophytes and ferns

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago

I wasn't ready for how weird this comment section turned out to be...

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[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago
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