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On trees... (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago

Same for roots, btw, just earlier.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 22 points 1 week 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 15 points 1 week 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 1 week 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.

[-] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Something, something, biology.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So now I actually think this idea is on to something brilliant. I have been diving into neuroscience lately and this sounds like an amazing experimental method.

It’s like non-surgically transplanting your eyes into your hips. Why do that? To further refine brain-body mapping.

We turn our head instinctively to aid vision. Once our brain realizes that visual input improves only when we move our hips, body awareness will shift significantly.

@DoubleSpace@lemm.ee the best ideas start as jokes

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[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

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

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 17 points 1 week ago

https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/dendrolycopodium/dendroideum/

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204198-Dendrolycopodium-obscurum

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[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

tbf isn't a tree just a plant but big? makes sense that any plant species can evolve into a tree just by getting bigger

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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I thought crab-like animals were all actually pretty closely related to each other, i.e. all crab-like animals are arthropods, which is a less broad category (despite the incredibly huge amount of species in it) than 'all plants that can form a wooden trunk'. Any taxonomists here to confirm/deny?

[-] prole 13 points 1 week ago

Things have independently evolved into crabs like five times or something

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

Yes, but I think OP’s point is those 5-6 crab-events all came from a narrow taxonomic group. All plant families have some trees. Only one sub-group of animals contains crabs.

It is as if all trees only came from members of the lily family.