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Plants Emit a "Rather Noisy" Cry for Help When Under Stress, Scientists Find [Some Animals Can Hear Them]
CBS News ^ | Li Cohen

Posted on 04/04/2023 1:06:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 04/04/2023 1:06:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

See BS so this might not be true


2 posted on 04/04/2023 1:11:18 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: nickcarraway

And the angel of the lord came unto me
Snatching me up from my place of slumber
And took me on high and higher still
Until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself
And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own Midwest
And as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil
One thousand nay a million voices full of fear
And terror possessed me then
And I begged Angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams?
And the angel said unto me
These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!
You see, Reverend Maynard
Tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat
Like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared
“Hear me now, I have seen the light!
They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul!
Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!
Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah?


3 posted on 04/04/2023 1:12:06 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: nickcarraway

Groot!.............


4 posted on 04/04/2023 1:12:18 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Fai Mao

They are not making it up.


5 posted on 04/04/2023 1:13:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Oh no, poor vegans.

The next step is to eat only mineral matter.

“Lithians”.


6 posted on 04/04/2023 1:13:42 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: Fai Mao
It's from the scientific journal Cell, and was printed in Nature.
7 posted on 04/04/2023 1:13:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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> plants cry out for help <

To what end? Let’s say a cow cries out for help. There’s a good chance that other cows will help, or will at least be alerted to a danger. But what would be the evolutionary (or intelligent design) value of a plant expending energy to do so?

Oh, and good job CBS for shoving climate change into the story. Because as we all know, every last thing is somehow related to climate change.


8 posted on 04/04/2023 1:14:54 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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So now I can tell vegans they’re engaging in cruelty when the murder plants to eat? Cool!


9 posted on 04/04/2023 1:15:26 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: rfp1234

G.K. Chesterton was making fun of vegetarians/vegans in one of his books. [I think specifically Leo Tolstoy] I think he had them eating salt.


10 posted on 04/04/2023 1:15:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah?

Nah.

But I will give you a giggle.

11 posted on 04/04/2023 1:16:04 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: nickcarraway

In 1972 I was showing a newspaper clipping of this to guys in the army.

Isn’t anything ever new?


12 posted on 04/04/2023 1:16:58 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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When an oak tree falls, it screams ‘Falling’. Usually in english.


13 posted on 04/04/2023 1:17:03 PM PDT by sasquatch
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https://owlcation.com/stem/Truffles-and-Trees-The-Benefits-of-Mycorrhizal-Fungi


14 posted on 04/04/2023 1:17:14 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Rufus T Firefly lives on. )
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If true, the measurements should be quantifiable and repeatable.


15 posted on 04/04/2023 1:18:13 PM PDT by fretzer
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I can believe plants in distress might signal distress in some way, and perhaps even that insects that feed on them might be able to detect those signals, but cry for help? No.


16 posted on 04/04/2023 1:19:14 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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Oh no, poor vegans. The next step is to eat only mineral matter.

They can eat ze bugs.

17 posted on 04/04/2023 1:19:15 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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Old news (https://www.irva.org/speaker/backster-cleve).
“Mr. Backster established the polygraphy program at the Central Intelligence Agency beginning in 1947. In the mid-1960s, he began experiments with plants and other biological entities to see if they exhibited electromagnetic responses to distant stimuli. Associated with this were a number of psychokinetic experiments conducted with a newly emerging parapsychology researcher named Ingo Swann. Cleve Backster played an important role in bringing Mr. Swann and Dr. Hal Puthoff together for the first time in what ultimately led to the quarter-century-long government remote viewing program.”


18 posted on 04/04/2023 1:22:03 PM PDT by Hulka
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"The wood-wide web". There are Aspen groves on line with other Aspen groves 500 miles away. The fungus in the soil acts like neurotransmitters. The tree roots help the fungus and the fungus helps the trees.

Using a spectrum analyzer to measure frequency and signal strength, a tree set on fire can communicate the disaster hundreds of miles away.

19 posted on 04/04/2023 1:22:15 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Rufus T Firefly lives on. )
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Cleve Baxter. . .look him up for early findings about plants and polygraphs.


20 posted on 04/04/2023 1:23:00 PM PDT by Hulka
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