See BS so this might not be true
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?
Groot!.............
Oh no, poor vegans.
The next step is to eat only mineral matter.
“Lithians”.
> 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.
In 1972 I was showing a newspaper clipping of this to guys in the army.
Isn’t anything ever new?
When an oak tree falls, it screams ‘Falling’. Usually in english.
If true, the measurements should be quantifiable and repeatable.
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.
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.”
Using a spectrum analyzer to measure frequency and signal strength, a tree set on fire can communicate the disaster hundreds of miles away.
Cleve Baxter. . .look him up for early findings about plants and polygraphs.
How long before we have people claim that people with plants that don’t care to listen and respond to these cries, are evil?
https://youtu.be/XzugQBkUrZk&t=45
The Ents go to war
Why? Who are they calling to for help exactly? Other plants are in no position to help out. Animals other than humans don't care and couldn't help anyway.
Academic stupid had reach and surpassed critical sustainability.
“Apparently, an idyllic field of flowers can be a rather noisy place,”
Idyllic for whom?
Do plants also sing when they’re doing well?
A repeat of old OLD news from 55 years ago. Remember when plants were found to have emotions back then? If you wired them, the pulled one up and tore it to pieces the other plants would register hysteria like feelings.
Others trace it farther back to the late 1800s.
Many sat it was just a joke to see how many fools were out there to believe it.
I like the way lettuce crunches when I eat it.