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Do Plants Talk?
- gubatron 16y agoThis reminds me of a short film called "Descendants" http://vimeo.com/8642276 http://vimeo.com/8642276
- keltecp11 16y agothat was creepy.
- Mz 16y agoI'm an environmental studies major, so I have heard before that plants communicate with each other via chemicals and also apparently "scream" when injured (some pulse or other they measured - not something humans can hear). So I have long joked that if I were a vegetarian, I would probably favor a bumper sticker or t-shirt that said something like "I don't love animals, I just hate plants". (Just trying to stay on-topic and not stray towards the topic lower down on the page, which may be a very bad motivation for commenting. <whistles innocently>)
- vyrotek 16y agoI couldn't help imagine the screams from mowing the lawn yesterday.
- Serene 16y agoPeople can communicate by smell too - willy-nilly. Most often it's bacteria on human skin that detects changes - such as stress hormones - and respond in their own ways. Some people can smell stress in other people.
- zackattack 16y agoThis is fascinating. Can you link me to some resources/books/articles where I can learn more? Thanks!
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- nnash 16y agoCleve Baxter did a lot of research on this, and his experiments were even featured on an episode of myth busters. His research indicated that plants can sense a humans intentions. He figured this out by attaching polygraphs to plants and then directing negative thoughts towards the plant (cutting, burning etc.). The polygraph then went haywire, but when he thought nice things about the plant the polygraph stayed normal.
- johnohara 16y agoSetting up experiments to determine if they talk would be interesting. Finding out that most of the time they gossip about each others' foliage would be hilarious.
- known 16y agoSometime back I read DNA has affinity towards its sibling DNA.