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It looks like an old mineral crystal. "Strange plant-like" sounds very amateurish and does not reflect facts.
by dschuetz 5y ago
It looks like an old mineral crystal. "Strange plant-like" sounds very amateurish and does not reflect facts.
- mrtksn 5y agoIt looks like a plant in my opinion, which doesn't mean it is necessarily a plant but it means that its appearance is like a plant. I don't see any inaccuracies in the description. Of course if someone thinks that doesn't look like a plant but crystal or an animal, they are fre to describe it as "crystal-like" or "animal-like". Its alright bo be impressed with its looks I guess, noone is going to make a salad of it, so it is not dangerous to think that it looks like a plant.
- Qem 5y agoLooks more like a coral.
- mrtksn 5y agoI agree, I often forget that corals are not plants(but they look like plants, which probably means that the Mars rock that look like a coral also looks like a plant).
- DFHippie 5y agoAnd they act like plants: they photosynthesize; they are sessile; and they are structured as a thin layer of living tissue over a dead, rigid internal support.
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoI could see that, or a sea sponge[1] 1: https://study.com/academy/lesson/sea-sponge-lesson-for-kids.html https://study.com/academy/lesson/sea-sponge-lesson-for-kids....
- cocomutator 5y agoI shall learn from this post how to disagree respectfully on the internet. Hats off.
- wrycoder 5y agoThere must be a Latin name for “plant-like” that could have been used. Maybe “anomalous herbiform entity”. But, I’m poor at crosswords.
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- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoAnd then there are those of us who just prefer plain English. Using Latin in a publication aimed at laypeople sounds pretentious.
- embedded_hiker 5y agoThis reminds me of when I heard the phrase "lenticular cloud". I looked it up, hoping to learn something about how these clouds are formed, etc. It simply means "shaped like a lentil".
- Hallucinaut 5y agoPerhaps this is autocorrect gone awry, but it has nothing to do with lentils. Not a meteorologist, but from all I understand it means lens-shaped, and to me that immediately gives a strong clue as to how they form since lenses have focal points and can, to some degree, have shapes expressed as formulae about some origin. Which to me is suggestive of the relation to the mountains around which they form.
- ncmncm 5y ago"Lentil" is itself a reference to its lens-like shape, same as the cloud. "Lenticular" has nothing in it suggestive of legumes.
- darepublic 5y agoSaying plant vs crystal makes it more click bait.
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- weare138 5y agoReminds me of coral.
- dvh 5y agoI think he got offended because he understood "plant-like" in a functional sense (e.g. that it uses photosynthesis), maybe "plant-shaped" would be more accurate.
- Vox_Leone 5y agoStalagmite-like formation would also be an accurate description, without the hype. The abuse of bombastic announcements like this one does a disservice to science in general and the space exploration in particular. This gotta stop.
- aliswe 5y agoIts not NASAs title, its OPs
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