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"Scream" is a sensationalist word, it anthromorphizes plants. You might as well say you can hear them sing Chop Suey's lyrics when they get cut down: Father, in
by scooperx 4y ago
"Scream" is a sensationalist word, it anthromorphizes plants. You might as well say you can hear them sing Chop Suey's lyrics when they get cut down:
Father, into your hands I commend my spirit
Father, into your hands
Why have you forsaken me?
In your eyes forsaken me
In your thoughts forsaken me
In your heart forsaken me, oh
- aix1 4y agoThe story behind those lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P__qjVB9Tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P__qjVB9Tc
- crazygringo 4y agoThe start of the article is hilariously contradictory: > They may be filling your house with deafening clicks... > These noises are at about the volume of a normal human conversation...
- mdp2021 4y agoThe joke there is that for living entities as apparently quiet as plants human conversation level noise may seem a fracas. Rephrased: "for the standards of a plant as we may have imagined it, those noises may seem deafening".