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[-] [email protected] 178 points 10 months ago

I was told to touch grass, but when I did that it yelled "sexual harassment."

[-] [email protected] 142 points 10 months ago

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It only said it licks feet. Gotcha.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Still going to do the splits

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Sexual grassment

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Maybe it was Henry the anti assgrab crabgrass. https://youtu.be/1n7NB-lPJuU

[-] [email protected] 125 points 10 months ago

I'm something of a "not a scientist" myself

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Same. Would like answers.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Did some searching. The paper from 2019 that discussed this -

We recorded 65 dBSPL (dB of sound pressure level) ultrasonic sounds 4 inches (10 cm) from tomato and tobacco plants, implying that these sounds could be detected by some organisms from up to several feet (meters) away.

https://www.sci.news/biology/plants-ultrasonic-clicks-07895.html

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I would like some weed. As a nonscientist, answers come secondary to weed.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Its legal to "not be a scientist" where I live

[-] [email protected] 108 points 10 months ago

"I am not a scientist, I just smoke weed" needs to be a shirt.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure what it actually means though

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"High thoughts," almost like shower thoughts, but driven by weed and, in my experience, learning an interesting fact or tidbit.

So they're not a scientist and don't have formal training in sounds or plants or animals, they learned a fact and got high and connected some dots, haha

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

imagine a shirt that says "I'm not a scientist". it's basically that but if you smoke weed you are obligated to tell everyone unprompted, so this is for weed smokers who want a shirt that says I'm not a scientist.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

a further idea: Front of the shirt says "I am not a scientist"

Back of the shirt says "I just smoke weed"

[-] [email protected] 90 points 10 months ago

That explains why my fuzzy terrorist always wants to bite them.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

Yes, if the plant is screaming at having its leaves torn, my little psychopath would absolutely be like “bite it harder!”

[-] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago

Wait... If the plants are whispering to my cat late at night. Is that why the little fucker spazzes out and goes crazy all over the house at 3 am?

[-] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

Well, during the day plants are busy working (photosynthesising, defending, sticking pollen to bugs), they only have a chance to get socially chatty at night.

And cats love plant humour.
Except that of succulents. They crunch too much.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

That and all the ghost activity at 3am

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[-] [email protected] 76 points 10 months ago

Did some checking, out of curiosity.

And yeah. Interesting as hell.

We recorded 65 dBSPL (dB of sound pressure level) ultrasonic sounds 4 inches (10 cm) from tomato and tobacco plants, implying that these sounds could be detected by some organisms from up to several feet (meters) away.

https://www.sci.news/biology/plants-ultrasonic-clicks-07895.html

[-] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

Your move, vegans

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Been waiting 17 years to pull that out, lol. Perfect.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

CARROTS CAINT FIGHT BACK

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Pineapples dissolve your mouth. Anything with capsaicin is non verbally asking you not to eat it.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

They can also fight you.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/this-machete-is-controlled-by-a-plant-yielding-robotic-arm

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Oh good. I was worried they were defenseless.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago

Plants talk? As in rustle with movement or communicate through sound? Can plants hear? The world is amazing, I’ll be on Wikipedia for a few.

[-] [email protected] 96 points 10 months ago

There are high frequency sounds that they emit when they experience certain stimuli, for example when not having enough water or leaves being torn. As far as I know some other plants or insects might be evolutionarily tuned to recognize those sounds and react to them. So yes, in a way plants can talk.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

does that mean cats hear house plants scream while they are chewing on their leaves

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

It's why they do it!

I'm not a cat or a plant scientist.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

This is what happens when you get too high and Dr Dog - Listening In is playing

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

That's actually the first time I've seen Dr Dog referenced in the wild (outside of Pat Finnerty's channel.)

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

How do we know that sound signals recorded aren’t just from the release of biomolecules? Using the nervous system to produce sound is a more intentional process than the release of biomolecules for chemical signaling, which is something even simple multicellular organism do

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

You're right that it doesn't have to be talking. But it is a sound cats and dogs can hear. They do hear the plant noise, which is cool.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's cool to us.

I can absolutely confirm that neither cats nor dogs particularly enjoy hearing multiple frequencies in that range, as I use ultrasonic noisemakers to train dogs and cats. Both species have had specific individuals that reacted as though I had just beaten them, and all the individuals of both species reacted in such a way that it was clear that they would do just about anything to never hear those noises again.

That being said, I wonder if they could hear that frequency all the time and were freaked out that a human was shouting in plant language.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The unpleasant reaction could be to the shape of the sound rather than just the frequency. Like a sin wave isn't a pleasant sound, though it's not bad at lower amplitudes.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

"I can hear the innermost thoughts of plants" - yup, sounds crazy to me! (Therefore let's do it - make it happen!:-)

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Is it possible to record those higher frequencies and then turn them down so I can hear how noisy it is for my dog at home?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Probably. If astronomers can convert the radio noise stars make into audible sound - and they can - then I don't see why we couldn't pitch adjust background noise to human-audible levels.