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News & ArtsThursday, December 13, 2012
Science The Most Beautiful Science Story You Will Read Today
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:10 AM
Tropical montane cloud forest trees use more than their roots to take up water. They also drink water from clouds directly through their leaves, University of California, Berkeley, scientists have discovered.Roots drawing water from mud is not as elegant as leaves absorbing water from surrounding clouds. The former is like fucking; the latter is like kissing.
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Yeah.... because root is never a euphemism for male genitalia and what the root penetrates would be a far stretch from the female. But perhaps you're right... maybe it's a homosexual tree.
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Charles, Of everything I have ever read of yours, I like that post the most.
@6 - Funny, no female parts, reproductive or otherwise came to mind as I read that line. I think that you are grasping too hard.
@6 - Funny, no female parts, reproductive or otherwise came to mind as I read that line. I think that you are grasping too hard.
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Anthropomorphic analogies are rather pointless here. Why? Who cares? We have to gain empathetic understandings of alien ways of doing things in order to truly appreciate them, not always translate them into human methods.
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@6 I think you're seeing things that aren't there. I don't read anything that implies sex (as in gender) of the roots or the mud.
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There have been a number of announcements of new "dew catcher" technologies that can collect drinking water from humidity.
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Your casual misogyny of equating the female reproductive system with a mudhole is a new "high" for yourself, Charles.
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Roots in mud is at least as elegant as fucking.
1) Plants can release compounds that inhibit the growth of competing vegetation;
2) Plant roots in intimate association with fungal mycorrhizae can exchange nutrients for mutual benefit;
3) Plant roots exert a wide range of effects on the surrounding soil microbial community.
—and that's just for starters. Try any of those with your johnson.
1) Plants can release compounds that inhibit the growth of competing vegetation;
2) Plant roots in intimate association with fungal mycorrhizae can exchange nutrients for mutual benefit;
3) Plant roots exert a wide range of effects on the surrounding soil microbial community.
—and that's just for starters. Try any of those with your johnson.
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I have a fantasy. A fantasy about a special gun. One that violently and totally blows away and obliterates all the pieces of my brain that have been unwittingly exposed to Charles' posts while leaving the rest of me intact and better than before. I could use that gun right now.
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Coastal fog is how the redwoods are able to grow so tall. They wouldn't be able to consistently get enough H2O up to the tops of the trees otherwise.
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