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Clever plants chat over their own network

physorg.com — Recent research reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting to be cut off or eaten up. Many plants form internal communications networks and are able to exchange information efficiently.

Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 26, 2007

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  • FreakyD, on 10/10/2007, -2/+108I heard about this through the grapevine a while back
  • DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -3/+89hay some1 eatin me bbl
  • Puppetfunk, on 10/10/2007, -9/+88During harvest season:


    Cornking has entered the room


    t3hcorn: OH NOES!!!!!!!

    t3hcorn has left the room

    C0rn: NO!!!!!

    C0rn has left the room

    Notpoppedyet: LOL FAGGETS.....NOOOOOSSSS!!!!!

    Notpoppedyet has left the room

    Corm: Meh leeves!!!

    Corm has left the room
  • PurpZeY, on 10/10/2007, -5/+56Thank god! When my ganja plants grew buds and I heard them talking about The Matrix -- I thought I was just really high.
  • Cloned, on 10/10/2007, -3/+51Looks like vegetarians might have to resort to starving themselves.
  • omegadude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+43they called me crazy, but i always knew i could hear my plants LOLing...
  • Aupajo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+42"Many plants form internal communications networks and are able to exchange information efficiently."

    Proving once again that nature > myspace
  • whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+41I'd assume this. Plants are crazy *****. PETA is killing some great organisms.
  • allaboutdatiki, on 10/10/2007, -0/+35Running bamboo is a great example of a crazy interconnected network plant ... the root systems are monsters. It's amazing to watch the leaves curl and uncurl due to the lack or abundance of water. When thinning stalks, it's possible to actually hear and see the leaves as they curl. I freaked the first time I heard it ...
  • ogore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+35What do I eat now?
  • DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37Everything > MySpace
  • benguild, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31Faceplant.
  • ClOlD, on 10/13/2007, -1/+31Connection reset by farmer.
  • thesio, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29the caterpillars are coming!
  • barbobot, on 10/13/2007, -0/+25"I'm a fourth-level vegetarian. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow."
  • ryanvsrobots, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22this is why i became a breathatarian
  • Audacitor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22This just in: Rocks can communicate using telepathy. Examples of usage include plotting the death of passersby by coordinating avalanches, and discussing the consistency of squirrel droppings!
  • Audacitor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Nothing is also > MySpace
  • SecretPact, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Plants can communicate with each other!?

    It begins...
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Nahh.. Mcdonalds still doesn't use meat or plants.
  • probrian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18rocks?
  • nairbil, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19DandyLion: ...
    DandyLion: I take off my robe and wizards hat...
  • chyya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15all this time we were worried about dolphins outsmarting humans. little did we know the broccoli was planning to destroy the human race all along
  • SenorCardgage74, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15I want this to be true sooooo bad, so that I can ***** with vegetarians.
  • Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15it's a holocaust on your plate...a holocaust of vegetables. I recommend PETA folk stop murdering plants and become Breatharians.
  • Audacitor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Why you ungrateful little prick!
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15Rose: I just love you. You know that my little clover?

    4Leaf4You: you smell nice

    Rose: Ooh. keep it up and u just might get lucky tee hee

    DandyLion entered the room.

    DandyLion: hey rose. want to pollenate?

    4leaf4you: back off bitch shes mine
  • ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I long ago knew that plants had nervous systems, I just didn't know they could communicate through their root systems. Now I can only eat stuff that dies of natural causes or falls off a tree...still, lunchtime is a bit of an adventure.
  • afruff23, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Idiocracy anyone?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Nothing new here! Peyote users have known this for a looooooooooooooong time.
  • ellecon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8 My God, I'm a monster! All those salads, the dead houseplants, the living butter lettuce I tried...don't look at me!
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8hah, yeah. I talk to my plants, take really good care of them. Only grow a few, and give them lots of attention. They yield wonderful pot.
  • Slackdragon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I'm going to have to start subsisting off of vegans.
  • colto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7lmfao
  • transitive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6truly the only moral course of action for a PETA member is to learn how to feed directly from inanimate resources such as sun, air, and earth.
  • toastmonster, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I'd love to believe that, but the article is short on facts and rife with unsubstantiated bollocks
  • suprxtragrav, on 12/09/2008, -1/+6they are plotting to overthrow thier human overlords... starting with that little old lady down the block who grows those plants on her window ledge.


    I for one, welcome our new plant overlords.
  • bubba9999, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5If they really cared about the environment, they'd kill themselves so they'd stop consuming it and start giving back to it.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Some of us have become photosynthetharians.
  • DarkPrincess74, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5hmmm this gives me an idea...MyPlants or should it be Plantster?
  • Millsee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Hang on a minute! Has this got something to do with the Bush administration?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Did you hear that? It's the sound of millions of vegetarian's self righteous halos hitting the ground all at once.
  • ripple123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I tell my BLT sandwich "scream all you want, no ones gonna hear"
  • colto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I hope that wasn't a joke. It sounded a little corny to me.
    /ducks
  • transitive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5McDonalds uses predominantly 1 plant in almost all of their products: corn. This includes the meat as well, by the way. The cows and chickens are fed on corn. The fries are fried in corn oil, and by caloric content are more corn based then potato based. The soda and deserts are mostly made from high fructose corn syrup. Radio-spectrometry done on McDonalds food products has shown that upwards of 70% of the carbon atoms in their food has the characteristic isotope ratio of carbon fixed by corn plants.
  • vidar808, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Too bad they still can't run away.
  • RumblePen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"Hey everybody, forest fire! Quick, everybody lean to the East."
    Thanks for the communication skills evolution, now how about some ***** legs?
  • TaylorSmythe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This article was remarkably ***** written and made me suspect the credibility immediately. Thanks for corroborating with my suspicion!
  • slimfox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Tell them to grow more buds.
  • ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You can ***** with vegetarians anyways. What are they going to do, fight back?
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