Could plants/trees be an evil alien species that came to earth and made us dependent on them ?

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• AmidFuror@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plants don't appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.

  *The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences

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• pacology@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If we want to believe the evil alien theory, viruses might actually fit the bill better than plants, with fungi as a possible unlikely second.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is one type of virus that you can not convince me isn’t some kind of mechanical device. Other viruses and bacteria look organic; but bacteriophage look straight up like man-made robots.

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  • magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is by far my favorite answer.

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• smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’d need to explain how they’re evil. We use them as a resource, as food, as an oxygen source, as shade, as animal habitat and food… even if they had “evil” intentions I don’t see what they would have been or how it wood have played out.

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• gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  *hits blunt*

  Well trees can communicate through their roots right? So what if clusters of trees act as one big brain either each tree being like a cluster of neurons, and they are more intelligent than even us, but work in such different ways and slower timescales than us that thye don’t seem intelligent to us. And we’re like parasites that they can’t do anything about that gradually destroy them… or something

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• Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No we share a huge amount of DNA with plants indicating common ancestry.

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It goes deeper than that. We’re fighting the war between chlorophyll and mitochondria.

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