“Appear to look like”…
I wonder what they look like if you manage to ignore the appearances.
Biomimicry
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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marcos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
My guess would be Yulan magnolia blossoms.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
“…how birds look like…”
Just one of many issues with the English here.
- what it looks like
- how it looks
You need to pick a lane.
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
I typically assume it’s a non-native speaker with things like this, but I’m not sure in this case.
Old_Fat_White_Guy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I too try to give the benefit of the doubt when reading stilted text that basically conveys the meaning but the syntax is janky.
I’m in southern Ohio so there are quite a few people from the hills and hollers around here.
Methany definitely talks exactly like how that is.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Did you understand what was being communicated? Yes? Congratulations!
Because, really, that’s generally all that’s necessary.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 months ago
MY PARSER BROKE
cinnamonTea@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I’d read this with commas around ‘like’, rather than with a period after it: “… how birds look, like, I’m afraid” works as a sentence while “… how birds look like. I’m afraid” is both wrong, Luke you point out, but also sounds much more serious than the jokey tone I’d expect from a message without punctuation and capitalization
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 8 months ago
We will never know what the tweet author intended lol
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
No one cares mate.
It’s fine to correct the grammar of children in your care, but not really in other circumstances.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Multi-track drifting
HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
No they’re asking how do birds look like the way they do. In which case the answer is that a bird’s body evolved to be streamlined and lightweight in order to fly more efficiently.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Animals are something plants invented to help spread their seeds around.
Tylix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Know what’s wild? For millions of years nothing around ate trees, so when a tree grew and died and fell it was permanently there because there was no rot. Which is how we got petrified forests.
bananabenana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
From my readings, I don’t think this is the case. Lignin degradation evolved rapidly with terrestrial plants. Coal and petrified wood is more due to geological events and swamps for example. Evolving ligninases is trivial for bacteria and fungi.
lorty@lemmygrad.ml 8 months ago
Isn’t that more because of the lack of fungi that could break down wood?
Neil@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Life in general is most likely something the universe invented to speed up entropy.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Life is a natural part of entropy for sure.
oce@jlai.lu 8 months ago
There’s a nice theory about how it looks like the goal is actually to produce photons more efficiently.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
#BirdsArentReal
kender242@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Please tell me there is a lemmy community for this
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
birdsarentreal@lemmy.world exists
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
The potatoes told them. (Potatoes have eyes)
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This is brilliant, thanks
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
More evidence birds aren’t real
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 8 months ago
The evidence is building, I can no longer deny
Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
MaryReadsBooks@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The lizard vine is a fake
Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The fruit is, but not the plant, scientific name: Tetrastigma voinieranum, common names: Chestnut Vine, Lizard Vine, Wild Grape
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 8 months ago
7heo@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Why are people so unfathomably dumb, like I’m afraid.
Floey@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah, some people can’t even recognize a joke.
7heo@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Right, anytime anyone fucks up it’s sarcasm, anytime anyone is dumb, it’s a joke, nothing is real, everything is a cake.
can@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
People don’t get the timescale of a evolutionary feature like this. And how long it was only kinda bird like.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it. But yeah either trolling or actually stupid who knows.
pooberbee@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I do wish that the personification of evolution wasn’t such a thing. People so often attribute reasoning or intention to the process, when there is no such thing.
grue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it.
LOL, how meta (“people haven’t evolved to understand evolution”).
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Annihilation vibes
PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I rewatched Annihilation recently. That fucking bear scene still haunts me. Great film.
FarFarAway@startrek.website 8 months ago
If you’re into books, it’s also the first book in the Southern Reach Trilogy. The movie was good, but the books really flesh out the situation. I was sad they didn’t continue the movies with the rest of the books.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Just looked it up and it seems like a movie me and my wife would love. I’m surprised I’ve never seen or heard of it… do you have any more movie recs?
potustheplant@feddit.nl 8 months ago
droning sounds intensify
Poogona@hexbear.net 8 months ago
That question below is honestly a good way to demonstrate how poor people can be at understanding what would be called materialism without it being explained to them first
Easy to assume the shape of that flower is due to decisions made by the plant itself instead of the more accurate way of understanding its shape being the result of external conditions and pressures acting upon the plant and its flower growth over a long time
Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What the fuck does that have to do with materialism?
Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Doesn’t this imply that the flower is polinated by bird cocks. Think about it a bird fucks one flower or starts to before realizing, and then later he fucks annother flower thus spreading the pollen of the first flower.
kromem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No, it just implies that it was adaptive to look like a bird.
It could be because aliens exist and years ago they were like “let’s screw up all the plants in this area for generations” until the leader’s kid saw one that kind of looked like little birds and threw themselves in front of it and said “wait, no, spare this one.”
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Most flighted birds don’t actually have functional penis (ducks are a notable exception). Both the males and females reproduce through their cloaca.
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Plus the first flower might feel a bit jealous if it finds out
ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How do you know it’s not a bird trying to look like a plant? Y’know to evade predators and all…
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What’s if it’s a bird-plant pretending to look like one of those plant-birds
maculata@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Does this fuckwit know what punctuation is?
mvirts@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Theyre watching us the-scientist.com/can-plants-see-in-the-wake-of-a…
Gladaed@feddit.de 8 months ago
There are plants that cam see, so you are rightly afraid.
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Still looks like a fake
Bobmighty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Looks fake as hell. I’d be more afraid of falling for stuff like this. Cute as a Photoshop challenge though
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I thought you were being too cynical because plenty of plants evolved this technique but then I realized because of AI I have absolutely no idea if they’re real or not, unless I spend time that I don’t have on researching it.
Bobmighty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Seems like it’s a touched up fake. The white duck head one is especially obvious. …stackexchange.com/…/does-the-yulan-magnolia-flow…
Hestia@hexbear.net 8 months ago
When a bird and a flower love each other very much…
xkforce@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They dont. It just happens that natural selection favored flowers that looked vaguely bird like and over time, flowers that looked more and more like a bird outcompeted the ones that looked less like one.
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What’s funny is how absurd this is. Most flowers don’t look like birds and they’re fine.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
This has nothing to do with natural selection. It’s just a coincidence that the buds very shortly and from a specific angle vaguely look like birds.
Most of the images shared are probably photoshopped to enhance the effect too.
Zink@pawb.social 8 months ago
It’s about tiny percents.
A bird will land on a flower.
A bird will not land on a bird.
So every one in a million time a bird mistakes a flower for a bird, that’s a flower that survives.
All you have to do is wait a couple million years for the odds to turn in the bird flower’s favor.
exocrinous@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Right, but what about the mimic plant? It mimicks whatever plant is near it. And it can mimic plastic plants. www.vox.com/…/plant-mimicry-boquila-trifoliolata
ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Should be a pretty trivial experiment to replicate