Aliens would extract out bile and earwax.
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ShortFuse@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 minutes ago
My previous bodily fluids!!
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 1 minute ago
Rain water and grain alcohol for me
Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
Nettle tea is also great!
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Sooo actually why land mammals can’t filter out salt from seawater?
Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
Actually if you are on a raft with a limited amount of fresh water, you can mix in some sea water to stretch it out a bit. I think if you use a third seawater its ok, but don’t quote me on that.
Deepus@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
Erm, if im on a raft im gonna be quoting you so you better be right.
SteveXVII@pawb.social 2 hours ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
Funnily enough we try to cultivate everything we like, so in a roundabout way they were successful.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 minutes ago
I guess… If you consider factory farmed chickens to be “successful.”
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I think the book Sapiens makes the point that wheat has trained us into cultivating it for selfish needs.
(Except that it’s wheat, and that we annihilated 99% of its brethren to pick out the one that we liked so we could effectively clone it. But yes, we are the slaves…)
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sapiens and Homo Deus are both such good books. Lots of little anecdotes like that we’re just so fascinating.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I think that’s basically what The Botany of Desire is about, right?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Nicotine, THC, and cocaine are also insecticides. And psilocybin might be an insect repellent.
Thanks poison!
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Drugs - natures mosquito repellant
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mosquitoes are such squares!
rooroo@feddit.org 1 day ago
So that’s the reason I’m not stung as badly as my friends!
SuperIce@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Capsaicin is a fungicide, which is extremely useful in the environments where spicy peppers grow.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The best bit about the mint and chocolate thing is that chocolate is also poison, so we spice up our poison with more poison.
Reggie@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
All valid Points. But also, humans: i will care for this plant and create huge fields where you can live prosper and in peace. We kill everything who comes near you and try to harm you. And we will ensure you will live forever. You dont need birds who shit your seeds out.
Those plants domesticared us!
MBM@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Also humans: we will breed you until your fruit no longer bears seed, because we decide when and how you reproduce
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Sidenote: monocultures are devastating, long-term.
bamfic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Botany of desire
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Would aliens actually be weirded out by this quality of humans?
I feel like any sufficiently intelligent species living on a planet will have some degree of biodiversity on said planet. And the chances of something being made to be a poison/deterrent for creatures other than the intelligent species is probably a large one, because it’s pretty hard for plants and animals to make a poison/deterrent that kills everything without also killing itself. So if there is a gap for itself, there is a gap for other life to coexist with the toxin.
So I’d think it would be pretty natural for intelligent life to eat things that are harmful to huge swaths of other creatures.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
Works best with the Earth-is-a-deathworld trope
bluewing@lemm.ee 21 minutes ago
Level 12 Deathworld.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It is kinda weird that humans are so resilient to so many things though. It’s part of being scavenging omnivores, but alients with a more specialized diet might be weirded out.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dogs can eat rotting meat and lick unwashed balls and ass but die from fucking grapes. 🤷🏼♂️
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Potentially. But think of it this way, there are somewhere around 400,000 plant species out there.
news.mongabay.com/…/many-plants-world-scientists-…
Based on this list, something on the order of like 99.5% of plants are either not safe, or not useful/beneficial. If other species on our planet share a similar rate without complete overlap, then it’s practically a guarantee that there will be thousands of plants that are safe and useful for us but not for other species. That doesn’t feel particularly strange or unlikely. So even with a specialized diet, I don’t think the numbers would be much different.
It also could be the case that being scavenging omnivores is a strong precursor to becoming intelligent. If your species is on the rise in terms of intelligence, you’re probably using that to expand your food sources wide and far.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
For mammals we are, sure, but there’s loads of things that’d kill humans that other animals chow down on perfectly happily, especially when it comes to microorganisms, mushrooms and the rotting things they’re often found in/around
I don’t think scavenging is right also given that, humans used to mainly pick fresh fruits and persistence hunt, both of which are very fresh food which is not overlooked or left by others
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know it’s just a typo, but the image “alients” conjured in my head is pretty funny. I have less than zero artistic talent or I’d share it with you all. Hopefully the mental image is enough.
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If we were the aliens and came across two worlds inhabited by intelligent life I would probably be more weirded out by the one where nobody uses any mind altering substance like caffeine that are poisonous to other animals.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Rhubarb: most of me is poison. The rest of me is kind of bitter.
Humans: Hold my pie crust.
Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
Rhubarb crumble is legitimately delicious though.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Don’t get me wrong, I love rhubarb. But whoever first figured out it was edible must have been desperate.
Skydancer@pawb.social 3 hours ago
Polk salet, anybody?
cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Basically humans will have sex with you, eat you, or make you a pet.
Sometimes more than one.
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 1 day ago
Don’t forget we wear them also…
Phineaz@feddit.org 1 day ago
Tbf, this has proven to be extremely effective: Just think of how many tobacco or chili plants are grown today! Domestication really is a two-way-street
Speiser0@feddit.org 34 minutes ago
I do would like to be an alien’s pet.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Are we farming the plants or are the plants farming us.
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t forget…
Yeast: oh man I love sugars so much, I just wish they didn’t make me shit so bad.
Humans: dude this stuff is fucking awesome!
psud@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
Yeast in sugar is going: I’ll just convert this to poison (ethanol) to keep everything away, then whenever I’m hungry I’ll break that poison into acid
Humans: hold my… Wait a minute let’s make beer!
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Somerimes, when a fruit or seed isn’t toxic enough for our taste, we make it liquid then make it ferment or age until some of it’s sugar turns into the deliciously neurotoxic ethanol.
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
“Hmm tastes good but could taste a bit closer to death.”
MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
I evolutionary terms being edible to humans is quite useful.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It worked for chickens…
MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
Chickens are the most numerous bird on the planet, wheat covers more land area than any other plant.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Doubt. Look what will happen with our bred plants and animals, if humans aren’t around anymore.
TheChemist@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Because humans feel encouraged to further protect that plant against pests.
MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
As well as spreading and planting seeds, clearing competing plants, and providing water and nutrients.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TBF, life’s objective is to reproduce and keep its genetic materials continuing on. Even if humans propagate and consume said plant because they find it desirable, that is still a success for the plant. So even if it has toxic caffeine or fiery capsaicin to deter some pests and humans find it enjoyable, the plant wins.
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Especially since many of the plants die after 1 year anyway so it’s not even like we shorten their lives anyway.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 day ago
They just want to propagate. The best chance a plant has to do that is by being tasty to humans so we cultivate them.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Just imagine how many of these were first consumed on a drunken bet.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Caffeine is poisonous to us too. It’s generally not possible for a healthy person to drink enough coffee to die, but they sell pure caffeine (for research) and even seemingly small amounts of that will kill a person.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 1 day ago
You can buy 200mg pure anhydrous caffeine pills at Walmart for like $5. It’s abundant and as safe as coffee if you don’t go nuts. The max daily recommended dose is 400mg, anything past that could cause harm
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
What I had in mind is more like this 25kg bucket.
I’ve never actually seen caffeine in a bucket myself, but I worked in a lab once that had a big plastic jar of it.
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is they plant that’s made into cocaine in this same category?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Listing the manufacturing steps needed to get cocaine from plant into a wall street trader nose is mind blowing
Step Chemicals Used Harvesting Coca Leaves N/A Soaking in Solvents Gasoline, Kerosene, Diesel Fuel, Water Alkaline Treatment Sodium Carbonate, Lime First Filtration N/A Acidification (Coca Paste) Sulfuric Acid Evaporation N/A Further Alkaline Treatment Ammonia, Sodium Bicarbonate Solvent Extraction Ether, Acetone, Kerosene Precipitation Hydrochloric Acid Oxidation (Purification) Potassium Permanganate Conversion to Cocaine HCl Hydrochloric Acid Drying N/A Cutting/Adulteration Baking Soda, Sugars, Levamisole, etc. FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
And that doesn’t say how many coca leaves it takes. Which is a whole shitload.
I once had coca leaf tea (mate de coca). Obviously a fraction of the strength of cocaine. I did not care for the taste, sort of like damp straw, but the effect was so much better than caffeine. Total alertness without a jittery feeling and it wears off after 3 or 4 hours.
Honestly, if they could do something about the taste, I’d find ways to import it.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Hot peppers anyone?
daddy32@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What does anyone have against “u”, fucking fuck?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Americans have been trying to eliminate the letter"u" for centuries.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Poppies kill things?
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 day ago
She looks so familiar, who is this? Is this from Veep?
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Colorado River toad:
Humanity: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Obligatory symbiosis is a sexy, sexy vehicle for propagation.
Nagarath@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Isn’t the flavour of cocoa also originally a pesticidal chemical lol
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
What’s the bottom imagine from?
Jumi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
HFY vibes
Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
People who have accidentally eaten death cap mushrooms (amanita phalloides for the autists out there) say that it’s fucking delicious (before their liver shuts down). Rabbits can eat them without problems. So if we use rabbit genes, we can crispr cas 9 our way to a good meal.
derpgon@programming.dev 25 minutes ago
Not sure if the article is legit, but there is hope for an antidote: scientificamerican.com/…/worlds-deadliest-mushroo…
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 minutes ago
I don’t think we even need to do that, just extract the poison shit from the mushrooms and eat them poisonless?
Or determine what chemical (or combination of chemicals) is causing the delicious flavor, isolate them, and then add them to tofu or some shit.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
Let’s gooo