Atmospheric Slapping Tournament

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• ToffeeIsForClosers@piefed.ca ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Exactly! I’ve said this for years, every time the meme comes up. I’m saying it right now to anyone nearby.

  I mean, I have no real basis to know if canopy friction is the reason or not but I’m saving this post as support of my confirmation bias anyway.

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  • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Apparently that’s the leading theory, but another is just that for reasons I am absolutely unqualified to explain, they sense light in specific ways that causes them to grow differently once they get close enough to another tree blocking some of the light there.

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    • ToffeeIsForClosers@piefed.ca ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Like a houseplant angling toward the window light?

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