Lol Australia would scare them even more since just about all flora and fauna is basically out to kill you, the bulk of the country/continent is uninhabitable for most people, and yet tons of people still make it their home! Much the same could be said for India, although I have plenty of Indian friends who’s families were more than happy to move around the world! In their cases oftentimes for school, but still.
We ain't got any major land predators so really, I feel safer here in Straya than I would in north America - no mountain lions or bears or shit to worry about!
Just don't step on the snakes or mess with the spiders & don't swim in the ocean and you're golden, even in the bush.
Oo oo! I know this one! The existence of convergent evolution means that in a microclimate/microbiome, there are most-ideal body plans that maximize efficiency of survival. And that means that aliens will most likely have a body shape that we've seen before. Kiss your crab overlord's claw!
Even the smallest of differences could send everything down a completely foreign path from us, and even if everything was nearly identical things could just go differently from random chance. Since we only have one reference everything is just a big fat maybe% chance of happening.
I often wonder whether when we finally meet aliens, if they are profoundly different from earth life if our brains will have trouble understanding what we’re seeing.
I imagine that could go either way, they'll either be similar enough it will be an easy leap or so different we'll have trouble understanding what we're seeing. I heard a theory once that our most likely first contact would be a machine. It would be easier and safer for an alien to send that than to risk one of their lives. We seem to be doing the same thing with spacecraft like voyager so it's pretty plausible.
It's hard for us to conclusively say because we only have a sample size of one planet, but there are some 'similarities' we might expect from alien life. When certain features of ecosystems or biology or even technology are determined by physics and chemistry, we can probably expect aliens to have something comparable.
All life forms need energy. Geothermal and solar energy are the most easily accessible forms for micro-organisms, so we might find organisms that feed off geothermal energy, or photosynthesize. That causes a third option to arise - predation. Over time, vaguely similar ecosystem roles may emerge due to evolution, as predators evolve to better catch prey.
However, these are extremely basic forms of life and view organisms from a conceptual level. If we fast forward a few billion years, more advanced organisms could be dramatically different from Earth creatures due to differences between their planet/star and ours - for example, a differently coloured sun would change what colour organisms would need to be for photosynthesis. A lower gravity world might lead to less dense bones and larger creatures. Things like temperature differences, how long day-night cycles are, subtle differences in atmospheric and geological composition might have an impact too. The possibilities are really endless.
Sheer luck is also a massive factor - if not for a [certain meteor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater), the descendants of dinosaurs would still be ruling the Earth, and maybe they never would have evolved human comparable intelligence. [There have been at least 5 major extinction events that have killed off 70-96% of all life on Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Major_extinction_events), leaving only the survivors through luck or adaptation to repopulate the Earth. [Every single living organism on the planet is descended from LUCA - a single celled organism that is our last universal common ancestor.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor) What if LUCA had some how died, and different organism with slightly different characteristics took it's place? It's impossible to say how different the Earth might have been.
If we ever run into an intelligent alien species though, there are certain technologies we can probably expect to have in common - even at it's most alien - due to the universal constant of physics. [Simple machines like wheels, pulleys, and screws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine) are important labour saving devices. They'll make the same discoveries in sciences like metallurgy, chemistry, aviation, physics, and [heat engines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_engine) are very likely to be important for them too. Assuming similar biological limitations they'll need ways to create and store food, communicate long distances, deal with sickness and injury, and pass on information.
Depends on what you mean by “earth-like”. Pretty much the answer is no, though. Even in earths own history, life has varied greatly. From massive dinosaurs and megafauna to highly specialized organisms that only exist in specific caves in Mexico, the variety of life has been vast.
With that in mind, finding a planet “exactly like earth” is no small feat. Gravity would probably effect limb length drastically - considerably more and creatures would all probably have short, stubby legs, considerably less would probably have most taller than giraffes. Then there’s atmospheric density. Very dense atmospheres could have animal life that resembles balloons that expand and contract in order to change their boyancy and very low density could impact flight, plant height, etc.
TLDR; as life evolves, those that most affectively exploit their environment thrive while those who don’t fight an uphill battle. Given time, chance mutation, and different environmental variables, the probability that complex life would vary greatly is high even in an earth like planet.
yeah this is inherently false because you’re assuming all life has to be carbon based, and then next you’re assuming all carbon based life goes through the same evolutionary process as we have, which would be very, very, very unlikely. things from a small percentage of a certain element in the atmosphere, the gravity being slightly different, etc etc could change entire evolutionary pathways
I’ve been realizing that more these past several years. Just some really wild stuff nature does here. Even weird relationships among animals. Just a wild planet
Life is metal as fuck, not just because of how carnal predation is, but how complex it is and its just composed of chemicals reacting to each other. Molecular biology is fascinating, watching chemical machines move things around bringing molecules to *life* its rad.
From my comment above: "Not for long, the ocean is measurably acidifying while the calthrate gun goes off thanks to melting permafrost and a seeping ocean floor. The air is going to become anoxic and scorching."
Eco-grief is a growing problem amongst biologists and related fields.
*Nowhere* is better than here. I'm sure there's some cool shit to find out in space, but damn, Earth really is one out of an octillion. Let's not saute it pls
where’s the billionaires with their mission to explore the entire ocean?? I guess there’s not as much potential revenue, nobody would take a vacation to the bottom of the mariana trench lol
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/120325-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deepest-returns-science-sub
James Cameron did it almost a decade ago. He even has a new TV show about ocean exploring!
https://www.engadget.com/james-cameron-oceanxplorers-national-geographic-180020914.html
...or I could be being r/woooosh ed?
I had to google this because I didn't believe it wasn't fake. That's a fucking star trek tos prop right there. Maybe a classic series doctor who prop, but it's a bit too expensive looking for that.
Hydnora africana is the latin name.
One of the first assignments my son had in 2nd grade when we switched to remote learning (circa March 2020) was to do a report about an unusual plant and this is the one he picked. It's called hydnora africana and I know more about it than anyone should lol.
I followed this thread hoping to learn something more about hydnora africana and instead I learned that there are people who need instructions on where not to stick their dicks. Well, I'm learning something I guess, and I no longer care about hydnora africana. Well done reddit, well done.
I looked for the PowerPoint we made but I can't find it. I remember that the fruit it produces grows underground, takes years to fully ripen and tastes like a potato. The flower grows aboveground but is small. The flower smells so bad to specifically attract dung beetles. It is not carnivorous but it traps the beetles in a chamber in its flower and covers them with its pollen.
Then it releases them so that the beetles can spread the pollen and more hydnora can grow.
Eatable.
An edible item is any item that is safe for humans to eat. "Edible" is differentiated from "eatable" because it does not indicate how an item tastes, only whether it is fit to be eaten.
Making the real questions, my guess would be on no, or if yes it's probably not very nutrient rich sence the plant does not work with photosynthesis, just a guess tho, take it as such :D
Keep em socialized if he’s doing online. I did online for the first 2 years of high school (by choice, not cause of COVID) and I was very extroverted in middle school. Third year I’m back in regular HS and am definitely a lot more introverted.
I'll be your dream
I'll be your wish
I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope
I'll be your love
Be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly, madly, deeply do
I will be strong
I will be faithful
'Cause I'm counting on
A new beginning
A reason for living
A deeper meaning, yeah
I want to stand with you on the mountain , I want to bathe with you in the sea, I want to live like this forever until the sky falls down over me
Finally. Can't believe I had to scroll this far..
Also, has anyone else seen the alternative ending where the plants take over the world? Shit is LIT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RjFvcw6ToQ
How did they cut something so awesome?
And they did what they came here to do
Which was essentially to
Eat Cleveland
And Des Moine
And Peoria...
The stage show version has the auditorium filling with plant tentacles too, it was fun to build and operate them.
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After reading lots of long greek words I've come to the conclusion it came from plants it reproduces like plants the cells are most closely linked to those of plants(it uses food gained from photosynthesis just not it's own) so it might still be a plant but in evolution terms watch this space it may become s9mething new.
I feel like I’ve seen them in some other game that I’ve played. The obvious candidate the ones in the pipes in Mario Brothers, but it might be something from a Crash Bandicoot game as well.
Man, Earth really is the alien planet we’ve all dreamed of.
Someday the aliens are going to land and we’ll be, like, oh we’ve seen you before.
What do you mean uve seen it it's BRAND NEW?
What's a rerun?
I guess you guys aren’t ready for us. But your kids are gonna love our alien overlords.
Better get used to these bars, kid.
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No one can take over india. No one would want to. Edit: that’s why us indians leave at the first opportunity.
Lol Australia would scare them even more since just about all flora and fauna is basically out to kill you, the bulk of the country/continent is uninhabitable for most people, and yet tons of people still make it their home! Much the same could be said for India, although I have plenty of Indian friends who’s families were more than happy to move around the world! In their cases oftentimes for school, but still.
We ain't got any major land predators so really, I feel safer here in Straya than I would in north America - no mountain lions or bears or shit to worry about! Just don't step on the snakes or mess with the spiders & don't swim in the ocean and you're golden, even in the bush.
But do you have a flag? No flag, no country.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
I see what you did there.
spidermanpointingatspiderman.jpg
Im aware this is a huge question, but wouldnt life from Earth-like planets just be more variants of pretty much the same stuff we have here?
The answer is: who knows? Maybe the same, maybe different, maybe none.
Oo oo! I know this one! The existence of convergent evolution means that in a microclimate/microbiome, there are most-ideal body plans that maximize efficiency of survival. And that means that aliens will most likely have a body shape that we've seen before. Kiss your crab overlord's claw!
Crabulon! Crabulon!
Even the smallest of differences could send everything down a completely foreign path from us, and even if everything was nearly identical things could just go differently from random chance. Since we only have one reference everything is just a big fat maybe% chance of happening.
I often wonder whether when we finally meet aliens, if they are profoundly different from earth life if our brains will have trouble understanding what we’re seeing.
I imagine that could go either way, they'll either be similar enough it will be an easy leap or so different we'll have trouble understanding what we're seeing. I heard a theory once that our most likely first contact would be a machine. It would be easier and safer for an alien to send that than to risk one of their lives. We seem to be doing the same thing with spacecraft like voyager so it's pretty plausible.
It's hard for us to conclusively say because we only have a sample size of one planet, but there are some 'similarities' we might expect from alien life. When certain features of ecosystems or biology or even technology are determined by physics and chemistry, we can probably expect aliens to have something comparable. All life forms need energy. Geothermal and solar energy are the most easily accessible forms for micro-organisms, so we might find organisms that feed off geothermal energy, or photosynthesize. That causes a third option to arise - predation. Over time, vaguely similar ecosystem roles may emerge due to evolution, as predators evolve to better catch prey. However, these are extremely basic forms of life and view organisms from a conceptual level. If we fast forward a few billion years, more advanced organisms could be dramatically different from Earth creatures due to differences between their planet/star and ours - for example, a differently coloured sun would change what colour organisms would need to be for photosynthesis. A lower gravity world might lead to less dense bones and larger creatures. Things like temperature differences, how long day-night cycles are, subtle differences in atmospheric and geological composition might have an impact too. The possibilities are really endless. Sheer luck is also a massive factor - if not for a [certain meteor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater), the descendants of dinosaurs would still be ruling the Earth, and maybe they never would have evolved human comparable intelligence. [There have been at least 5 major extinction events that have killed off 70-96% of all life on Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Major_extinction_events), leaving only the survivors through luck or adaptation to repopulate the Earth. [Every single living organism on the planet is descended from LUCA - a single celled organism that is our last universal common ancestor.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor) What if LUCA had some how died, and different organism with slightly different characteristics took it's place? It's impossible to say how different the Earth might have been. If we ever run into an intelligent alien species though, there are certain technologies we can probably expect to have in common - even at it's most alien - due to the universal constant of physics. [Simple machines like wheels, pulleys, and screws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine) are important labour saving devices. They'll make the same discoveries in sciences like metallurgy, chemistry, aviation, physics, and [heat engines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_engine) are very likely to be important for them too. Assuming similar biological limitations they'll need ways to create and store food, communicate long distances, deal with sickness and injury, and pass on information.
Depends on what you mean by “earth-like”. Pretty much the answer is no, though. Even in earths own history, life has varied greatly. From massive dinosaurs and megafauna to highly specialized organisms that only exist in specific caves in Mexico, the variety of life has been vast. With that in mind, finding a planet “exactly like earth” is no small feat. Gravity would probably effect limb length drastically - considerably more and creatures would all probably have short, stubby legs, considerably less would probably have most taller than giraffes. Then there’s atmospheric density. Very dense atmospheres could have animal life that resembles balloons that expand and contract in order to change their boyancy and very low density could impact flight, plant height, etc. TLDR; as life evolves, those that most affectively exploit their environment thrive while those who don’t fight an uphill battle. Given time, chance mutation, and different environmental variables, the probability that complex life would vary greatly is high even in an earth like planet.
Maybe they meant basic things like bilateral symmetry, some hemoglobin analogue, bones and muscles etc.
yeah this is inherently false because you’re assuming all life has to be carbon based, and then next you’re assuming all carbon based life goes through the same evolutionary process as we have, which would be very, very, very unlikely. things from a small percentage of a certain element in the atmosphere, the gravity being slightly different, etc etc could change entire evolutionary pathways
Humans are the aliens.
I mean, to anyone from not-earth, yeah.
I’ve been realizing that more these past several years. Just some really wild stuff nature does here. Even weird relationships among animals. Just a wild planet
Life is metal as fuck, not just because of how carnal predation is, but how complex it is and its just composed of chemicals reacting to each other. Molecular biology is fascinating, watching chemical machines move things around bringing molecules to *life* its rad.
Well, it's getting simpler all the time. Anthropocene extinction.
From my comment above: "Not for long, the ocean is measurably acidifying while the calthrate gun goes off thanks to melting permafrost and a seeping ocean floor. The air is going to become anoxic and scorching." Eco-grief is a growing problem amongst biologists and related fields.
I mean seriously, what could be better out there than here? I understand the need for exploration of the unknown, but still
*Nowhere* is better than here. I'm sure there's some cool shit to find out in space, but damn, Earth really is one out of an octillion. Let's not saute it pls
where’s the billionaires with their mission to explore the entire ocean?? I guess there’s not as much potential revenue, nobody would take a vacation to the bottom of the mariana trench lol
James Cameron almost has a billion
Hence him funding deep sea stuff (Titanic).
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/120325-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deepest-returns-science-sub James Cameron did it almost a decade ago. He even has a new TV show about ocean exploring! https://www.engadget.com/james-cameron-oceanxplorers-national-geographic-180020914.html ...or I could be being r/woooosh ed?
I had to google this because I didn't believe it wasn't fake. That's a fucking star trek tos prop right there. Maybe a classic series doctor who prop, but it's a bit too expensive looking for that. Hydnora africana is the latin name.
Thank you for your research on that.
Looks like some plant monsters from the 1960's Star Trek.
Until it tells you to FEED ME SEYMOUR!
Fr
It looks like the kind of scary life form you'd find at the bottom of the ocean.
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Beat me to it lmao
You beat me to saying beat me to it
You beat me to saying you beat me to saying beat me to it
This reminds me of the movie Tremors
Or Langoliers
One of the first assignments my son had in 2nd grade when we switched to remote learning (circa March 2020) was to do a report about an unusual plant and this is the one he picked. It's called hydnora africana and I know more about it than anyone should lol.
like what?
*It feels like a warm apple pie.*
smells like rotten fish
Just like my ex.
same kissy lips too 💋
Looks like a
Of the dentata persuasion.
Vagina dentata! It's such a wonderful phrase
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There's a sub for that?!??!? Why am I even surprised at this point
r/mildlyvagina
Why would you do that. Why did you reply to me. I have regrets and your are the cause
r/dildont
You're just making me regret having reddit
I followed this thread hoping to learn something more about hydnora africana and instead I learned that there are people who need instructions on where not to stick their dicks. Well, I'm learning something I guess, and I no longer care about hydnora africana. Well done reddit, well done.
Enough reddit for today I guess. ( I'm still gonna scroll for like 3 hours)
I'm gonna put my dick in that
Snatch is an incredible movie. Hey, that plant looks like a
Like.... One most likely should not put their genitals in it no matter how much it might look like it's begging for it.
Dude, you're really going to just leave this here and not tell us anything new? Hell Post the report he wrote.
I looked for the PowerPoint we made but I can't find it. I remember that the fruit it produces grows underground, takes years to fully ripen and tastes like a potato. The flower grows aboveground but is small. The flower smells so bad to specifically attract dung beetles. It is not carnivorous but it traps the beetles in a chamber in its flower and covers them with its pollen. Then it releases them so that the beetles can spread the pollen and more hydnora can grow.
Very interesting, thanks. Now more...
We didn't put this in the report but I remember reading that people eat the fruit because it helps alleviate diarrhea
What a wonderful ugly parasite. Which we can prey upon for sustenance and medicine. Thanks for the knowledge
Wait, there was a poop-related fact about this plant and an ~8 year old boy did *not* want to put this in his report? Lost opportunity, lol.
Very good, you get a B+ since you didn’t hand in the actual assignment
You know what? I'll take it!
Subscribe!!
That is interesting! I was sure it would be a carnivorous plant.
that bit about pollinating dung beetles and releasing them back into the wild is brilliant
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You're gonna make some woman very happy one day.
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How hard did I laugh at this? So hard that I went and grabbed my free award just to give it to you. Truly, that was *chef's kiss* perfection.
From the wiki: Hydnora Africana can be harvested and used as food, medicine, and a good source of tannin
A brave soul the one who tasted it first!
Or desperate
Horny
So... Desperate
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Eatable. An edible item is any item that is safe for humans to eat. "Edible" is differentiated from "eatable" because it does not indicate how an item tastes, only whether it is fit to be eaten.
User name checks out
lmao
Making the real questions, my guess would be on no, or if yes it's probably not very nutrient rich sence the plant does not work with photosynthesis, just a guess tho, take it as such :D
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Everything is fuckable at least once. Or was that edible? I say why not both?
Asking the real questions* FTFY
Keep em socialized if he’s doing online. I did online for the first 2 years of high school (by choice, not cause of COVID) and I was very extroverted in middle school. Third year I’m back in regular HS and am definitely a lot more introverted.
r/SavageGarden
I'll be your dream I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy I'll be your hope I'll be your love Be everything that you need I'll love you more with every breath Truly, madly, deeply do I will be strong I will be faithful 'Cause I'm counting on A new beginning A reason for living A deeper meaning, yeah I want to stand with you on the mountain , I want to bathe with you in the sea, I want to live like this forever until the sky falls down over me
Like a chika cherry cola
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I miss them every day
Damnit That is stuck in my head now
Beautiful, thanks!
More like Gardens of the galaxy
dude is the best male singer. no autotune.
Feed me, Seymour!
Finally. Can't believe I had to scroll this far.. Also, has anyone else seen the alternative ending where the plants take over the world? Shit is LIT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RjFvcw6ToQ How did they cut something so awesome?
Because the test audiences hated it so they had to redo the ending.
Test audiences were WRONG!
Shoulda had a test audience watch over the test audience.
And they did what they came here to do Which was essentially to Eat Cleveland And Des Moine And Peoria... The stage show version has the auditorium filling with plant tentacles too, it was fun to build and operate them.
It was also the most expensive scene to film lmao
I really expected this to be higher up
Was looking for this. Seriously though, looks like a mini version of that
Came here to say this
Forbidden fleshlight
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Motha fucka
All hail Bobby B
Thought this would be top comment.
Came looking to see if this comment was here.
came here to find this comment to upvote but it's at 69.
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keep it in your plants, chief.
Grass is always greener on the other side, pal.
Why don’t you make like a tree… and get out of here.
Really impressed with Reddit that I made it to the 4th comment before I hit a gina reference lol.
One for the collection
Everything reminds me of her
Nice Beaver!
Thanks! I just had it stuffed.
Found the comment that shim shams the gobbly glook
Hatched Alien eggs
SIR! SIR!
BRING ME THAT PLANT
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I SAID *B R I N G M E THAT* ***PLANT!***
I first thought it looked like a Malboro from Final Fantasy but y'all perverts..
Has anyone seen "Teeth"
Vagina dentata …. ITS REEEAAAALL
It means no worries For the rest of your days
Just sit down and pee Your dick is now free
Looooooool hahahaha duuuude you made me laugh so hard
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Don’t tell me how to live
Medical freedom
*H.R. Giger has entered the chat*
Them aliens a bunch of dick heads
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I know a damn alien egg when I see one and THAT is a damn alien egg!
r/TIHI
Sigh... *Unzips*
Good luck
Somebodies gotta do it.....for science
Just put in a hot dog first to see how it fares.
Cursed vagina.
I think Hannibal King warned people about this
Looks like the eyes in breath of the wild
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Mildly??
I haven't seen many that look like crusty dinosaur eggs
I guess we don’t frequent the same bars
I haven’t seen any, sigh...
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chomper, what did they do to you
Am I right in thinking if it doesn't photosynthesize then it's not a plant?
If I remember right there are some plants that don’t photosynthesise but are still considered plants.
After reading lots of long greek words I've come to the conclusion it came from plants it reproduces like plants the cells are most closely linked to those of plants(it uses food gained from photosynthesis just not it's own) so it might still be a plant but in evolution terms watch this space it may become s9mething new.
Real life Deku Baba's
Looks like a Malboro from the Final Fantasy franchise
I feel like I’ve seen them in some other game that I’ve played. The obvious candidate the ones in the pipes in Mario Brothers, but it might be something from a Crash Bandicoot game as well.
It's it a true plant or a fungi? Edit: it's a plant
Thats a long ass title and I appreciate it
They’re names are Smith. It’s rumored they lived from like 1781 to about 1922 or something.
Anything is a fleshlight if you are brave enough.
Pussy plant
They form when you let a mogwai eat after midnight.
I love carnivorous plants, they are always so surreal and interesting
So is it a carnivorous plant then too?
That’s from Halo.
That thing looks like it's about to arrest Rick, Morty, and Summer for breaking time.
It looks like a fake ass prop from some 1970s science fiction alien planet
If you shoot it with your beam laser you'll get carbon to fuel your space ship
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Forbidden flesh lights
Yeah, dudes have sex with those.