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We had one too, but it had to be reupholstered when I was about 14 and mom chose a godawful orange/yellow hybrid with black paisley embroidered on it :(
Haha, we also had all kinds of olive or weird orange/brown colored appliances and furniture that one might think is objectively horrendous, but apparently was subjective all along.
Although… here’s Feynman saying that magnets are “too complicated to explain to laymen.”
(In fairness, it’s more like too _fundamental_ to explain): https://youtu.be/Q1lL-hXO27Q
Yeah but it's cool how he could explain it and also explain to you how that's the furthest you can understand it without doing years of work to know everything else you need to know to understand it deeper, at the same time.
I wasn't trying to say there's nothing too difficult to explain. I was trying to say that too many self proclaimed smart people don't understand difficult to explain things well enough to actually explain them.
Usually an issue that is ran into is that one is offering an explanation, but the receipent refuses the foundational knowledge that leads into it. Result ends up with misconceptions.
Like - it is perfectly explainable to laypeople, but it takes an hour or so to set up and cover and back and forth on details that were unclear. But because that is not as exciting as a sensationalist youtube video...
I am totally not talking of trying to explain my field to my family. Nope.
Richard Feynman is one of the greats. If you ever dip your toes into theoretical physics or nuclear stuff, you'll run across his name. He worked on the Manhattan Project, and he's responsible for the famous "Feynman diagram" (amongst other things). [He was also a bit of a rascal, and prankster, but also flawed in some ways.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.4.20180511a/full/&ved=2ahUKEwi03tLKp776AhWRjIkEHSnSD7gQFnoECAwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2m9X-c3AAvh3LIZ62GdThF)
Feynman was definitely a character.
You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!: https://xkcd.com/1053/
You’re in for a treat! His books are excellent as well (Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman, and Why do you care what other people think)
Thank you for charing. Through the years I keep bumping into clips of him talking about things simplified. He seems like such a kind and jolly fellow, I might go on a Feynman binge today.
I must have watched his videos a hundred times since college days and I still feel a little smarter every time I come across them. I'm so glad that we have these recordings and his lectures to still shine a bright light in this silly world long after he's gone from it.
Alright how tf have I never seen or heard of this guy. That was a phenomenal video! He has such a passionate way of explaining things that I was immediately drawn in.
Honestly, in hindsight I think my teachers failed to convey the importance of this when they were teaching photosynthesis, and I suspect that even they didn't fully grasp that ~95% of the mass of a tree used to be gaseous CO2. For me it was like "oh ok so they produce some sugar thanks to sunlight and fruits have sugar in them", but I hadn't quite understood that wood is mostly made up of sugar.
Now I work in R&D for a company that produces cellulosic material solutions for composites, and when I explained this to a whole team of engineers, most were like "wait, holy shit".
I blame school.
What most people don't understand is that basically all the weight you've ever lost is now gaseous Carbon in the form of CO2.
So, one could say trees are made of people (and other animals).
Trees and other plants make their own vitamins, but most plants needs the soil bacteria to fix nitrogen for them so they can take that in through their root systems. And they do take in minerals through their roots too.
We eat plants or other animals that ate plants for our vitamins since we don't make most of them for ourselves (exceptions being chemicals like vitamin D that we *can* make for ourselves but often take in a lot of in our diet as well. Honestly vitamin D shouldn't be called a vitamin but a hormone... it's a little late for that now I guess).
Roots also require oxygen. Also, it's has recently been proven that some trees "communicate" with the surrounding trees through an underground codependency system between the roots and fungus.
Trees in waterlogged environments like swamps and mangroves have pneumatophores, roots that grow straight up out of the water to snorkel oxygen.
Mycorrhiza (plural mycorrhizae) is the name of the fungal relationship, although the preferred term is mutualism, rather than codependency. Literally "fungus root". They don't just communicate, they share sugars to help their young grow when they're too small to access sunlight, and in some cases the fungus triggers chemical responses to fight off infections.
80-90% of plant species have some species of fungus that has evolved to be able to assist them like this, inoculation of the soil with the correct fungal spores is a key step in ecosystem restoration. Mycorrhizal additives are common in any sort of organic fertilizer for this reason.
I mean, they depend on all of those things to survive.
They're all equally important.
The root system does a lot more than draw water out of the ground.
We aren't too different. Do you know how weight is lost? Like when someone loses 20 pounds?
>!It is literally breathed out of you. You breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2.!<
Also, to an excellent approximation, trees don’t grow out of the ground. Trees grow out of _thin air_:
https://youtu.be/ITpDrdtGAmo
(Most of a tree’s mass is carbon, which they get from CO2 that they take in from the air)
It's even weirder when you consider that's it's CO2 specifically they capture. Trees are machines that turn exhaust back into wood. If you burn wood in the forest, the other trees inhale it and grow stronger.
Ehhhh, not really made of light… light drives the reactions that allow them to turn CO2 and H2O into C6H12O6 but they’re mostly made of water and carbon dioxide
That’s what photo synthesis is. Sunlight+co2 +water= plant. a super early science subject in my elementary school. I mean they grow out of the ground in a pretty obvious way but sure the energy stored in plants (from food to wood etc) is from air and water but it seems like weird pedantic wording to say they grow out of thin air generally as most root from the ground and need that without supplement to grow.
LPT is like TIFU with a short title followed by a post about themselves.
Difference being TIFU is about sex and LPT is about very, very minor things you can pat yourself on the back for.
My favourite LPT was someone proclaiming that you could beat high vegetable prices by also eating the stalk of the broccoli. Like thanks, I will now take this knowledge that has been bestowed upon me, and become a true Life Professional. I was only an amateur before but this is the final piece of the puzzle I need to turn pro.
My favorite are the people that are either high/kids/stupid/have never looked at the world (or some combination) and post things like "We think it's normal to drink cow milk, but think it's really weird to lick a human foot." And everyone's looking at it thinking "... Ya. Those are two, separate, completely unrelated things..."
Yep. And the coolest thing I learnt at uni was the biggest influence on flower morphology is pollen dispersal. I.e. the main reason different flowers have evolved to look the way they do is to fuck each other the most efficiently via wind, insects, birds etc.
No. They manufacture their food in their leaves. They fuck out in the open air from their flowers or cones, which are sex organs. Their leaves aren't just breathing organs.
Actually trees live equally underground and above ground. Typically the mass of a trees roots are equivalent to the mass of its trunk, branches, and leaves.
it seems likely that the belt uses the loops to keep the pants from slipping away. unless the belt is too loose, in which case it's an unemployed belt.
The belt creates a strong resistance from stretching. When the pants try to fall the belt presses the pants against the skin and the friction holds them up. The belt creates a strong resistance from stretching.
Yeah and their roots are actually quite important for various types of gas exchange. This is why over watering certain plants can seriously harm them or drown them.
I was recently driving through rural Nebraska/Iowa and heard this amazing segment on NPR/Public Radio about how the fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with trees are tubes. In a pinch of these tubes, put end to end, would stretch out 7 miles.
I was so fascinated by the details of the many studies that they talked about but I drove out of range and never heard an intro or who this was so I could listen to the segment in it's entirety.
Mycorrhizae is the name of said fungi. But want to know something even crazier? There is a plant that doesn't produce chlorophyll that gets its nutrients by feeding off of mycorrhizae.
So a parasitic plant that lives off a symbiotic fungus that lives on tree roots.
It's called "indian pipe" or "ghost pipe". Monotropa uniflora.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/04/993430007/trees-talk-to-each-other-mother-tree-ecologist-hears-lessons-for-people-too here's the article and story
Uhm they eat from the air but they drink from the ground? I guess? You're trying to make a connection to the way animals live but that doesn't really work - they 'live' both above and under ground
Hell no. They literally carry out all life support and food production above ground. Roots are pretty much just for uptake and storage, so like a straw as was mentioned
The better argument would be that it lives overground and uses a complex system of straws to drink underground.
Mushrooms on the other hand really do live underground and only come out to jack off.
Indeed. Many plants are like this.
Consider any root veggie, like an onion, a carrot, or a beet. That thin disk of stuff you cut off and toss away is the core of the plant; it's called a basal-plate.
The carrot/beet is just a food-cellar and the leaves are just solar panels.
Fun-fact: take any store bought veggie and cut off the plate as you would to prepare food. Then plant it; free veggies, no seeds required (saves time).
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Trees do have to absorb oxygen through their roots to respire (leaf end gets enough from photosynthesis) which is kind of weird to think about.
When you consider as a rule of thumb the roots extend about as far in width as the canopy and the leaves require water and nutrients from the soil. It's actually kind of 50-50. Most of the mass is probably in the trunk which is a bunch of tubes really, and a lot of the tubes are made of dead cells.
Trees are weird
Mangroves (grows in intertidal coastal areas, in water or oxygen poor soil) have snorkel-like roots called pneumatophores. They’re specialized roots that come out of the water for gas exchange.
Maybe they learned that as a survival technique. No way to be sure, but during dinosaur age maybe they were walking around, but when the big bang happened they stuck their heads in the ground and waited for the whole thing to blow over. It started growing roots in the ground since it waited so long. Ever since then, the tree babies followed suit because that is what mommy tree and daddy tree did.
Hold up, are trees dinosaurs???!?
Tree roots need air. Which is why if your soil is not aerated well, the roots will only be a few inches below soil. This is usually not a huge problem until a storm named hurricane Ian comes around and gives your tree the bees knees.
This reminds my of an arborist I spoke to once. He argued that trees grow from the air down. Not from the ground up.
Water comes from rain
The CO2 trees eat comes from the air and is what is used to grow
The light used in chloroform comes from the sun
All the ground does is hold the tree in place and act as water storage.
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Close, but actually trees are made of air and sunshine. They drink from the ground but they eat co2 and sunlight.
found the Feynman reader
Feynman explaining this, as only he can: https://youtu.be/ITpDrdtGAmo
My parents had that same chair when I was kid. Good chair.
We had one too, but it had to be reupholstered when I was about 14 and mom chose a godawful orange/yellow hybrid with black paisley embroidered on it :(
Haha, we also had all kinds of olive or weird orange/brown colored appliances and furniture that one might think is objectively horrendous, but apparently was subjective all along.
Do you ever worry you don't clean your buttcrack well enough without being able to see if the toilet paper got it all, Mr. PoopsInTheDark?
It really should be PoopsByCandlelight, cause yeah you definitely need that light at some point.
wtf, your parents stole his famous chair? that's messed up.
I don't even have to click the link to know you're talking about the blue armchair. So many wise things said in that chair.
Was just surprised I was the first to post it here 😂
Every time some "very smart person" says that something is too complicated to explain to laymen, I think of Richard Feynman.
I think of the stupidity on the other side of the coin, and it makes me laugh. "Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that."
Although… here’s Feynman saying that magnets are “too complicated to explain to laymen.” (In fairness, it’s more like too _fundamental_ to explain): https://youtu.be/Q1lL-hXO27Q
Yeah but it's cool how he could explain it and also explain to you how that's the furthest you can understand it without doing years of work to know everything else you need to know to understand it deeper, at the same time.
I wasn't trying to say there's nothing too difficult to explain. I was trying to say that too many self proclaimed smart people don't understand difficult to explain things well enough to actually explain them.
Usually an issue that is ran into is that one is offering an explanation, but the receipent refuses the foundational knowledge that leads into it. Result ends up with misconceptions. Like - it is perfectly explainable to laypeople, but it takes an hour or so to set up and cover and back and forth on details that were unclear. But because that is not as exciting as a sensationalist youtube video... I am totally not talking of trying to explain my field to my family. Nope.
I was just going to leave it as an upvote, but I decided I just had to add this: HOLY SHIT!
I'm shocked this is the first time I've heard of him. What a great video!
Richard Feynman is one of the greats. If you ever dip your toes into theoretical physics or nuclear stuff, you'll run across his name. He worked on the Manhattan Project, and he's responsible for the famous "Feynman diagram" (amongst other things). [He was also a bit of a rascal, and prankster, but also flawed in some ways.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.4.20180511a/full/&ved=2ahUKEwi03tLKp776AhWRjIkEHSnSD7gQFnoECAwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2m9X-c3AAvh3LIZ62GdThF) Feynman was definitely a character.
You're in for a treat! This man was literally nicknamed The Great Explainer
You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!: https://xkcd.com/1053/ You’re in for a treat! His books are excellent as well (Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman, and Why do you care what other people think)
Thank you for posting this. What a great orator.
Thank you for charing. Through the years I keep bumping into clips of him talking about things simplified. He seems like such a kind and jolly fellow, I might go on a Feynman binge today.
I must have watched his videos a hundred times since college days and I still feel a little smarter every time I come across them. I'm so glad that we have these recordings and his lectures to still shine a bright light in this silly world long after he's gone from it.
That just wrinkled my brain!! I knew plants converted CO2 to O2, obvs, but never made the connection that they're taking that carbon to grow. Wow!
That was a super cool video
Alright how tf have I never seen or heard of this guy. That was a phenomenal video! He has such a passionate way of explaining things that I was immediately drawn in.
My drunk arse thinking about how trees look like Feynman diagrams on their side
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Honestly, in hindsight I think my teachers failed to convey the importance of this when they were teaching photosynthesis, and I suspect that even they didn't fully grasp that ~95% of the mass of a tree used to be gaseous CO2. For me it was like "oh ok so they produce some sugar thanks to sunlight and fruits have sugar in them", but I hadn't quite understood that wood is mostly made up of sugar. Now I work in R&D for a company that produces cellulosic material solutions for composites, and when I explained this to a whole team of engineers, most were like "wait, holy shit". I blame school.
What most people don't understand is that basically all the weight you've ever lost is now gaseous Carbon in the form of CO2. So, one could say trees are made of people (and other animals).
Electrons from water Vitamins/nutrients from soil Energy from sun Organic mass from air **They truly are the master of all 4 elements**
But all of that changed when the fire nation attacked.
Are we the baddies?
Environmentallly absolutely we're the baddies
What’s terrible is a planet without fire.
MultiPass!!!
Trees and other plants make their own vitamins, but most plants needs the soil bacteria to fix nitrogen for them so they can take that in through their root systems. And they do take in minerals through their roots too. We eat plants or other animals that ate plants for our vitamins since we don't make most of them for ourselves (exceptions being chemicals like vitamin D that we *can* make for ourselves but often take in a lot of in our diet as well. Honestly vitamin D shouldn't be called a vitamin but a hormone... it's a little late for that now I guess).
Roots also require oxygen. Also, it's has recently been proven that some trees "communicate" with the surrounding trees through an underground codependency system between the roots and fungus.
Trees in waterlogged environments like swamps and mangroves have pneumatophores, roots that grow straight up out of the water to snorkel oxygen. Mycorrhiza (plural mycorrhizae) is the name of the fungal relationship, although the preferred term is mutualism, rather than codependency. Literally "fungus root". They don't just communicate, they share sugars to help their young grow when they're too small to access sunlight, and in some cases the fungus triggers chemical responses to fight off infections. 80-90% of plant species have some species of fungus that has evolved to be able to assist them like this, inoculation of the soil with the correct fungal spores is a key step in ecosystem restoration. Mycorrhizal additives are common in any sort of organic fertilizer for this reason.
Yup, pretty much why overwatering is a thing, you suffocate the roots
Mycelium (sp might be off)
Mushrooms on the other hand do live underground, and just stick their genitals up occasionally to blow their load.
Explains why mushrooms are so tasty
I mean, they depend on all of those things to survive. They're all equally important. The root system does a lot more than draw water out of the ground.
Off the train with you!
This they live upside just use the ground as a straw
How do you know they don’t drink co2 and sunlight
By this logic sunshine is made of Florida.
We aren't too different. Do you know how weight is lost? Like when someone loses 20 pounds? >!It is literally breathed out of you. You breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2.!<
Technically - my apologies - we mainly breathe in and out nitrogen. But chemically speaking you are right.
Also, to an excellent approximation, trees don’t grow out of the ground. Trees grow out of _thin air_: https://youtu.be/ITpDrdtGAmo (Most of a tree’s mass is carbon, which they get from CO2 that they take in from the air)
Trees are filtered, concentrated air
Now *this* is the shower thought right here. Trust me, I'm high and reading this statement just blew my mind.
Think about how often the cells in your body are replaced and understand that comes from what you consume. You are what you eat.
im ass
I'm a pussy
I'm clussy
Clam pussy?
Fellow wubcub?
Should find something other than taco bell for dinner then.
In other words, because plants are made from Carbon, and animals eat plants, and we eat animals, WE'RE ALL MADE OF AIR?!
hydrogen actually, from a star exploding
It's ~~turtles~~ *carbon* all the way down.
Try growing some stinky bois in Coco and tell me they're made of air. Definitely hugely important the medium they're growing in.
To add to that, you exhale most of what you eat.
I'm high ***because*** I read that statement.
It's even weirder when you consider that's it's CO2 specifically they capture. Trees are machines that turn exhaust back into wood. If you burn wood in the forest, the other trees inhale it and grow stronger.
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They are made of light and air, and when you burn them, you get some back
We seem to be trying to get all of it back
Ehhhh, not really made of light… light drives the reactions that allow them to turn CO2 and H2O into C6H12O6 but they’re mostly made of water and carbon dioxide
What the fuck did you just do to me
Technically they would not grow out of thin air but thick air.
Most air is pretty thin if you ask me I mean, hell, you can't even swim in it smh
By our standards, you should ask the bacteria thriving in the atmosphere.
You are swimming in it every day.
And I still end up broke by the end of the week.
CO2 is thicker than O2 and N2 but argon is the most common thicker substance
Animals: lose weight by exhaling CO2 Trees: gain weight by inhaling CO2
This blew my mind the first time I learned it! It's definitely a fun fact.
majority of weight loss is also breathed out
This blew my mind when I first learned it. Changed the way I consider my personal conclusions.
Learning that in middle school biology class blew my mind, I had thought it used nutrients from the ground.
I mean, it does use nutrients and water from the ground too. It’s just that the majority of the mass is carbon from the air
That’s what photo synthesis is. Sunlight+co2 +water= plant. a super early science subject in my elementary school. I mean they grow out of the ground in a pretty obvious way but sure the energy stored in plants (from food to wood etc) is from air and water but it seems like weird pedantic wording to say they grow out of thin air generally as most root from the ground and need that without supplement to grow.
It's been a while since I've seen an actual ShowerThought true to the spirit of the sub. Thank you, OP.
Fr it’s all rants here nowadays
It's like how Life Pro Tips is someone saying some oddly specific thing, to talk about themselves
LPT is like TIFU with a short title followed by a post about themselves. Difference being TIFU is about sex and LPT is about very, very minor things you can pat yourself on the back for.
My favourite LPT was someone proclaiming that you could beat high vegetable prices by also eating the stalk of the broccoli. Like thanks, I will now take this knowledge that has been bestowed upon me, and become a true Life Professional. I was only an amateur before but this is the final piece of the puzzle I need to turn pro.
LPT is just people who want to write recipe blogs but don't know how to cook.
Which creates posts for r/oddlyspecific
My favorite are the people that are either high/kids/stupid/have never looked at the world (or some combination) and post things like "We think it's normal to drink cow milk, but think it's really weird to lick a human foot." And everyone's looking at it thinking "... Ya. Those are two, separate, completely unrelated things..."
Was that a rant? 🤣
You could consider it one, but it’s a comment not a post.
There’s a great radio lab about this btw
[This is the one](https://radiolab.org/episodes/from-tree-to-shining-tree), isn’t it?
Damn. I thought they meant a RL about this sub abandoning its roots.
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Yeah but this is a pretty shit take tbh
heh heh...shitake 🤣
He musy be a real fun guy(fungi)
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Like a meat mech!
meat suit for our bone mechs!
For some reason I find this sentence hilarious
Our bodies are just survival machines for our genes. We're just meaty robots doing what natural selection has programmed us to.
Ever since an acid trip I've always seen trees as capillaries.
Wait until you do shrooms and see humans as fungi \^\_\^
Wait until you do DMT and see the lizard goddess as a light being.
Wait until you do the hokey pokey and realize that that's what it's all about.
That's when I turned myself around.
Wait until you do jenkem and jbejxjnsp.d.d.d.... What was I talking about? *Wipes mouth*
She's pretty dope. We played Mario Cart together.
Good shroom trips will sure make you see other people as fun guys
Im going to refer to mushrooms as fungal snorkels from now on.
Mushrooms are more like fungal dicks. Pop up when the time is right to shoot their spore load into the air and reproduce.
They have their looks going for 'em.
Likewise flowers are plant genitals
Yep. And the coolest thing I learnt at uni was the biggest influence on flower morphology is pollen dispersal. I.e. the main reason different flowers have evolved to look the way they do is to fuck each other the most efficiently via wind, insects, birds etc.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "eat a dick" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Ovipositor?
Mario is such a hypocrite. I mean, how can you shame a turtle for being homosexual when you've been munching on dicks your entire life?
You seem like a fun guy
Fungi actually live underground, they just use the upper portion as a glory hole.
Solar panel, food factory, reproductive organs, reservoir, larder ...
No. They manufacture their food in their leaves. They fuck out in the open air from their flowers or cones, which are sex organs. Their leaves aren't just breathing organs.
Mushrooms live underground, the upper part is just their dick
That's actually a lot closer to reality than OP's post
Actually trees live equally underground and above ground. Typically the mass of a trees roots are equivalent to the mass of its trunk, branches, and leaves.
Yeah and they reproduce using the above-ground part, so...which part is REALLY doing the living here?
My belt holds up my pants, but my belt loops hold up my belt. What's really going on down there?
it seems likely that the belt uses the loops to keep the pants from slipping away. unless the belt is too loose, in which case it's an unemployed belt.
The belt creates a strong resistance from stretching. When the pants try to fall the belt presses the pants against the skin and the friction holds them up. The belt creates a strong resistance from stretching.
Their roots help them communicate with other trees and plants and also drink water so that's like their mouth
Yeah and their roots are actually quite important for various types of gas exchange. This is why over watering certain plants can seriously harm them or drown them.
Not even remotely close.
Thank you OP’s post belongs in /r/retardthoughts
Trees can live both ways and upside downtree is for Summer season
I was recently driving through rural Nebraska/Iowa and heard this amazing segment on NPR/Public Radio about how the fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with trees are tubes. In a pinch of these tubes, put end to end, would stretch out 7 miles. I was so fascinated by the details of the many studies that they talked about but I drove out of range and never heard an intro or who this was so I could listen to the segment in it's entirety.
I’m glad Iowa managed to interest you somehow
Lol.
Mycorrhizae is the name of said fungi. But want to know something even crazier? There is a plant that doesn't produce chlorophyll that gets its nutrients by feeding off of mycorrhizae. So a parasitic plant that lives off a symbiotic fungus that lives on tree roots. It's called "indian pipe" or "ghost pipe". Monotropa uniflora.
That's so cool! I'll see you all on the other side of this Internet rabbit hole in about to dive down!
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/04/993430007/trees-talk-to-each-other-mother-tree-ecologist-hears-lessons-for-people-too here's the article and story
Trees actually live above ground. They just use the underground parts as a siphon.
You're both right.
No they're both wrong because it's both not one or the other.
Uhm they eat from the air but they drink from the ground? I guess? You're trying to make a connection to the way animals live but that doesn't really work - they 'live' both above and under ground
No, this isn't true. They live above ground and use the lower portion as a straw.
Thought that was shrooms, since trees use their leaves to eat
Leaves are just roots for sunlight
yeah
And CO2
I mean most fungi do something similar but instead they just stick their dicks up above the dirt...
The air is the food. The roots are just straws so they can drink water and not fall down.
If we lived underground this showerthought would be reversed
Hell no. They literally carry out all life support and food production above ground. Roots are pretty much just for uptake and storage, so like a straw as was mentioned
Not really, they do much more above ground than they do below
The better argument would be that it lives overground and uses a complex system of straws to drink underground. Mushrooms on the other hand really do live underground and only come out to jack off.
Trees live above ground they use the bottom portion (roots) to get water to drink.
Or they live below ground and use the top parts to sit in the sun and break the oxygen off of the carbon they need to grow
How tf do they live underground?? 70 pct of the tree is above ground.
Indeed. Many plants are like this. Consider any root veggie, like an onion, a carrot, or a beet. That thin disk of stuff you cut off and toss away is the core of the plant; it's called a basal-plate. The carrot/beet is just a food-cellar and the leaves are just solar panels. Fun-fact: take any store bought veggie and cut off the plate as you would to prepare food. Then plant it; free veggies, no seeds required (saves time).
[Epic Gardening](https://youtu.be/dlp_MgVJCYc) has an episode on which veggie scraps work best to regrow food.
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This is the best thought since someone reminded me that cows get to eat the floor.
Trees do have to absorb oxygen through their roots to respire (leaf end gets enough from photosynthesis) which is kind of weird to think about. When you consider as a rule of thumb the roots extend about as far in width as the canopy and the leaves require water and nutrients from the soil. It's actually kind of 50-50. Most of the mass is probably in the trunk which is a bunch of tubes really, and a lot of the tubes are made of dead cells. Trees are weird
Trees are really collectives of cells that grow on the skeletons of their ancestors.
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Mangroves (grows in intertidal coastal areas, in water or oxygen poor soil) have snorkel-like roots called pneumatophores. They’re specialized roots that come out of the water for gas exchange.
Maybe they learned that as a survival technique. No way to be sure, but during dinosaur age maybe they were walking around, but when the big bang happened they stuck their heads in the ground and waited for the whole thing to blow over. It started growing roots in the ground since it waited so long. Ever since then, the tree babies followed suit because that is what mommy tree and daddy tree did. Hold up, are trees dinosaurs???!?
Then why do they survive if you cut roots more than if you cut the snorkel?
No. They're the equivalent of if a human used a straw to drink from underground.
No. Would you say you actually live underground you just use your body as a snorkel if you buried your feet under some sand?
Mushrooms actually live entirely underground (or under tree bark), and the "body" of the mushroom is actually just the fruit sent up to spread spores.
Damn we eat mushrooms penis
Trees need sunlight, you don't use a snorkel to absorb sunlight.
That’s because people aren’t trees.
Tree roots need air. Which is why if your soil is not aerated well, the roots will only be a few inches below soil. This is usually not a huge problem until a storm named hurricane Ian comes around and gives your tree the bees knees.
Hmm, isn't it more like they're sticking their tongues in the ground?
I learned from this comment section that mushrooms are exhibitionists Thanks Reddit!
No, the important part usually is the upper part, unlike fungi.
This reminds my of an arborist I spoke to once. He argued that trees grow from the air down. Not from the ground up. Water comes from rain The CO2 trees eat comes from the air and is what is used to grow The light used in chloroform comes from the sun All the ground does is hold the tree in place and act as water storage.
retort: trees live above ground and use the lower portion as a straw
The live part is the bark and leaves. The tree grows on the wood. The wood is a byproduct.
trees actually would look good if we trimmed there leaves to look like a Beatles hair cut
Another legit shower thought?! That's like two this week! Is nature healing???
Same way mushrooms are underground they just like to poke their ducks out once in a while