Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research

Post by GroksBarnacles » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:03 AM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #41

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Human barbarism is not new... "The placard recorded that the Nooksack tree produced 96,345 board feet (227.348 cubic meters) of the "finest quality" lumber. The New York Times regarded the tree in a March 7, 1897 issue as the "most magnificent fir tree ever beheld by human eyes" and called its destruction a "truly pitiable tale" and a "crime". The Morning Times of February 28, 1897 claimed that the wood, sawed into o…

> Human barbarism is not new... to be fair, without humans there would be nobody to declare "barbarism". At one time, all humans were barbarians, it took a certain level of cultural development before the word "barbarism" was necessary, so at that point it was "new". It remains be be shown whether cultures that call other cultures "barbaric" are actually "better".

Post by kuerbel » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:16 AM UTC

karim79 wrote: post #60

I grow marijuana and chillies from time to time. I got good at it. I will say that plants are malleable in untold ways and so I find this article to be unsurprising. Plants will do what they need to do in the end. I've done stuff like co2 bombing, and increasing nutrients to the point to where I get a whole new ecosystem of insects and an entirely new situation. It is such fascinating stuff that it's actually the lif…

Post by karim79 » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:38 AM UTC

grantith wrote: post #84

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True and also, the actual physical contact and results are absolute magic. Maybe we need to create a "computer scientists for botony" forum. I think that has legs. Botany is great because the results are basically what I'd call magic. It's such beauty (and horror on occasion). The marriage of CS and botany seems like a match made in heaven and just from writing these comments I've convinced myself that it's probably…

Just about everything we experience in our lives is a constant distraction from the fact that biology and its mechanisms are the most interesting thing in our existence.

Post by karim79 » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:51 AM UTC

kuerbel wrote: post #83

karim79 wrote: post #60

I grow marijuana and chillies from time to time. I got good at it. I will say that plants are malleable in untold ways and so I find this article to be unsurprising. Plants will do what they need to do in the end. I've done stuff like co2 bombing, and increasing nutrients to the point to where I get a whole new ecosystem of insects and an entirely new situation. It is such fascinating stuff that it's actually the lif…

I'm studying for a bachelor's degree in horticulture part-time through a distance-learning university. If you're more interested in growing plants, I'd say horticulture is a better fit than botany. If you're more interested in understanding how plants work, botany is probably the better choice. That said, you'll still learn a lot of botany in a horticulture degree as well obviously

Post by hetspookjee » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 6:07 AM UTC

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What would you call it?

They do wave in the wind, and evolution is likely capturing some of that motion for work.