Plants are the ‘aliens” visiting Earth!
Many of you know that I think plant life may have evolved
elsewhere (off Earth), as the movie The Thing From Another World so
presciently told us in 1951.
Two items that I add to my ongoing “thesis” include a review
in the December 8th, 2016 issue of The New York Review of
Books and a Science Magazine article.
The review in the NYRB is by Thomas Pakenham
on Page 46 [What Trees Say]: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They
Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter
Wohlleban (Translated from the German by Jane Billinghurst), [Greystone/David
Suzuki Institute]
A team from the university in Vancouver “discovered … a vast
underground network, called a mycorrhiza, in which fungi connect trees of different
species by passing chemical and electrical signals among the trees’ roots. It
was an arboreal Internet – christened the ‘wood wide web.’ [haha] Trees could
actually communicate by exchanging carbon through their roots. The exchange
offer mutual support …
“ … trees not only benefited by mutual exchange of food.
They exchanged vital information …
“ … if a tree’s leaves are bitten by a caterpillar. It will
send a message through the mycorrhiza, prompting other trees in the network to
release chemicals that repel caterpillars …
“ … that, in their own way, trees had feelings, that they
knew how to communicate with one another, and that the strong were able to
assist the weak.”
The Science Magazine (online) article tells us plants exude
“light” through their roots to see underground.
Click HERE for that article.
My speculation has been and continues to be that plant life
elsewhere in the Galaxy (or Universe) evolved into thinking, mobile beings and
while on scouting missions stumbled upon Earth, with its abundance of water and
nutrients, necessary for their existence.
They now come here to sustain themselves or bask in the
glory of a liquid planet.
Fortunately, they are not carnivorous like the “carrot” in The
Thing film, although some mutilated cattle and Snippy might disagree.
RR
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
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