Plants Behaving Badly

[Scott Kellogg]

Good Morning,

Just caught an episode of the PBS series "Plants Behaving Badly"
If you're interested in Carnivorous Plants and their evolution, you might find it interesting.
https://www.pbs.org/show/plants-behaving-badly/

Good Inspiration for alien creatures interacting with unsuspecting Landing Parties.

Have Fun!

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

To say the plants are behaving badly is to anthropomorphise them. This "behaviour" is merely the result of environmental pressure and evolution by natural selection.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

To say the plants are behaving badly is to anthropomorphise them. This "behaviour" is merely the result of environmental pressure and evolution by natural selection.

It's the title of the show.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Yeah, it's a sensationalist marketing ploy by the TV execs to attract attention - I get it. It's still misleading.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Yeah, it's a sensationalist marketing ploy by the TV execs to attract attention - I get it. It's still misleading.

Misleading? Honestly...? Did you expect plants to be going out and drinking too much or carousing with female plants while bragging about their stamen power and trying to get their fronds on the lady's big pistols?

 

[Finn]

Misleading? Honestly...? Did you expect plants to be going out and drinking too much or carousing with female plants while bragging about their stamen power and trying to get their fronds on the lady's big pistols?

You are being pedantic. Asbo Zaprudder isn't wrong. There are folks who would...assume wrong. The title of the show is pretty much sensational.

 

[fireproof78]

Yeah, based upon the title I would not have guessed the show was about what was described.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I admit that "Plants that have evolved to obtain nitrogenous, phosphoric, and other compounds to make proteins and nucleic acids by using modified leaf structures to trap and digest animals" would be a rubbish title. At least, it doesn't imply that the plants are doing it seemingly to annoy us.

 

[fireproof78]

I admit that "Plants that have evolved to obtain nitrogenous, phosphoric, and other compounds to make proteins and nucleic acids by using modified leaf structures to trap and digest animals" would be a rubbish title. At least, it doesn't imply that the plants are doing it seemingly to annoy us.

Speak for yourself on rubbish titles.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I did and my title was rubbish. I'm not a TV marketing exec.

 

[fireproof78]

I did and my title was rubbish. I'm not a TV marketing exec.

Well, I like it...

 

[Santaman]

Attack of the killer tomatoes!

Oh wait..

 

[scotpens]

. . . There are folks who would...assume wrong. The title of the show is pretty much sensational.

It's meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I'm sure no one is seriously applying human moral values to plants.

Attack of the killer tomatoes!

Those triffids can be pretty nasty suckers also.

 

[Finn]

It's meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I'm sure no one is seriously applying human moral values to plants.


Those triffids can be pretty nasty suckers also.

I know, but seriously, there are also people who would misinterpret the header......

 

[CorporalCaptain]

It's meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I'm sure no one is seriously applying human moral values to plants.

Indeed. Humor, difficult concept, and all that.

I look forward to the sequel, "Plants Gone Wild!"

 

[publiusr]

Where blowing on a dandelion is the money shot

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

In a way as flowers are plant genitalia.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

You only have to "talk" to your plants to keep them in line.

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[publiusr]

Not exactly a plant but...
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/31/1022837166/real-life-spongebob-squarepants-noaa-expedition
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-unraveling-mysteries-ocean-space.html