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Clever plants chat over their own network

physorg.com — Recent research reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting to be cut off or eaten up. Many plants form internal communications networks and are able to exchange information efficiently.

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  • allaboutdatiki, on 10/10/2007, -0/+35Running bamboo is a great example of a crazy interconnected network plant ... the root systems are monsters. It's amazing to watch the leaves curl and uncurl due to the lack or abundance of water. When thinning stalks, it's possible to actually hear and see the leaves as they curl. I freaked the first time I heard it ...
    • Aupajo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+42"Many plants form internal communications networks and are able to exchange information efficiently."

      Proving once again that nature > myspace
    • thaeastsida, on 10/10/2007, -7/+0and ill smoke to that
    • sotopheavy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1 "However there are two sides to the coin. That is not just the case for the Internet but also for plants."

      Yes, plant porn is rampant on these networks.

      Hey Ficus, check out her strawberries!
  • thesio, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29the caterpillars are coming!
  • DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -3/+89hay some1 eatin me bbl
  • omegadude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+43they called me crazy, but i always knew i could hear my plants LOLing...
  • Puppetfunk, on 10/10/2007, -9/+88During harvest season:


    Cornking has entered the room


    t3hcorn: OH NOES!!!!!!!

    t3hcorn has left the room

    C0rn: NO!!!!!

    C0rn has left the room

    Notpoppedyet: LOL FAGGETS.....NOOOOOSSSS!!!!!

    Notpoppedyet has left the room

    Corm: Meh leeves!!!

    Corm has left the room
  • PurpZeY, on 10/10/2007, -5/+56Thank god! When my ganja plants grew buds and I heard them talking about The Matrix -- I thought I was just really high.
    • 0hffs, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3ahh harvest time always brings a tear to me eye. my poor widows, just to get smoked...thank you ladies.
    • slimfox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Tell them to grow more buds.
    • DjLoTi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8hah, yeah. I talk to my plants, take really good care of them. Only grow a few, and give them lots of attention. They yield wonderful pot.
  • whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+41I'd assume this. Plants are crazy *****. PETA is killing some great organisms.
    • Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15it's a holocaust on your plate...a holocaust of vegetables. I recommend PETA folk stop murdering plants and become Breatharians.
      • transitive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6truly the only moral course of action for a PETA member is to learn how to feed directly from inanimate resources such as sun, air, and earth.
      • bubba9999, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5If they really cared about the environment, they'd kill themselves so they'd stop consuming it and start giving back to it.
  • FreakyD, on 10/10/2007, -2/+108I heard about this through the grapevine a while back
  • ogore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+35What do I eat now?
    • probrian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18rocks?
      • Audacitor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22This just in: Rocks can communicate using telepathy. Examples of usage include plotting the death of passersby by coordinating avalanches, and discussing the consistency of squirrel droppings!
        • probrian, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Can we eat spammers?
          oh wait...no fiber...all fat sorry lol
    • Jelfish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1lots of salt
    • clothmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Anything that doesn't cast a shadow?
    • sotopheavy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1*****
  • afruff23, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Idiocracy anyone?
    • Harbinger67, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Plants just talk about how they crave electrolytes.
    • sotopheavy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Brought to you by Carl's Junior
  • colonels1020, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1...thanks to Microsoft SharePoint...
  • RyeBrye, on 10/10/2007, -7/+7Physorg.com is a science tabloid.
    • TaylorSmythe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This article was remarkably ***** written and made me suspect the credibility immediately. Thanks for corroborating with my suspicion!
    • sotopheavy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They take articles from credible scientific journals. A poorly written article may just be their way of dumbing down all the details to sensationalize it. It is backed by research. Besides, what would be so hard to believe about a living organism having a defensive mechanism? It's defense mechanism is communication and interconnection.
  • ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I long ago knew that plants had nervous systems, I just didn't know they could communicate through their root systems. Now I can only eat stuff that dies of natural causes or falls off a tree...still, lunchtime is a bit of an adventure.
    • goldfishey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2yeah - theres a segment of vegetarians called fruitopians or something. They only eat what the plant gives up willingly, so they dont kill the plant. Although I suppose that eating a tomato would be like abortion, because thats a whole bunch of little seeds that will never grow into a tomato plant. Oh, where will the ethics end? ;)
      • XIUgraag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Plant the seeds, eat the rest! Problem solved.
    • sotopheavy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I would eat Bambi wrapped in these plants if I had to to survive. If you are a vegan, thanks. More choice meat for me.
  • Cloned, on 10/10/2007, -3/+51Looks like vegetarians might have to resort to starving themselves.
    • Slackdragon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I'm going to have to start subsisting off of vegans.
      • Brand83, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Nahh.. Mcdonalds still doesn't use meat or plants.
        • psyjoniz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1china just had a less refined version of cardboard food than mcdonalds.
      • transitive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5McDonalds uses predominantly 1 plant in almost all of their products: corn. This includes the meat as well, by the way. The cows and chickens are fed on corn. The fries are fried in corn oil, and by caloric content are more corn based then potato based. The soda and deserts are mostly made from high fructose corn syrup. Radio-spectrometry done on McDonalds food products has shown that upwards of 70% of the carbon atoms in their food has the characteristic isotope ratio of carbon fixed by corn plants.
        • colto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I hope that wasn't a joke. It sounded a little corny to me.
          /ducks
        • Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What a bunch of cornholes they are.
    • clothmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Win-win.
    • sotopheavy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Perhaps they'll start eating clay. It contains no fats and tastes just like soy, which remarkably also tastes like ass.
  • gene1102, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Nothing new here! Peyote users have known this for a looooooooooooooong time.
  • SecretPact, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Plants can communicate with each other!?

    It begins...
    • Rodman930, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I, for one, welcome our body snatcher overlords.
    • clothmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It's a grassroots revolution...
  • NikoKun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I guess this would be a good time to go patent the worlds first plant-based network... or plant based network chat... lol
  • Wartz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3hey, now that we found out plants can do stuff like this, vegetarians wont want to eat them either.!
  • ruddy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4"Facebook Plants" is now currently in the making.
    can you imagine a social networking site for trees??

    poke, poke, poke, saw
  • chyya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15all this time we were worried about dolphins outsmarting humans. little did we know the broccoli was planning to destroy the human race all along
    • dreagen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So Long... and thanks for all the... Crap
    • alexkorova, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Oh, yes, one of the deadliest plants on earth. Why, it tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste" - Dr Hibbert
  • iamtheunholy1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I only tend to keep plastic plants
  • ryanvsrobots, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22this is why i became a breathatarian
    • donkeySays, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Some of us have become photosynthetharians.
  • SenorCardgage74, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15I want this to be true sooooo bad, so that I can ***** with vegetarians.
    • xmrkkr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2sooooooooo true, Hello Vegans welcome to the club
    • ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You can ***** with vegetarians anyways. What are they going to do, fight back?
  • toastmonster, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I'd love to believe that, but the article is short on facts and rife with unsubstantiated bollocks
    • Ngai, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1if it is...
      i wonder if they feel pain?
      ...
      • clothmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I hope so... because that would be AWESOME.
  • barbobot, on 10/13/2007, -0/+25"I'm a fourth-level vegetarian. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow."
  • bonjourmr, on 04/25/2008, -6/+2I wonder if bananas ripen seeing hot babez, and we are just eating their post-orgasmic state.
  • casual7y, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6they are plotting to overthrow thier human overlords... starting with that little old lady down the block who grows those plants on her window ledge.


    I for one, welcome our new plant overlords.
  • puredeviation, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Damn, the internet goes way back.
  • solitonica, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15Rose: I just love you. You know that my little clover?

    4Leaf4You: you smell nice

    Rose: Ooh. keep it up and u just might get lucky tee hee

    DandyLion entered the room.

    DandyLion: hey rose. want to pollenate?

    4leaf4you: back off bitch shes mine
    • nairbil, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19DandyLion: ...
      DandyLion: I take off my robe and wizards hat...
  • betacmag4u, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I sense a DOD project in the works.
  • theresawithanh, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Plants are plotting (heh) to take over the world...
  • skyfire1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So this is where the top bash comments come from....
  • evilknny9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2EVDO networking, coming to a garden near you
  • ripple123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I tell my BLT sandwich "scream all you want, no ones gonna hear"
  • paulbyrnes, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1ITS RON PAUL'S FAULT! LIBTARDS! ( I have no idea who he is, but conservatives seems to get him in every Dig article).
  • de1234, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0WOW
  • Ghoztt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I bet they use mIRC.
  • juckru, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0I guess this would be a good time to go patent the worlds first plant-based network... or plant based network chat...
  • databoy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0It seems that there are scientists who don't read books. Old news, 30 years out of date. All the plant experiments were done and documented.
  • ClOlD, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0This word "clever": I do not think it means what you think it does.
  • terminal157, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I'm sure most people get this but it needs to be said, just because they're communicating to some degree doesn't mean they have anything approaching intelligence. Even microbes have been shown to communicate and cooperate in certain circumstances.
  • vidar808, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Too bad they still can't run away.
    • xMotu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well who wants to catch loose strawberries?
  • ellecon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8 My God, I'm a monster! All those salads, the dead houseplants, the living butter lettuce I tried...don't look at me!
  • ireblue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Yeah ok and before you know it, the plants have gotten a plan together to take over the world...GIVE ME FREAKIN BREAK
  • RumblePen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"Hey everybody, forest fire! Quick, everybody lean to the East."
    Thanks for the communication skills evolution, now how about some ***** legs?
  • xMotu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Venus Fly Trap: He's dead Jim.
  • caponumen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Did you hear that? It's the sound of millions of vegetarian's self righteous halos hitting the ground all at once.
  • Tayrak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This is great. All those vegans can eat dirt, literally.
    • BECoole, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Loaded with LIVING microbes. Can't eat that either!
    • mcduckov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Maybe vegans will quit having such a "holier than thou" attitude.
  • PahJongg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1mums the word
  • snotrokit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1what happens when one of the plants yells "RUN"?
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