What? That chick is gonna miss out. What dating app was she using?
Plantnet.
Came for the meme, stayed for the scientific studies.
The trees are watching us.
In a sense, all the light harvesting parts of a plant are collecting information about its environment.
Do you often feel like there are thousands of eyes watching you? Taps pen.
I do wonder the resolution that it could detect.
Can a leaf detect the difference in blue light coming from above and green light surrounding it? Can it detect the green and brown light surrounding it? The red light reflecting off a bird sitting above it?
If it’s sensitive enough to the different wavelengths a leaf wouldn’t really be all that much different from an eye.
I mean… yes?
Like that is kind of all a leaf is ‘really’ doing.
I dropped this mostly as a joke, but here is photosythesis:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/47117e3d-82e0-4325-816f-ed2c854d18b2.png
All plant pigments are photoreactive in ‘some’ manner:
Its ancient dusty, pre-covid exposure memories, but I took a course as a graduate student covering the quantum physics of photosynthesis, and that’s basically what a leaf is doing. In the above image, the peaks on the left at around 400-500 can be thought of as blue light, and the peaks around 640-800 can be thought of as red light. Both of these wavelengths of light are involved in photosynthesis, which you can think of as in a manner, solar fusion in reverse. The plant has to take the light from the sun (the product of fusion), and get that energy reattached to a molecule. In fact, iirc, its basically the same electron orbital diagram. And it does make sense, because physically, that is what is happening.
These days I do much more boring stuff, but I always loved photosynthesis. Its probably one of my favorite chemical reactions. Nah fuck that it is my favorite chemical reaction.
So like, yeah. Plants have a TON of information about their environment. Granted, their photosensors don’t have lenses, but they are constantly gathering and reacting to information about the quantity, quality, and locations of light. Afa resolution? Thats like, actually a super interesting question. Not having a lens is a big drawback.
You bastard. I was supposed to work tomorrow. Now I am going to depending down this hole.
I am resisting the will, I’ll just date him so he can tell me all about it
Well, tell me when you have learnt it all, I’ll date one of you to learn after that
That’s cool, I’d go on a second date with you.
If some lady brought out a conversation that fucking awesome, I wouldn’t want a second date either. I’d fucking propose. Well, would have. There’s very little sexier than enthusiasm and a love of knowledge.
And no, not literally propose, and it would hopefully turn into a second date, but that’s no fucking fun to open up with in a comment, ffs, you fucking pedant.
Dude pedants ruin everything. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to explain the concept of hyperbole to someone
First half was kinda cool then BAM - INCEL
WHOA - The above comment was having edited. This was done incel bot 2000 type of content before and now it’s all slick and not at all in the previous vein of it.
For the incels, it didn’t used to say it was a woman.
2nd edit - the above comment wasn’t edited at all, I’m just drunk and stupid. Still tho - BAM INCEL
Alas, I fear that even when not drunk, the second status still applies.
Awh!
Just taking the piss, no worries :)
> explain that you won’t seriously marry a stranger who knows plants
> incel
