No touchy
No touchy
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Imagine a stranger holding your hand in public transport like this 😲😳
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Well, if they were stinky I'd probably be upset. If their hands were sticky, I'd be upset. Repeat for the other social offenses. Otherwise, sure, go for it. We all need a case of mistaken identity in our lives.
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Looks like a voronoi noise texture.
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It can probably be mathematically defined as such.
I wonder how much different species affect the parameters.
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It kinda is!
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my sibling, putting their finger close but not on me: I'm not touching you!
Me, who understands matter never touches because of electromagnetic forces putting my finger on my sibling: I'm not touching you!
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im so glad that we aren't the only species that do hoverhands.
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They‘re just like me fr
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The Witness has rewired my brain to look for dot line patterns.
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This shouldnt happen in nature should it? Just talking out of my ass here but i feel like this only happens because they are all the same height because they were planted by humans at the same time. Or maybe only in mono culture forests, because i have never seen this simply because there is always overlap from smaller or different trees where i have been.
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Natural selection happens at the genotype level, not the individual level. Having a species that likes to combat with other individuals with, essentially, the exact same genotype, at the expense of both individuals, is often not a winning strategy.
(There are exceptions and caveats of course -- e.g. competition between individuals to select the fittest ones of them to preferentially survive, or Fisher's Principle which explains why the ratio of males to females is roughly 50:50 in most species, even though that's often not optimal for the species as a whole).
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Man, that's some crazy logic. I'll take occams razor and state that wind movement abrades the leaves/limbs on one another.
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And isn't it advantageous to the whole forest if the mature trees are the same height? Doesn't that happen naturally all over the place? Something about equal sunlight, hydraulic pressure, hydration, and... I forget.
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I'm no expert, but plants could all begin growing at the same time in nature thanks to things like wildfires, landslides, etc.
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I was curious and looked it up. Apparently it mostly happens between trees of the same species, with several causes.
Most are mechanical. The tips brush against each other, and damage new branches and leaves. Both trees divert growth away from the area.
Some also sense shading via red light. They focus growth away from shade. This means neither tree grows into the gap, since they are partially shading each other.
It also helps limit the spread of leaf eating parasites. Again, particularly useful in a forest of the same species.
So yes, the trees are social distancing, to avoid the spread of disease.
So you're saying the trees can accomplish what humanity never could.
Considering how little conflict we currently have, compared to our population size, we are doing extremely well. Unfortunately, the conflicts remaining are spectacular enough to counter that.
We did a good job down here, sounds like your country must’ve sucked at it.
Trees hella smart.
balances -> branches* :)