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2024-11-11
Delicious screams. With butter.
By contrast, stressed plants are much noisier, emitting an average up to around 40 clicks per hour depending on the species. And plants deprived of water have a noticeable sound profile. They start clicking more before they show visible signs of dehydrating, escalating as the plant grows more parched, before subsiding as the plant withers away.
someone smarter than me should get to inventing a device that listens to plant clicks and tells you when it needs water
That idea is mentioned in the article, yes.
Edit: apologies. The OP has already pointed this out.
That's actually mentioned as one possible use case further down the article!
Might be a good use-case to have your home irrigation system be triggered by plant clicks instead of a schedule.
It could be. Although we don't know how much those sounds indicate distress, and perhaps watering should happen much sooner.
Imagine if aliens abduct you and give you food only when your stomach makes the kind of noise it makes after three days without eating anything, because "that's all they can detect."
Vegans: .. uh.. now what?
I hope they like stones. Hmmm, those crunchy minerals!
Thought the last mineraterian starved to death last Thursday?
Well, sort of. Not in the same way you or I might scream. Rather, they emit popping or clicking noises in ultrasonic frequencies.
Another "science" community with clickbaity bullshit.
Eh... What? It's an interesting article. The screaming is in quotation marks. So as far as I'm concerned, the title is fine.
Mowing my lawn must be a fucking nightmare for everything involved. ☹️
Imagine if instead of a podcast or audiobook or symphonic power metal you had to listen to the screams of your lawn as you mowed its life short
Nah, the pops and clicks are just plant language for, "I give my consent to be your food. Namaste."
I hear the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
How do you think that feels? (bet it hurts really bad)
Carrot juice constitutes murder (V8's genocide)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables grow)
We have to stop all this gardening (it's dirty as hell)
Let's call a spade a spade (a spade is a spade is a spade is a spade is a...)