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xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The cucumber is on the ground. And cucumbers do grow on plants.

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  • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Admittedly the image quality is “this meme first appeared in a dirty magazine in 1986 and has been re-compressed twice a year since the internet was invented”, but there are falling lines above the cucumber, and a little puff of smoke where it hits the ground. It’s depicted as falling out of a tree.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s common to use a trellis with cucumbers to have their vines grow vertically instead of covering all of the horizontal space of a garden. That makes cucumbers “hang” in the air like a fruit on a tree, and would lead to those motion lines in a fall.

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But did they do that in Newton’s time?

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• ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The cucumber just fell out of a peddler’s basket who was moving ahead of the woman under the tree.

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