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xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 day agoAdmittedly 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.
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.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 day ago
But did they do that in Newton’s time?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well before Newton discovered gravity, the vines would have been floating freely around. His discovery is what triggered the cucumber to hit the ground.