Submitted 9 months ago by pocker_machine@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Plants don't appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.
*The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences
“Daddy, why do people have to eat?”
[long pull from cig] “Plants… They came here. Now we are enslaved to eat them. It is their way.”
This is…certainly a question I just read?
If we want to believe the evil alien theory, viruses might actually fit the bill better than plants, with fungi as a possible unlikely second.
There is one type of virus that you can not convince me isn’t some kind of mechanical device. Other viruses and bacteria look organic; but bacteriophage look straight up like man-made robots.
I just looked up some images out of curiosity and you aren’t lying. It looks like a little spider/robot/ drone thing with the sole purpose of injecting it’s syringe into things.
This is by far my favorite answer.
Fungi scare me
If it makes you feel better, we descend from fungi.
You’d need to explain how they’re evil. We use them as a resource, as food, as an oxygen source, as shade, as animal habitat and food… even if they had “evil” intentions I don’t see what they would have been or how it wood have played out.
No no, see, maybe they’re evil because they produced an oxygen rich atmosphere in the first place and caused the collapse of other would-be lifefor-
Uh? Cyanowhat did what? You mean not the trees? But weren’t they up here during the carbonara making all the coal? Oh, I see. Ah. Okay.
EXACTLY
I love this comment.
IN what way would that be evil? They produce the very thing that keeps us alive by transforming what kills us.
^big plant shill
I meant like before “us” plants came along and made whatever was alive back then (our ancestors way up in the ladder) dependent on them. But someone else clarified they came first. So ya, they aren’t I guess.
I think we’ve been far more evil towards them than the other way around. We cut the most beautiful of them to make furniture after all.
No, we are related to plants, like everything else
Trees and plantlife have existed much longer than animals on land. Trees existed before fungus developed the ability to break down lignin, which is why we have huge deposits of coal underground.
Ease up on the drugs
Keep an open mindset and be more curious in life 👍
okay we will do that if you ease up on the drugs.
If anything humans are the evil aliens. We arrive, use up all the resources, multiply to beyond sustainability and destroy our host. We’re a virus.
Nice try, Agent Smith.
probably not, they’re about as smart as wood.
I doubt it, they are aliens as for evil, at some point they did caused some fair share of extinction. When they started to grow roots, causing minerals getting thrown to the seas creating deadzones killing a lot of life. Their ancestors likely algae who produced oxygen so much that killed of a lot of life that relied on low oxygen environment. I guess that could be considered evil. But then again they were not aware of doing it, and this process took millions of years. On the other hand here we are speed running to extinction. While being aware of doing it lmao 🤣.
You mean a separate alien species to animal life? No.
That is a possibility that life came about somewhere else in the universe and came to earth later, but that would be all life including plants.
No we share a huge amount of DNA with plants indicating common ancestry.
It goes deeper than that. We’re fighting the war between chlorophyll and mitochondria.
*hits blunt*
Well trees can communicate through their roots right? So what if clusters of trees act as one big brain either each tree being like a cluster of neurons, and they are more intelligent than even us, but work in such different ways and slower timescales than us that thye don’t seem intelligent to us. And we’re like parasites that they can’t do anything about that gradually destroy them… or something
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They COULD be evil aliens, but they didn’t come here for us. We showed up LOOOOOOOONG after they took over.
pocker_machine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So we are the evil aliens then
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Honestly, it checks out.
DrRatso@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I highly suggest reading the Hitchikers guide to the galaxy. A theme along these lines comes up, but less evil and more incompetent.