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There needs to be more research done into this, and as of now we can’t say why the sounds happen but. WHAT.
I knew they could hear noises but apparently they MAKE noises too
Cats knocking over houseplants just got a lot more vindictive
SHUT UPPPP
“Crowley, dear?” Aziraphale turned around the newspaper to display a headline. “Have you heard that the humans believe plants can communicate?”
Across the table, the demon waved a mug of what Crowley said was coffee but what Aziraphale suspected was mostly alcohol in his direction. “That’s old news, Angel.”
“No,” Aziraphale said, “According to this, it’s cutting edge science.” He frowned. “They’ve apparently done research.”
“Research,” Crowley repeated.
“Yes. Of the scientific variety,” Aziraphale elaborated. “I’m surprised you haven’t read up on this. You’re always going on about New Technology. And plants.”
“Back in the 70s, they said talking to plants makes them grow,” Crowley argued. “Figures that plants have to hear what you say. Otherwise, what’s the point in talking to them to get them to grow?”
“But did you know plants could talk back to you?” Aziraphale asked, pointing again to the headline.
“Mine don’t.” Crowley’s voice took on a Tone as he threw a dark look at a lush but oddly nervous looking fern over the top of his sunglasses. “They know better.”
Dr. Elinne Becket, a microbiologist from Cal State University, is in the middle of one of those Fridge Experiments that happens to us all - except in this case, she is uniquely placed to unravel the science down to the microbial level.
While cleaning out her fridge, Dr. Becket found that a tub of family-recipe beef vegetable soup had turned bright blue. “Ok I’m outing myself here,” she tweeted, “but there was forgotten
beef soup in our fridge we just cleaned it out and it was BLUE?!?!? Wtf
contam would make it blue??? Like BRIGHT blue!! Even w/ all my years in
micro I’m not handling this well.“
Read on for a breathless and ongoing saga of Soup and Science, and the wonderful international community that is Academic Twitter.
The thing society as a whole doesn’t understand about nature is that absolutely nothing is just a worm or just a bug or just a plain little fish that does nothing but swim around and eat until it dies. Every single animal has a complicated life and habits. Minnows make nests out of pebbles. Slugs have courtship rituals. Fruit flies have territorial battles and when they can’t get laid they become alcoholics all in those few days that they even exist on earth. Just the functions of the different body parts of a dust mite can fill a lecture and we still don’t completely understand everything about its life habits or its biochemistry.
Unless you were a tech at NASA back in the day, when one time some hydrogen a) escaped in a particular building, and b) caught on fire. This was extremely difficult because hydrogen does NOT burn on the visible spectrum humans evolved to see (and flee). Rather, it technically does, but it’s so pale that in practice, no one could see it. Additionally, pure hydrogen burns without smoke and with so little ambient heat that you can’t really sense it till you walk into it. So, per the lore, for a few days all the techs in that building just walked around brandishing brooms in front of them like lances. If your broom lit on fire, congrats! You have located more burning hydrogen! Do not proceed!
computer science research is so overwhelming i just sit there in astonishment while my six monitors try to beam into me information about DNA, the human body, geography of the world, and heartbeat monitors with graphics only
me, an entomologist, unable to enter nature without a full labcoat, gloves, and safety glasses, definitely using a magnifying glass appropriately
My careful scientific investigation has revealed that this is indeed a plastic cockroach in a petris dish
Double fisting my slide microscope which I am viewing through safety glasses and protective mask and my entire plastic cockroach
The Dinosaur Mummy The recent discovery of a dinosaur mummy has left archaeologists baffled. This dinosaur mummy is one of the best preserved ever found. This is evident from the appearance of the mummy, which still has intact skin and a hard shell. The fossil, which was found purely by chance while miners were drilling in Canada, is thought to be more than 110 million years old. The mummy was placed in the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology in Alberta, Canada. After careful examination, it was discovered that the animal’s skin also protected its intact intestines.
