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[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There are fern trees, conifer trees, and flowering trees. Where are my moss trees?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

By the logic we are not humans...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

no, we didn’t have mice and also ants evolve into humans… there’s one distinct line of ancestors…
it’s called convergent evolution. check out wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago

Same for roots, btw, just earlier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

So if you look at a tiny blade of grass and a gigantic tree its like looking at a Chihuahua and a brachiosaurus. And there are smaller things and bigger things in the aminal kingdum!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I think palm trees are a kind of grass

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

I didn’t know that and I agree

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I'm a billion years, crabs will start turning into trees and trees into crabs. merging into the ubercreature

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I imagine it'll look like paras

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Paras is a fungus. Totally different thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Ah you're right. Torterra then

[–] [email protected] 42 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a billion years

Damn. You look good for your age.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'd argue, but I agree. I don't need to know how they look, if they're a billion years and capable of communicating, whatever state they're in looks good. Even if its a fungus posessed rot monster.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Like a tree, for example.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

"ubercreature" excuse me, lichen would like a word with you

[–] [email protected] 78 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (7 children)

Also cool that for a period of like 60 million years, nothing decomposed dead trees. As they would die or fall over, they'd just stay there, piling up. This is where most oil came from. The massive amounts of trees stacking up before bacteria and fungus evolved to decomposed them. Imagine 60 million years worth of trees just lying around.

*Thought I'd add an edit, since this post got quite a few eyes on it: It was mostly coal that all those trees turned into. Not oil.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

I thought that was coal

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Mushrooms are the great undertaker, the great decomposer. The Langoliers. They are just waiting to eat you, and they're happy to share their fruits in the meantime. They're fattening you up. They can wait.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That Langoliers reference spotted in the wild!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Now we do the dance of joy!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I imagine dead trees were flammable, even back then. And oxygen levels were 15% higher. Can you imagine the forest fires?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Fire wasn't invented back then

[–] [email protected] 33 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Didn't those trees become coal, not oil?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Yes. I made mention of this in a reply to someone else as well. I'm not sure if my teacher (like 30 years ago) told us wrong or if I simply remembered it wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

So that's why every stargate planet looks like Canada

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[–] sun_is_ra 143 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Had to look it up because I didnt beleive

sure enough its correct

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree

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