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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I remember this mythbusters episode. They basically detected that plants “might “ scream or signal to other plants. They got some weird outliers too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You misremember it a bit. They saw "activity" when the thing was connected to the plant. Then they moved the plant into a steel container and the readings stopped. They hypothesized that they detected something like vibrations from a busy street etc, not a plant "screaming".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s been years since I’ve seen it, so yeah that’s probably right

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mythbusters episodes are all over YouTube free for everyone. Just a little FYI in case you feel nostalgic

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

Oh im gonna watch some mythbusters.