Plants Make Music

[jts]

Plants make music. Connect an electrode to the root and another to a leaf and there is a varying voltage and the result is music.

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[BaalChatzaf]

Plants make music. Connect an electrode to the root and another to a leaf and there is a varying voltage and the result is music.

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Don't believe everything you see and hear. And even if those tones are genuinely produced (I doubt it), interpreting them as music does not mean they are music.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[anthony]

You have to love the little girl's "Maybe she's shy!"

(But, hell, what is she learning from this?)

The wonders of electricity and electronics, synthesizers and amplifiers.

Flora is wonderful too: without the supernatural rubbish.

[Selene]

And the sexist identification of the plant as a "she" stems from which bias?

I wonder whether the plant would "scream in pain," when you pruned one of it's leaves?

Or, if the "sounds" would change during a drought? Or. during a rainstorm?

[Jonathan]

We should see if we can get those plants to have a jam session with the wind, since they enjoy the same aesthetic style:

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J

[BaalChatzaf]

And the sexist identification of the plant as a "she" stems from which bias?

I wonder whether the plant would "scream in pain," when you pruned one of it's leaves?

Or, if the "sounds" would change during a drought? Or. during a rainstorm?

Do you take any of that nonsense seriously?

Ba'al Chatzaf

[anthony]

And the sexist identification of the plant as a "she" stems from which bias?

I wonder whether the plant would "scream in pain," when you pruned one of it's leaves?

Or, if the "sounds" would change during a drought? Or. during a rainstorm?

Do you take any of that nonsense seriously?

Ba'al Chatzaf

I would be interested in a scientific/botanical explanation for the phenomenon.

Apparently there exists a tiny voltage potential creating a few milli-amps of current.

A guess would be the process of plant electrolysis through the cells.

(That assumes that the attached electrodes are measuring current OUT, and not

introducing current themselves - thereby subtle changes in resistivity being amped-up

into 'music'. Which'd be a complete hoax instead of a partial one.)

And no: while it's rare for Adam to be sarcastic, it happens.

[Selene]

Now Tony!

Just because I used "stems" in the opening sentence!! Hmm, well, yes, I plead guilty to sarcasm in the third degree...

And then humanizing the potential salad ingredients by asking if they "scream" when pruned was a blooming awkward satire, but, hey, I tried!

I was going to tell how my two cousins and I used to shoot milkweeds with our Daisy BB guns because you could see them "bleed" with the white milky fluid when you hit them.

We would practice cutting each leaf off at the join with the main stalk with our BB guns and then cut the entire plant down at about six (6) inches above the ground and watch it fall like a timber cut tree.

It is no wonder that we are superior marksman today.

Now today this is probably an enviro hate crime punishable by imprisonment for leaf life!

Asclepias syriaca showing flowers and latex like sap. <<<<target rich plants!!!!

Adam

[BaalChatzaf]

And the sexist identification of the plant as a "she" stems from which bias?

I wonder whether the plant would "scream in pain," when you pruned one of it's leaves?

Or, if the "sounds" would change during a drought? Or. during a rainstorm?

Do you take any of that nonsense seriously?

Ba'al Chatzaf

I would be interested in a scientific/botanical explanation for the phenomenon.

Apparently there exists a tiny voltage potential creating a few milli-amps of current.

A guess would be the process of plant electrolysis through the cells.

(That assumes that the attached electrodes are measuring current OUT, and not

introducing current themselves - thereby subtle changes in resistivity being amped-up

into 'music'. Which'd be a complete hoax instead of a partial one.)

And no: while it's rare for Adam to be sarcastic, it happens.

I will give you a possible simple explanation. It is a fake.

I will be convinced when two independent scientifically competent investigators produce the phenomenon and show that their equipment is properly working and calibrated.

Beware of videos. And go see the movie -Wag the Dog- sometime.

ba'al chatzaf