Plants as network medium?
twibberley at llamacom.com
Tue Sep 1 08:37:47 EST 1998
Gerdjan Busker wrote:
> taguebw at REMOVEwfu.edu writes:
> > A minor point: there is NO evidence that plants respond to music or being
> > spoken too. There is lots of psuedo-science claiming such but no scientist
> > has proven this.
> > But, plants do respond to external signals: light (intensity, wavelength,
> > direction), temperature (both hot and cold), gravity, touch, volatile
> > compounds from other plants,etc.
> Ah, so what you are saying is ... an optical global network using plants?
> With a backup option of using gravitational waves
Cool, a whole new meaning to the term *ether*net.
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