In a sense, all the light harvesting parts of a plant are collecting information about its environment.
Do you often feel like there are thousands of eyes watching you? Taps pen.
I do wonder the resolution that it could detect.
Can a leaf detect the difference in blue light coming from above and green light surrounding it? Can it detect the green and brown light surrounding it? The red light reflecting off a bird sitting above it?
If it’s sensitive enough to the different wavelengths a leaf wouldn’t really be all that much different from an eye.
I mean… yes?
Like that is kind of all a leaf is ‘really’ doing.
I dropped this mostly as a joke, but here is photosythesis:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/47117e3d-82e0-4325-816f-ed2c854d18b2.png
All plant pigments are photoreactive in ‘some’ manner:
Its ancient dusty, pre-covid exposure memories, but I took a course as a graduate student covering the quantum physics of photosynthesis, and that’s basically what a leaf is doing. In the above image, the peaks on the left at around 400-500 can be thought of as blue light, and the peaks around 640-800 can be thought of as red light. Both of these wavelengths of light are involved in photosynthesis, which you can think of as in a manner, solar fusion in reverse. The plant has to take the light from the sun (the product of fusion), and get that energy reattached to a molecule. In fact, iirc, its basically the same electron orbital diagram. And it does make sense, because physically, that is what is happening.
These days I do much more boring stuff, but I always loved photosynthesis. Its probably one of my favorite chemical reactions. Nah fuck that it is my favorite chemical reaction.
So like, yeah. Plants have a TON of information about their environment. Granted, their photosensors don’t have lenses, but they are constantly gathering and reacting to information about the quantity, quality, and locations of light. Afa resolution? Thats like, actually a super interesting question. Not having a lens is a big drawback.
Came for the meme, stayed for the scientific studies.
The trees are watching us.
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That’s cool, I’d go on a second date with you.
Well that’s super fucking cool
You bastard. I was supposed to work tomorrow. Now I am going to depending down this hole.
I am resisting the will, I’ll just date him so he can tell me all about it
Well, tell me when you have learnt it all, I’ll date one of you to learn after that
Thank you for the links!
A bit horrifying that actual research points to plant vision.
the likelihood of triffids grows every higher
their loss king
So if you have plants in your bathroom, they’re watching you poop. Neat!
That kind of explains why I can’t keep plants alive… I’m traumatizing them so bad they want death.
For 90% of people it’s watering issues. Mostly overwatering.
Ya, usually I either overwater or forget about it entirely for extended periods of time.
That’s why I have mainly plastic plants now. Much less fussy.
5 words: Beer bottle drip feeder attachments.
Drip feeders can in fact be excellent. Unless you’re already the kind of person who will forget about those as well.
But wouldn’t they be, like, “yum, fertilizer!”?
Probably not with my diet.
Plants: “Eat more phosphorus and potassium!”
Not if they have to see that guy with his pants off!
plants are farming us all for food. playing the long game.
They smell the food, they can see the food being made, but by the cruel hand of fate, they just can’t get the food.
What? That chick is gonna miss out. What dating app was she using?
Plantnet.
Adding a personals section could provide funding for years.
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I’d eat it in a salad, then morph my life away!
