IN what way would that be evil? They produce the very thing that keeps us alive by transforming what kills us.
I meant like before “us” plants came along and made whatever was alive back then (our ancestors way up in the ladder) dependent on them. But someone else clarified they came first. So ya, they aren’t I guess.
I think we’ve been far more evil towards them than the other way around. We cut the most beautiful of them to make furniture after all.
^big plant shill
You mean a separate alien species to animal life? No.
That is a possibility that life came about somewhere else in the universe and came to earth later, but that would be all life including plants.
*hits blunt*
Well trees can communicate through their roots right? So what if clusters of trees act as one big brain either each tree being like a cluster of neurons, and they are more intelligent than even us, but work in such different ways and slower timescales than us that thye don’t seem intelligent to us. And we’re like parasites that they can’t do anything about that gradually destroy them… or something
probably not, they’re about as smart as wood.
If anything humans are the evil aliens. We arrive, use up all the resources, multiply to beyond sustainability and destroy our host. We’re a virus.
Nice try, Agent Smith.
Ease up on the drugs
Keep an open mindset and be more curious in life 👍
okay we will do that if you ease up on the drugs.
No, we are related to plants, like everything else
It goes deeper than that. We’re fighting the war between chlorophyll and mitochondria.
You’d need to explain how they’re evil. We use them as a resource, as food, as an oxygen source, as shade, as animal habitat and food… even if they had “evil” intentions I don’t see what they would have been or how it wood have played out.
No no, see, maybe they’re evil because they produced an oxygen rich atmosphere in the first place and caused the collapse of other would-be lifefor-
Uh? Cyanowhat did what? You mean not the trees? But weren’t they up here during the carbonara making all the coal? Oh, I see. Ah. Okay.
No we share a huge amount of DNA with plants indicating common ancestry.
They COULD be evil aliens, but they didn’t come here for us. We showed up LOOOOOOOONG after they took over.
So we are the evil aliens then
I highly suggest reading the Hitchikers guide to the galaxy. A theme along these lines comes up, but less evil and more incompetent.
Honestly, it checks out.
from an evolutionary biology standpoint… We’re basically on the order (and quite possibly worse than) of the giant meteor that killed off the dinos. Like, if you tally up the number of extinctions caused by humans, the Anthropocene Era is a mass extinction event.
But we’re also possibly an asteroid that might feel bad and undo it. The asteroid never bothered to un crash into earth.
how do you un-extinct a species?
Even the people bringing the “woolly mamoth” back are incorporating elephant DNA because the genetic samples simply don’t exist in any sense of integrity. Same for the people “bringing back” the dodo.
Trees and plantlife have existed much longer than animals on land. Trees existed before fungus developed the ability to break down lignin, which is why we have huge deposits of coal underground.
Plants don’t appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.
*The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences
This is…certainly a question I just read.
If we want to believe the evil alien theory, viruses might actually fit the bill better than plants, with fungi as a possible unlikely second.
There is one type of virus that you can not convince me isn’t some kind of mechanical device. Other viruses and bacteria look organic; but bacteriophage look straight up like man-made robots.
I just looked up some images out of curiosity and you aren’t lying. It looks like a little spider/robot/ drone thing with the sole purpose of injecting it’s syringe into things.
Fungi scare me
This is by far my favorite answer.
