The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth…
…starts with plants.
If the sea rocket detects unrelated plants growing in the ground with it, the plant aggressively sprouts nutrient-grabbing roots. But if it detects family, it politely restrains itself.
A dodder after it attacked a tomato plant. Photo: Justin Runyon/De Moraes and Mescher Labs
I always knew it. I’ve argued it for years. Now we’ve got the possibility that vegetarians have been eating intelligent life forms all along. And they were delicious. Of course, based on the article, it wasn’t the tomato plant that was intelligent….
