(May 22, 2019 at 7:55 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Dodder, a parasitic vine familiar to gardeners due to it's demonstrable preference for tomato in the early (motile) stages of it's life, has been found to be used, in turn, by those plants as a neighborhood watch hotline. Cuscuta chemically telegraphs the onset of an herbivore attack, boosting toxin production in unattacked plants.
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/32/E6703.full
Here's a fun one. The steam engine was not invented by Thomas Savory in 1698.....but somewhere around 50ad by Hero of Alexandria.
Yabut, Hero's turbine just sat there and spun, not being connected to the shaft of a naval ship making war on someone else!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
