• Rhynoplaz
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    231 year ago

    They COULD be evil aliens, but they didn’t come here for us. We showed up LOOOOOOOONG after they took over.

        • FuglyDuck
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          51 year ago

          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.

          • Echo Dot
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            01 year ago

            But we’re also possibly an asteroid that might feel bad and undo it. The asteroid never bothered to un crash into earth.

            • FuglyDuck
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              01 year ago

              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.

      • @DrRatso@lemmy.ml
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        21 year ago

        I highly suggest reading the Hitchikers guide to the galaxy. A theme along these lines comes up, but less evil and more incompetent.

  • AmidFuror
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    181 year ago

    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

  • Ook the Librarian
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    131 year ago

    “Daddy, why do people have to eat?”

    [long pull from cig] “Plants… They came here. Now we are enslaved to eat them. It is their way.”

  • @pacology@lemmy.world
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    131 year ago

    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.

  • Smuuthbrane
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    111 year ago

    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.

    • @pocker_machine@lemmy.worldOP
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      21 year ago

      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.

  • @blackbelt352@lemmy.world
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    61 year ago

    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.

  • @wabafee@lemmy.world
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    31 year ago

    I doubt it, they are aliens as for evil, at some point they did caused some fair share of extinction. When they started to grow roots, causing minerals getting thrown to the seas creating deadzones killing a lot of life. Their ancestors likely algae who produced oxygen so much that killed of a lot of life that relied on low oxygen environment. I guess that could be considered evil. But then again they were not aware of doing it, and this process took millions of years. On the other hand here we are speed running to extinction. While being aware of doing it lmao 🤣.

  • Echo Dot
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    11 year ago

    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.

  • HobbitFoot
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    01 year ago

    It goes deeper than that. We’re fighting the war between chlorophyll and mitochondria.