Re: Plants as network medium?

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From: Gerdjan Busker
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00

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taguebw@REMOVEwfu.edu writes:

> In article <35E704A9.5EFFDA9C@technocage.com>, "Michael J. Fair"
> <michael@technocage.com> wrote:
> 
> > Plants like to be talked to and have music played for them.  Scientists
> > have proven that this increases their rate of graowth.  This implies
> > that they can receive messages and will respond to them. ( Piece number
> > 2)
> > 
> 
> A minor point: there is NO evidence that plants respond to music or being
> spoken too. There is lots of psuedo-science claiming such but no scientist
> has proven this. 
> 
> But, plants do respond to external signals: light (intensity, wavelength,
> direction), temperature (both hot and cold), gravity, touch, volatile
> compounds from other plants,etc.

Ah,  so what you are saying is ... an optical global network using plants?
With a backup option of using gravitational waves or infra red or in the
worst case TCP/IP via polination packets carried by bees?

GJ.

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From: Gerdjan Busker <g.busker@ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Plants as network medium?
Date: 1998/08/31
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