Re: Plants as network medium?

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From: Kyler Laird
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00

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mnc@diana.law.yale.edu (Miguel Cruz) writes:

>Furthermore, you'd need a lot of power to go from Canada to Kandy, probably
>more than your average petunia would prefer.

The plant communication test that I recall (from a 
long time ago) was a one-way system.  The plant
yielded detectable (and consistent) changes when
pain was inflicted on its owner.

As I recall, distance between the plant and its
owner as not a measurable factor.  The amount of
pain inflicted might have been.

Of course this is all from old non-error-correcting
memory...

--kyler

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Date: 1998/08/31
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