@[email protected] to Showerthoughts • 1 month agoI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.message-square114fedilinkarrow-up1296arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1274arrow-down1message-squareI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.@[email protected] to Showerthoughts • 1 month agomessage-square114fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@elephantiumlinkEnglish1•1 month agoInteresting! So the part we pick is and eat is like a strawberry more than, say, lettuce. Naively, it’s easy to think: it grows in the ground, therefore, it’s a plant. There’s a lot more than meets the eye, though. Mushrooms are the closest things we have to aliens Star Trek: Let’s figure out how to hook up the translator to Data so we can talk to them. Real life: Let’s see whether they’re tasty.
Interesting! So the part we pick is and eat is like a strawberry more than, say, lettuce.
Naively, it’s easy to think: it grows in the ground, therefore, it’s a plant. There’s a lot more than meets the eye, though.
Star Trek: Let’s figure out how to hook up the translator to Data so we can talk to them. Real life: Let’s see whether they’re tasty.