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      <title>Comments On: The Most Beautiful Science Story You Will Read Today
    
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      <![CDATA[Yeah.... because root is never a euphemism for male genitalia and what the root penetrates would be a far stretch from the female.  But perhaps you're right... maybe it's a homosexual tree.
        
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      <![CDATA[Charles, Of everything I have ever read of yours, I like that post the most.<br />
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@6 - Funny, no female parts, reproductive or otherwise came to mind as I read that line.  I think that you are grasping too hard.
        
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      <![CDATA[I agree with charles: science... blah blah blah... fucking... etc
        
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      <![CDATA[@4: I'll swap you some mind bleach for that gun.
        
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      <![CDATA[Anthropomorphic analogies are rather pointless here.  Why?  Who cares?  We have to gain empathetic understandings of alien ways of doing things in order to truly appreciate them, not always translate them into human methods.
        
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      <![CDATA[@6 I think you're seeing things that aren't there. I don't read anything that implies sex (as in gender) of the roots or the mud.
        
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      <![CDATA[Actually, the coastal fog is partially created by the redwoods themselves.
        
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      <![CDATA[There have been a number of announcements of new "dew catcher" technologies that can collect drinking water from humidity.<br />
        
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      <![CDATA[Your casual misogyny of equating the female reproductive system with a mudhole is a new "high" for yourself, Charles.
        
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      <![CDATA[Roots in mud is <i>at least</i> as elegant as fucking.<br />
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1) Plants can release compounds that inhibit the growth of competing vegetation;<br />
2) Plant roots in intimate association with fungal mycorrhizae can exchange nutrients for mutual benefit;<br />
3) Plant roots exert a wide range of effects on the surrounding soil microbial community.<br />
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—and that's just for starters. Try any of those with your johnson.
        
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      <![CDATA[I have a fantasy.  A fantasy about a special gun.  One that violently and totally blows away and obliterates all the pieces of my brain that have been unwittingly exposed to Charles' posts while leaving the rest of me intact and better than before.  I could use that gun right now.
        
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      <![CDATA[Somebody doesn't kiss while fucking, apparently.
        
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      <![CDATA[It makes me wonder what the minimum amount of water a planet needs to sustain life.
        
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      <![CDATA[Coastal fog is how the redwoods are able to grow so tall. They wouldn't be able to consistently get enough H2O up to the tops of the trees otherwise.
        
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