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Study shows trees synchronise electrical signals during a solar eclipse (infosec.pub)

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

People think we're apart from nature. When we're really a part of nature. Animals are sentient, that's easy to see. Plants are hard to see as what they are, but they're alive too. Mushrooms we barely understand. And we dont even know what viruses are.

Life is strange and beautiful and varied.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 12 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

WDYM "we don't even know what viruses are?"

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

So everyone already said here they aren't alive. They aren't bacteria, they are viruses. What I remember from college classes is that we can classify them as agents. Or infectious agents. They rely on cells to replicate, which they infect in order to do so.

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