assuming you could call phototropism "consciousness," that still requires a physical structure, not emanations from the ether

Guys...what about ghosts?

I'm pretty sure Rob is right. I have an 8 sided time-window key crystal that resonates with my root chakra. Surely, it posseses a certain level of consciousness that allows its healing properties to flow.

Hold my hand, and see...

"vodka lasgne [sic] and mushrooms"

for real though, plants exhibit awareness of their surroundings, which is a sign of consciousness. It may be that the deists and animists were right, that everything in the Universe has consciousness, because the Universe has consciousness.

Do you hear that, vegans? It's your salad, crying in pain.

wheat is murder.

what happened to the "all things science" thread

sorry but i gotta be a positivist on these matters-- not measurable or repeatable = philosophy perhaps, but definitely not science

they will eventually experiment on it and show it to be true.

Rob is totally high. He just gave credence to deists and animists....for the first time....ever.

Are you feverish, Rob? Have you been reading io9 for funsies again???

If you want to touch my crystals, Rob, I'll let you! :)

Just be sure and get me high too.

you just single-handedly killed the ghost of francis bacon

I still do not believe in soul, but more that consciousness is an inherent property of matter.

that's just belief though-- i don't even know what you mean by "soul".

as for testing-- we don't even have a way to detect "consciousness". all we have is the other side of the turing tests-- "we have it" and if the machine cannot be differentiated then it's "intelligent". but how do you define it? and worse, how do you measure it? magnetism? electricity? something else we don't even know about?

give cognitive neuroscience a couple of centuries and maybe we can start to investigate the "consciousness" of plants. meanwhile, it's just hocus pocus.

Sam Cooke had soul

What does THE WEED think about you smoking its sex-parts, Rob?

You should feel ashamed. THE WEED would never smoke yr sex-parts (although that might feel nice).

vegetarians don;t know that they are killing plants, living beings. Their morality is so stupid.

^^ that reminds me of randall the honey badger guy but about hydrogen

like he could have said "hydrogen isn't a fucking toy, stupid"

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/...ntcmp=obinsite

Scientists reach temperatures BELOW absolute zero.

I love the future. ti is gonna be AWESOME

Sure, if the future ever gets here.

I still don't have my goddamned jetpack or my fucking teleporter.

To be fair, I posted a cicra 1950s retro-future picture a few months back, and the man not only had your chair, but he was wearing your pants. For reference, I believe you bemoaned the fact that in the future people still watched sports.

Sports are the herpes of culture, it's true.

What does that make Herpes?

I don't know...

...the stadium-funding debate of sex?

(i.e. it never goes away)


I'm reaching here.

It's the unwanted gift that keeps on giving

A culture of herpes.


what do you reckon a culture of sports looks like? Rob's jockstrap, I'm sure.

fun for the masses? the universal brotherhood? lolol.




a chain, linking of all humanity! :P

A Japanese team of scientists have caught a live Architeuthis on video. It was found 1km below the surface near the Ogasawara islands.

Exciting!

The Kracken is real!!!!!

How come my birthday is when Skynet was to go online?

Sarah Connor?

seen divers been bitten by those Architeuthis
they use a hauberk not to loose hand or arms
and stil is strong enough to break bones

find the wireless reloading of bateries da shit
same use as microwave
great
don't know what energy effiency result there are

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0108162227.htm

Physicist proposes experimental test to determine whether one of the precepts of E=MC2 is valid, the idea that gravitational mass is equal to inertial mass. Awesome.

researchers ate Houston's own Rice University have "unveiled a new carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber that looks and acts like textile thread and conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire. In this week's issue of Science, the researchers describe an industrially scalable process for making the threadlike fibers, which outperform commercially available high-performance materials in a number of ways."


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0110142123.htm

A shirt, made from nanotubes? Fantastic job, Rice!

Now perhaps you have time to read up on the near-7 year old data suggesting that migrating nanotubes represent a far worse health concern than asbestos.

El oh el - I'll stick with cotton, thanks.

those would be loose nanotubes, not ones bound up in cables or "wire."

asbestos is still widely used, and very safely. it is only a danger if it is fluffed up into the air.

Hey, if you want to trust that Guangdong Textile Factory #7 has maintained the strict protocol required to ensure that your flouro-yellow ipad6-recharging jumper's "safe and free of cancer-causing agents", be my guest!