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Date: 6/30/2021 11:03:00 PM
From Authorid: 5301
...Okay. I better get in here first and tell the story before Hey Larry gets in here and attempts to bamboozle you with some stupid tale he came up with while dreaming about Spam. It began any many eons ago, on a planet untold light years away from the newly developing solar system that we know as our own. Tremendous gas build-ups within that planet's core were causing it to slowly tear apart and it was only a matter of time before the gas erupted through the planet's crust and was set aflame by the nearby red giant star that had nurtured the race of cellulose-based goliaths known as the Deciduous. Scientists on this planet issued a warning to the leading politicians of the day and, as is wont to happen in political arenas, a decision to evacuate could not be agreed upon due to the leader of the opposition party being an obstructionist jerk. These same scientists, realizing that total catastrophe was near at hand, made a planet-wide coniference call to others of their ilk and came up with a last ditch plan. It was decided that a young seedling; the son of a prominent scientific family would be sent forth on an intergalactic canoe to some distant world in order to give their race one final chance to live long and prosper. What happened next is the stuff of legends and myth. The seedling was jettisoned into the black void of space days before the home world exploded. Across the endless expanse of the still expanding universe this tiny canoe made it's path, finally entering a solar system with a G-type planet that onboard computers deemed an exceptional habitat for the now young sapling. This planet was our earth. The intergalactic canoe plowed a furrow as it came to rest on the surface of Earth and the sapling was planted by a robotic arm manufactured in Canada. Over time and many upheavals of that still forming world, that sapling sent out roots, dropped seeds and spawned the growth of major forests. This is how trees came to be on our planet.  |
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Date: 7/1/2021 5:23:00 AM
From Authorid: 5940
My esteemed by complicated colleague usually takes the long way around to explain something, much like a politician. Let me simply the answer to this by using the character Groot…… Groot was a Flora colossi from Planet X, the capital of the branch worlds. He did not get along with his fellow saplings, instead preferring the company of the "Maintenance Mammals" who the other saplings treated with prejudice. After Groot killed another sapling to defend a maintenance mammal it was brutalising, as well as releasing a human subject that was kidnapped for scientific purposes, he was exiled from the planet by the "Arbor Masters."[7][8] With no place to go, Groot set to explore other galaxies.[8] Hence that’s where the root of the matter lies.  |
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Date: 7/1/2021 5:46:00 AM
From Authorid: 5301
...Kudos to Hey Larry on his hogwash alternate (yet false) explanation on the origin of trees on this planet. His story can be easily debunked by watching Episode 49 of "Ancient Aliens". which clearly establishes that Groot's spaceship hit an iceberg in the Atlantic and sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The wreckage was initially discovered by Dr. Robert Ballard while on his historic quest to locate the resting place of the ill-fated ocean liner "Titanic" which suffered a similar demise in 1912. |
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Date: 7/1/2021 6:28:00 AM
From Authorid: 5940
At least your convoluted reply wasn’t as long winded this time. Say, isn’t it time for your “ epicure?” |
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Date: 7/1/2021 8:51:00 AM
From Authorid: 5301
...if by convoluted and long-winded you mean factual and educative then I suppose that I must plead guilty to your allegations. You seem to be the type of person that believes that some supreme deity created all life and substance in less time than it takes to pass wind after a hearty partaking of sustenance at the local Taco Bell instead of believing the truth that evolution played a critical role in elevating humankind above apes and apes above even lesser forms of life. Still, one can see that in your case that evolution doesn't treat everyone as fairly as it might their neighbor and for that, I send my sincerest apologies in your direction. |
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Date: 7/1/2021 10:55:00 AM
From Authorid: 5940
The thing about the theory of evolution that gets me (and I'm not religious btw) is that the apes and monkeys are smarter than the human race. Therefore the theory is just that. Because we haven't evolved. |
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Date: 7/1/2021 12:04:00 PM
From Authorid: 5301
...the apes and monkeys may be smarter than humans NOW because we've begun to devolve over the last fifty years or so. |
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Date: 7/1/2021 12:25:00 PM
From Authorid: 5940
Let's agree to disagree. You say poutine and I say french fries with catsup. Of course you're bound to come back and tell me " ketchup". |
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Date: 7/1/2021 1:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 5301
...sure, I can agree that you're disagreeable. |
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Date: 7/1/2021 3:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 5940
Common ground , lol! |
Date: 7/2/2021 5:42:00 PM
From Authorid: 21435
74  That's a good question. I think aliens visited our world during a full moon and broad cast all manner of seeds and in a couple of weeks. Voila! We went green. Write on......  |
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Date: 7/2/2021 6:33:00 PM
From Authorid: 5301
...Kronk...probably closer to the truth is that those aliens ate a lot of seeds in their diet, stopped by Earth for toilet time and moved along. Some of what they left behind sprouted and that's how the planet got green. |
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Date: 7/2/2021 10:53:00 PM
From Authorid: 52489
Trees evolved from shrubs, in a long, complicated process. They "came of age" during the Carboniferous Period. This was when plants with roots first evolved. Here's a cut-and-paste on the evolution of trees: The first plants to invade the land did so about 430 million years ago in the silurian, before vertebrates invaded the land. Only after vascular tissue and after that roots evolved could trees evolve. After the invasion of land by plants a big adaptive radiation followed, in Devonian times. The first trees (big plants [30 meters] with woody stems) evolved about 360 million years ago and had roots and leafs (begin carboniferous). Amongst these first trees were lycopods, now species from this group are only known as small mosses (Selaginella or spike moss). Lycopod trees could only live in moist-environments because they reproduced by spores, which need moisture to enable sperms to move to the egg. In the devone a second innovation came about: the seed. The seed enabled plants to colonize non-wet land, beginning a total change of much of the lands since plants play an important part in the formation of soil because they slow down erosion. The first seedplants evolved trees with seeds which thus colonized the lands and formed the first vast forests. One of the first kinds of large trees was Archaeopteris (if you google that name you can find more information easily). In the carboniferous important swamp trees were lycopods. There were also calamites the size of a small tree (horse-tail related). Cordaites was the first of the group gymnosperms (naked-seeds) that colonized the land for quite a while. At the end of the permian time (280 million years ago, when the first reptiles appeared, but no dinosaurs yet), lycopod trees had declined and cordaites had dissappeared. Gymnosperms, including confers, took over land environments.  |
Date: 7/3/2021 12:43:00 AM
From Authorid: 42945
Hi Harold, nice to see you around here posting...I have no idea how trees became part of our planet and I'm interested to know also...  |
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Date: 7/3/2021 11:08:00 AM
From Authorid: 5301
...oh sure! Arion had to get all technical and correcty with his reply! Sorta takes the wind out of the sails of us thoughtful types. |
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Date: 7/3/2021 7:15:00 PM
From Authorid: 21435
I was going to say something similar to what Arion said, but I.....eh, couldn't. Way to go, bro! We "need" the "voice of reason," now and then. Write on.... |
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