https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsuUHbjXA7Q&t=6s

Sure, trees are weird, Chaosolous.

引用自 kbiz：

Sure, trees are weird, Chaosolous.

It's not a zero sum implication, Kbiz.

I am aware of my post history, thank you.

I've never seen them, the forest is always in the way. :(

meat trees are normal

I only see mushrooms.

If you think they are weird for you; imagine the looks of disgust they give you when you work as an almond milker.

Seriously though from a tree's perspective humans are a pretty vicious creatures.
They run around stabbing you with spigots to drain your sap, cut your entire families down to build their homes out of, or are constantly ripping off your fruits or nuts.

You would be weird too if you had generation after generation of hairless apes hacking, sawing and burning you down into extinction.

You probably haven't seen my art college thesis project. The theme was the World Tree. The collection featured surreal, alien-like blue trees made of felt, hand-painted with fabric paints. They were decorated with ceramic animal figurines and pearls, and mounted on frames. There was also a felt blue bird with a long tail inside a cage made of silver-painted branches. The whole installation was quite large and took up a lot of space. My homeroom teacher said my work was one of the most romantic in the class, and I graduated with honors. I have some photos but I don't feel like sharing them yet.

Their texture and shape are weird, I see a lot of them every day

They should be like on Minecraft, cubes, breakable with bare hands and growing in minutes

Trees are relaxed. They're in no hurry to go anywhere.
Willows just hangin' around.

Yes, that stupid thing came up in my recommended as well. No, I'm not going to watch it. Kurzgesagt is such an egregious and almost insultingly ugly form of propaganda. Totally dumb and presented in a confidently wrong yet infantalizing manner.

Here's my meme from back in the day.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3612730899
https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/17428378126689741863/93C465559D760026D254DC025BC0778D4C09E9E4/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

All plants are terrifying. luckily we move at different speeds.

Haarrrumm, ho hum.

Just about everything in this world is weird if you think about it. Some of the most mundane things in the world, if you give a brief thought to, are actually uncanny AF. Trees are a good one. They literally take carbon out of the air and add it on to themselves, and for whatever bizarre reason end up doing that in multiple directions and splitting into a bizarre branching structure. But like, if they're gonna do that, why do they consistently have a large stretch of trunk that doesn't, right at the bottom? What sorcery is this?! If we didn't take them for granted, we would find them incredibly bizarre.

Or clouds/rain. Freaking clouds/rain. I have never bought the elementary school explanation for them. I presume we've updated our understanding of how this works, or else my teacher just sucked, because it makes no sense at all. Water vapor rises. Ok, fine. It condenses on dust particles that are just for no reason a mile in the air (freaking WHAT?) and for some reason they're still low enough density to stay afloat, despite now being liquid (I swear, the textbook should have just said "we don't know.") until, suddenly, all at once, they all get too dense, but instead of floating down gently, like you'd expect from something presumably slowly getting more dense, they fall like rocks. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and I wanna live in the world where we all know it.

引用自 Devsman：

Just about everything in this world is weird if you think about it. Some of the most mundane things in the world, if you give a brief thought to, are actually uncanny AF. Trees are a good one. They literally take carbon out of the air and add it on to themselves, and for whatever bizarre reason end up doing that in multiple directions and splitting into a bizarre branching structure. But like, if they're gonna do that, why do they consistently have a large stretch of trunk that doesn't, right at the bottom? What sorcery is this?! If we didn't take them for granted, we would find them incredibly bizarre.

Or clouds/rain. Freaking clouds/rain. I have never bought the elementary school explanation for them. I presume we've updated our understanding of how this works, or else my teacher just sucked, because it makes no sense at all. Water vapor rises. Ok, fine. It condenses on dust particles that are just for no reason a mile in the air (freaking WHAT?) and for some reason they're still low enough density to stay afloat, despite now being liquid (I swear, the textbook should have just said "we don't know.") until, suddenly, all at once, they all get too dense, but instead of floating down gently, like you'd expect from something presumably slowly getting more dense, they fall like rocks. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and I wanna live in the world where we all know it.

I dubbed the failure or refusal to engage with this "teleological deficiency". I'm sure if you worked at it enough you could figure out how to dampen various regions of the brain till you replicate this tendency. Done early enough in childhood, and without obvious stiulus or source, they would think it's just who they are.

On the rain question I suspect it's something to do with the voltage gradient between the ionosphere and the earth's surface. There's probably some electrostatic dipole thing going on. eg there are papers out there on using graphene wedges with a certain geometry to raise the freezing temperature of water, control its nucleation pattern, and control how it crystallizes. The angle and geometry was very precise. This could be done with group formation and by following voltage gradients till it reaches wherever and then it becomes rain. Maybe dust is involved naturally, maybe not.