The Meaning of Human Life

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As I was planting a rhododendron today, I discovered the above! I realized that, while many creatures (think elephants) before us have uprooted plants, we are surely the first to uproot them from one place and then stick them back in the ground somewhere else.

We exist to offer plants mobility!

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  1. Woody11:39 AM

    Giving plants mobility is just part of the process of getting a small tool to Titan.

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  2. Bob Murphy8:05 PM

    I dunno Gene, this sounds very "meme-ish" to me... :) Shoot, I can't remember how it goes, something like, "A human is a library's way of building another library" or something.

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  3. gcallah12:02 PM

    I forgot Kurt was there first.

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  4. TokyoTom6:52 AM

    Gene, while we help propagate plants deliberately, plants long ago developed ways to use insects and animals to propagate themselves - as parts of the fertilization and seed propagation processes. That`s why plants have fruits, for example.

    You might also be aware that certain ants (leaf cutters) raise various types of fungi - which does involve carrying the fungus around whenever a new nest in established.

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  5. gcallah12:43 PM

    So far, my thesis is cool -- I was referring to the grown plants, not seeds, and fungi ain't plants!

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  6. TokyoTom10:29 PM

    If your thesis is narrowed from offering plant mobility to the uprooting and replanting of mature plants, then it bears up remarkably well.

    The only problem is that very few people actually do any transplanting of mature plants, leaving them sadly without any meaning for their lives.

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