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minus-squareToffeeIsForClosers@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoExactly! I’ve said this for years, every time the meme comes up. I’m saying it right now to anyone nearby. I mean, I have no real basis to know if canopy friction is the reason or not but I’m saving this post as support of my confirmation bias anyway.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoIt’s sort of how trees don’t have limbs lower than the height of a box truck along major roads.
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoSo trees have evolved truck-sensing organs in the span of mere decades? Unbelievable!
Exactly! I’ve said this for years, every time the meme comes up. I’m saying it right now to anyone nearby.
I mean, I have no real basis to know if canopy friction is the reason or not but I’m saving this post as support of my confirmation bias anyway.
It’s sort of how trees don’t have limbs lower than the height of a box truck along major roads.
So trees have evolved truck-sensing organs in the span of mere decades? Unbelievable!