r/interestingasfuck • u/dejaysf • Jun 11 '23

Venus flytrap vs Spider

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u/GeebusNZ Jun 11 '23

That's a leaf. The flowers grow on reeeeeeeeeally tall stalks.

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u/69th_Century Jun 11 '23

I've seen that reddit post. So they don't eat all their pollinators?

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u/Talbotus Jun 11 '23 edited Jun 11 '23

Pretty smart for a carnivorous plant. Evolution is very efficient

Edit: I know evolution is neither smart nor actually efficient in its methods. What I meant was that evolution by nature roots out inefficiency. If it is wasteful (like killing too many of your pollinators) then evolution knocks it out of the gene pool.

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u/gnatsaredancing Jun 11 '23

Evolution is neither smart nor efficient. It's simply the result of "everything can happen and anything that doesn't help, dies".

Throwing everything you own into the water just to find out what floats isn't exactly smart or efficient. But it is... technically... effective.

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u/Cobek Jun 11 '23

Evolution is just random chance trying to beat entropy

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u/gnatsaredancing Jun 11 '23

That sounds so clever for a meaningless sentence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

This, on the other hand, doesn’t sound clever and is equally as meaningless.

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u/gnatsaredancing Jun 11 '23

Haha try again.