I heard about this on the radio yesterday - but I never believe anything "they" say.... (without sunlight - Bazaar!)

*mystery-ious, still.

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has someone been 'playing' with cones?

Yeah right. Isn't a more likely explanation that this guy was passed out on a shitload of Vodka and his friends put a piece of pine in his throat? Or any number of explanations of this getting lodged in his lung that don't have to rely on a seed sprouting there.

yeah, how can anything that uses light as its source of energy grow in a pitch black lung? not to mention needing nutrients from soil and water.

It's a Chernobyl Pine.

Every time I read the post title it makes my lung hurt

Well I don't know much about botany, but if the little pine had even a little bit of a root system, it had to be "growing" in some sense. Just inhaling a piece of a pine bough wouldn't come with roots attached. I know plants can do some growing without much light to work with. Did you ever do that experiment in middle school where you put a plant in box with dividers in it, and it grows around them to get to the light? Maybe they can do a little bit of growing without light, just based on nutrients and such?

I dunno, maybe it's some viral video for some pine flavored Russian cigarette or something. heh

This just isn't fair! I have tried growing pines from seeds, and even just seedlings in my yard, and they just die! Do I have to start planting lungs on my front yard to have a growing fir tree!?? And if not just any kind of lungs?? No wonder my trees keep dying.. NOT fair!

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Some how, this reminds me of Harold the tree man in Fallout 3.

>> ^yourhydra:
yeah, how can anything that uses light as its source of energy grow in a pitch black lung? not to mention needing nutrients from soil and water.


In order to just START to grow, a plant needs no light. The seed can germinate in pitch darkness. However, the image they showed of the needles and such is unbelieveable entirely. The needles were huge compared to the size of the entire organism. WTF. Evergreens don't grow full-sized needles when they are sprouts in my experience. Someone correct me.

Doctors find large Man growing around Fir Tree

I'm trying to find the link, but Jay Ingram on @Discovery.ca confirmed this was an April Fools gag that was picked up by the media. If anyone can find it, knock'er out there =)

cancer of the fir...I've seen it a thousand times

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/14/fir-tree-lung.html
"The claim has not been independently verified, and the story ran on what would be April Fool's Day according to the Russian Julian calendar. Russian news agencies have been known to publish hoaxes in the past."

I say *lies

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So why are organizations like Reuters not verifying these kinds of wacko stories then? Or is it just okay for the silly "In Other News" stories to be complete rubbish?

This has made it around to a LOT of newspapers... Apparently they all just copy-paste what Reuters reports. And journalists wonder why newspapers are dying.

Awww

Was just starting to compose my "You could grow trees in the Sahara desert, as long as you water them with Vodka!" thesis...

Obligatory Yakov Smirnoff comment about "In Soviet Russia..." inserted here.

>> ^brycewi19:
Obligatory Yakov Smirnoff comment about "In Soviet Russia..." inserted here.


Yeah, that was on my mind, but I'm having trouble coming up with it...

... how about: in Soviet Russia, plant eat you!

^"Tree grows you"? No, wait.

I mean, the plant would have CO2 from the lungs along with water from the body... i don't know what could substitute for sunlight, maybe another catalyst acted in its place

I've been trying to do this for years with cannabis, then some guy just breaths in a fir tree on accident and has a full on plant growing in him. FUCK.

>> ^steroidg:
Some how, this reminds me of Harold the tree man in Fallout 3.


That was Fallout 2, unless he made a re-appearance in Fallout 3 that I'm not aware of.

In Soviet Russia, trees hug you!

>> ^Xax:
>> ^steroidg:
Some how, this reminds me of Harold the tree man in Fallout 3.

That was Fallout 2, unless he made a re-appearance in Fallout 3 that I'm not aware of.


He did.

It's happened again - this time with a pea - growing inside a man's lung!
http://videosift.com/video/Pea-Plant-Grows-in-Man-s-Lung

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