r/confidentlyincorrect 2d ago

Understanding photosynthesis, trees, and conservation of mass.

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u/Dreadnoughtus_2014 2d ago

Where does the carbon dioxide come from then, pray tell?

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u/soboga 2d ago

The trees CONSUME it, duh.

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u/Dreadnoughtus_2014 2d ago

The most like blatantly idiotic thing I've seen given how it doesn't even answer the question. Well played.

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u/Child_of_the_Hamster 2d ago

From the AIR, duh. 🙄 Which is obviously totally unrelated to the atmosphere.

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u/soboga 2d ago

Correct. The firmament separates the air from the atmosphere.

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u/jojohohanon 2d ago

It’s what plants CRAVE

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u/CaptainKortan 2d ago

BRAWNDO!

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u/SlowInsurance1616 2d ago

They order dry ice from Arbor Eats.

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u/JoeyKino 2d ago

Underrated smart-dad-level punnage right there

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u/BigZucchini6032 2d ago

From the pantree!

I’ll see myself out.

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u/NickyTheRobot 2d ago edited 2d ago

No, you dunce! That's a tree what pans grow on.

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u/AaronTuplin 2d ago

All this talk of pans is getting me excited for later. Can't wait to cook dinner!

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u/NickyTheRobot 2d ago

Wait a minute... You're not one of them pansexuals I've heard about are you?

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u/AaronTuplin 2d ago

What a consenting adult does in the privacy of his own home is no one's business. But I am gonna make love to the chicken breast that I cook on the pan.

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u/NickyTheRobot 2d ago

All true.

I just wanted to say that if you are you probably want to give it a good 30m to cool off (unless you're into that).

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u/BigZucchini6032 1d ago

What Pandemonium!

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u/SarpedonWasFramed 2d ago

I assume your joking but they get it from tree vending machines, Tree Dash etc. I was homeschooled by an illiterate schizophrenic and even I was taught that.

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u/NickyTheRobot 2d ago edited 2d ago

OK, I get your reply was a joke. But I think this is too cool a point not to share:

Trees in old enough woodlands will have a mycelial network linking them at their roots (and linking all other rooted plants in the area as well). Although from what I understand the plants get all their CO2 from the atmosphere, they will trade with other plants of both the same and different species for micronutrients using the mycelium as a broker. Some of the scientists studying these sorts of forest fungal networks, as well as the exchanges of nutrients and information it enables, have started to call it "the Wood Wide Web" for its resemblance to our internet communications (and for the pun).

Tl:dr; They don't get it from Tree Dash, they get it from treeBay.

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u/SarpedonWasFramed 2d ago

Yeah fungi are amazing. Everytime I hear about it I learn it does something else cool.

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u/tendeuchen 1d ago

WTF? Even the trees are f'ing socialist now!

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u/Winterstyres 1d ago

The Reds have gone to ground, literally

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u/Muldino 2d ago edited 1d ago

I see that your homeschooled...

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u/Kylearean 2d ago

From outside the environment.

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u/Dreadnoughtus_2014 2d ago

Imeagine if someone just replied to this with "GOD. GOD is the source".

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u/ohno 2d ago

They order it from the Amazon.

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u/Dreadnoughtus_2014 2d ago

Airmailed?

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u/CaptainKortan 2d ago

Quit trying to make it about air.

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u/meepgorp 2d ago

DoorDash. Duh.

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u/UnhappyCaterpillar41 2d ago

From outside the environment, the same place they towed that ship to after the front fell off, DUH.

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u/FlashOfTheBlade77 2d ago

The momma tree goes to the store obviously.

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u/Mother_Result_369 2d ago

From the consumarium of course. Where else would they consume it?

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u/TFANOverride08 2d ago

Took the words out of my mouth. Someone doesn’t understand the basics of air.

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u/vitaly_antonov 2d ago

Carbonated drinks!

They also have electrolytes!

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u/re-tyred 2d ago

Fauna...