https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DmCxvgsFy4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jheyPYv23_Ii am posting these despite the fact that we are 3 posts from bump limit, but congratulations, /meat/. whether it was because jannies didn't notice, though i rather doubt that after 4 days, or because they hopefully laxed off a bit, we are back to full threads it seems. so, who is planning to make the next thread? dead hours are soon, and whether or not we should call it explicitly a /meat/ thread, or have our list of resources available in it is up to the person who makes it, so there are a few questions to get through before we commit, such as whether or not we should wait for a while before posting the next thread, or post it immediately before this thread dies so that we can link them. i suppose i'll leave it to the thread baker but know that those are things to consider.
>>32118490plant life is kind ot simplistic, so it probably could regenerate incredibly fast, but i was thinking it would be more efficient to use it to simply give them the ability to move more. action potentials are a massive, sudden spike in energy that is used to give neurons logarithmic activation effects. "is the charge in this neuron >70% capacity/50% cl/ca/k/na? flood the axon with it's signal via a wave of energy. else: do not fire." this is the process that is used to activate muscles, too, but once it fires, it takes a while for it to build up ions to get it back to whatever percentage it activates at.
this is why it is more effective to have short breaks between workouts if you've ever visited /fit/. animal muscles are full of those kinds of interactions, so while one is recharging, there are still others that can be active. your body has regulations on how many of them can be used at any time, but if you were to use all of them at once, you'd have something like 9 times the grip strength you'd normally have for a second and then your arm would go completely limp, and it would probably feel terrible all over. plants have fewer of these, which is why most of their motions are fairly simplistic, but they try to keep it viable by making it rapid, which takes more energy. with /meat/ chuubanite, the time it takes for the neuron to recharge it's ions can be reduced, allowing the plant to use it's rapid motions more often.
this is more like doing a workout, feeling weak, taking coffee and some protein and going back to your exercise routine feeling fully rejuvenated. not necessarily regrowing entire limbs, which, while possible, would take significantly more energy, which is not efficient for nature. anything it can do with an actually edible part of itself, it can do better with a seemingly edible part of itself that either is fast-acting deadly poison, or something that is protected by the trap part of the plant. having /meat/ chuubanite also means plants can regenerate very fast if it were damaged, and plants that evolve to utilize being damaged, or even killed, to their advantage are absolutely possible, but most would tend to avoid unnecessary damage.
still, it would be thematic. we said that part of our way to make chuubanite usable was using certain herbs. what if there was a herb that used our chuubanite in a very efficient way to effectively heal any damage it received almost immediately? what kind of plant do you think would be selected for it's ability to regenerate like that? what kind of selection would lead an organism to develop that way? maybe in response to insects constantly eating it to the ground? maybe it's a root that is constantly trying to expand. maybe it's something that requires a very specific environment to function, and instead of evolving to fit the other environments, it evolves to be able to heal when those environments would normally kill it in a way that makes it thrive even in the worse conditions. but what kind of plant could do that?
one of the more successful tree variants in the world, pine trees if i am not mistaken, have leaves that encourage fire spread, and cones that can survive being burned. as a result, burning forests down can sometimes be helpful, as the nutrient-rich ash gives the new growth the perfect environment to grow bigger, and stronger than it was before the fire. what if the regeneration process is so effective, it increases the strength of the parts that it regenerates? similar to how muay tai intentionally fracture bones and have calcium-rich diets to increase bone density, or indeed how muscles get stronger as micro-tears are filled with proteins at a higher concentration than before they were torn, leading to the development of muscles, so too can our chuubanite speed up this process, but only if the proper nutrients are available. while plants are more energy dense as the first step of the energy process, there is a reason carnivore are generally by far the more advanced, intelligent species. carnivorous plants would benefit from that too. let's talk more in the new thread.
