Passionate passion fruit

[Joelcool7]

izaaz101 said:

Joelcool7 said:

izaaz101 said:

So, what can you then conclude from that information?

Umm that a picture was photoshopped then released onto the internet where it spread virally to several different sites, inturn getting more hits on Google. If it was real their would be other cases of it and other pictures and I never saw any.

Or that it was discovered in Brazil recently, posted on their local news and then posted later by Global Post and subsequently spread through the internet like wildfire.

Analyzing your bold statement, nothing new could ever be discovered, which is completely illogical. There would be no "first" of anything. Everything would need to have a precedent. For instance:

Random researcher in a microbial lab: "Here is a new strain of e-coli, this is the only known colony of this strain."
Joelcool7: "If it was real their (sic) would be other cases of it and other pictures and I never saw any."
Random researcher in a microbial lab: "Well, I just created it via mutagenesis, this is the only known colony."
Joelcool7: "If it was real their (sic) would be other cases of it and other pictures and I never saw any."

For all we know, the seed that spawned this tree could have been the only known seed to germinate and survive to a reproductive age, which contained this particular mutation, which could be anything from an abnormal cell wall-cell wall attachment, leading to an elongated fruit, due to the effects of gravity. Or, maybe the cell-cell receptors were mutated, leading to extending growth, akin to a cancer, rather than the immediate stop we usually see.

Okies I actually read some of the articles and I guess it seems legit. Keep in mind I took photo editting in University. We were taught about how many things we could do with PhotoShop. Our teacher worked for Victoria Secret. We were given copies of several magazines and were told to figure out which pictures were fake and which ones weren't.

Many sites and publications edit the hell out of their pictures then report them. So when I see something online and see only one picture uploaded. Its very hard not to write it off as a scam. Infact even after reading some of the articles I am still sceptical that they are real.

Also if a scientist did do that, I would expect proof more then just one single picture posted on the internet. You know how much stuff is complete utter BS but released on the internet. Look at the medical community for example. A sergery on vains seems to be a cure for MS. Well even though a scientist claimed to have discovered the cure they don't recognize it as such until it has been seen in multiple cases and can be proven.

So yes one single case, makes something really hard to believe. It needs to be repeated in other instances to gain credibility. At least other pictures. Example as we learnt in our media class , sometimes one news organisation releases a photo and story and another organisation will then pick up that article and re-write the story and distribute it again. Then the story is re-written again and again using the same source material.

So it is very easy for a single photoshopped image to be spread around and reported by tons of organisations. Now I have read some of the articles and it seems alittle more possible. But am still sceptical.

Is their anyone here from Brazil who knows if this story has any credibility?