Joelcool7 said:
izaaz101 said:
So, what can you then conclude from that information?
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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.
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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.