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Cerium
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Walking Trees, Parasitic Flowers, and Other Remark...
I suppose the mangroves walk as much as a glider in Conway's game of life glides.
glenstein
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I was having brain freeze trying to understand what exactly was meant, but this is a brilliant way of putting it.
djmips
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But not even that much I don't think. But perhaps you are thinking along the lines of a whole forest moving. Trees dying on one side, born on the other. Over a long timescale the forest 'walks'.
Cerium
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How is that different than a horizontal tree growing on one end and rotting on the other?
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