(I did not watch all of the video--just enough to make sure it was what the title said it was--hope it is all work safe)
Some other strange vids on that page as well.
The video was painfully slow and took to long to load, hah, but I can only guess as to the cause.
I assume the guy was working in his yard, and must have apparently inhaled some small seeds from his fir tree. I know if the fir tree is anything like a banyan (in terms of sizes of seeds), they're almost microscopic... so tiny that they are quite literally just under the size of your average grain of sand.
I guess it was the perfect temperature for the seed to germinate, and... well... there you go...
Fir trees are conifers--like a pine. The seed is in the cone, and falls to the ground on a little wing looking thingie. bout the size of a small watermelon seed, but not as thick and not as heavy. Each little spade of the cone has a seed on it. I'm on dialup, and watched about 1/2 of it without too much of a wait.
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jimbolaya Member
Posts: 10652 From: Virginia Beach, Virginia Registered: Feb 2007
I call The seed would have to have water, temp and light to grow. You might convince me it had some water, and maybe the right temperature, but you are not going to convince me it had enough light. It didn't have any light. This is either a fraud or he ate a tree.
If he "ate a tree", it would have gone thru his digestive system--not his respiratory system. Conifers seem to do all right in the very far north, where they have a lengthy period of darkness.
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jimbolaya Member
Posts: 10652 From: Virginia Beach, Virginia Registered: Feb 2007
If he "ate a tree", it would have gone thru his digestive system--not his respiratory system. Conifers seem to do all right in the very far north, where they have a lengthy period of darkness.
Did you miss the big smilie on my "He ate a tree" comment? I'm still not buying it.
Are our lungs "light proof"? I know you can hold a flashlight up to your hand and see the light on the other side. Perhaps the sun does penetrate our bodies more than we think?
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Boondawg Member
Posts: 38235 From: Displaced Alaskan Registered: Jun 2003
BS I say. The guy could have inhaled a piece of tree and it then looks like it is "growing". Fir trees need sunlight. Plant a tree in the sunlight and plant one in a closet, which one will grow?
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Khw Member
Posts: 11139 From: South Weber, UT. U.S.A. Registered: Jun 2008
I call The seed would have to have water, temp and light to grow. You might convince me it had some water, and maybe the right temperature, but you are not going to convince me it had enough light. It didn't have any light.
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Belgian endive is also known as French endive, witlof in the Netherlands, witlo(o)f in the USA, chicory in the UK, as witlof in Australia, endive in France, and chicon in parts of Northern France and in Wallonia. It has a small head of cream-coloured, bitter leaves. It is grown completely underground or indoors in the absence of sunlight in order to prevent the leaves from turning green and opening up (etiolation).
Some plants can grow in the absence of light. Now that being said, I do not beleive what I saw in the video, grew there. It was to developed. I small sprout, okay I can see that if it was a fern or something with a small spore like seed, a twig with a bunch of developed pine needles on it... No, I just don't see it possible.
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Boondawg Member
Posts: 38235 From: Displaced Alaskan Registered: Jun 2003
Some plants can grow in the absence of light. Now that being said, I do not beleive what I saw in the video, grew there. It was to developed. I small sprout, okay I can see that if it was a fern or something with a small spore like seed, a twig with a bunch of developed pine needles on it... No, I just don't see it possible.
Upon a closer look, I now agree:
Don't the color green in plants come from light. To grow White Asparigus, you grow it covered in hay, so very little light gets to it.
Snopes, anyone?
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Most plants don't need light for seedlings and can grow several inches with out it. The inside of your lungs is a nice moist and warm climate. The tree would have stopped growing when it ran out of energy stores in the seed.
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Khw Member
Posts: 11139 From: South Weber, UT. U.S.A. Registered: Jun 2008
The tree would have stopped growing when it ran out of energy stores in the seed.
And that's why I find it so hard to beleive. I don't think the nutrients in the seed would have gotten it that big and so well developed. It looks like a clipping from a grown fir tree.
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fastblack Member
Posts: 3696 From: Riceville, IA Registered: Nov 2003
Did anyone else notice the direction the needles were facing? If this truely did happen the end that is sticking out in boonie's picture yould be where the roots would be. Pine needles grow from the stem or branch and the exposed pointed end will face up towards the sun. Even in the guy's kung it won't produce leaves (needles) in a different manner that what it's genetics tell it. Ther-fore I call BS on this one. ( my father was a horticulturist and chief grower at a plant nursury in San Antonio so thats how I know about this)
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Khw Member
Posts: 11139 From: South Weber, UT. U.S.A. Registered: Jun 2008
ill view the video when i get home but as a professional arborist, i deal with trees all day long and i inhale seeds all day long (sometimes) and i have yet to grow a tree in a lung. Just viewing the picture i would have to call bs on it thats not a seedling it looks to me as though its a end of a branch that the guy got in lung somehow. but like i said ill add more later when i have time to view video.
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blackrams Member
Posts: 32783 From: Covington, TN, USA Registered: Feb 2003
BS I say. The guy could have inhaled a piece of tree and it then looks like it is "growing". Fir trees need sunlight. Plant a tree in the sunlight and plant one in a closet, which one will grow?
For the record, seed germination varies greatly by species.
Some seeds require heat, some require cold stratification.
Others require complete dormancy (darkness), while othes require immediate sunlight.
The lungs do have some moisture, for one there is moisture in the air, and if the guy takes a hot shower every morning, he'll have enough moisture in his lungs to help the seed germinate and probably keep it watered.
Originally posted by Boondawg: Upon a closer look, I now agree:
Don't the color green in plants come from light. To grow White Asparigus, you grow it covered in hay, so very little light gets to it.
Snopes, anyone?
Yeah, I kind of agree too... it looks to me like he must have inhailed that.
What you see in the picture there, is clearly a cutting of a mature tree. A tiny sapling, or whatever, wouldn't have needles that massive... (I would think?).
Another thing that makes me say BS is why did they remove that much tissue??? If it wasn't a tumor they would in no way need to remove that...that would be half his lung sitting on that table. Why not just remove the tree?????
Similair story from about a year ago: There's a lady that had bad breath and breathing problems her whole life. one day, she was getting an x-ray for something else, and they found a piece of a pine tree in her lung - she had inhaled it when she was a little girl (christmas tree). It was nasty.
the tree story doesn't freak me out as much as the brain worm one... that video was nasty!
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Similair story from about a year ago: There's a lady that had bad breath and breathing problems her whole life. one day, she was getting an x-ray for something else, and they found a piece of a pine tree in her lung - she had inhaled it when she was a little girl (christmas tree). It was nasty.
the tree story doesn't freak me out as much as the brain worm one... that video was nasty!
Are you talking about the one where the guy had a boil on his head, and never did anything with it... so it began to fester and caused an infection. This infection the started to eat away at the skull bone, and then exposed his brain to the open elements? It was an older guy who clearly never took showers (otherwise that wouldn't be an issue). But his brain was exposed to sunlight and flys were laying eggs in there. Since maggots obviously ONLY eat rotting flesh, they were eating all the infectious tissue... thereby leaving his brain (and gaping open wound) relatively clean. The picture is quite nasty though...
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The seed would have to have water, temp and light to grow. You might convince me it had some water, and maybe the right temperature, but you are not going to convince me it had enough light. It didn't have any light. This is either a fraud or he ate a tree. 
I'm still not buying it. 
