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    Video Proof Of The Man Who Grew A Tree Out Of His Lung

    Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    04/20/09

    In reply to Video Proof Of The Man Who Grew A Tree Out Of His Lung
    Am I the only one who noticed the fly in that video? I can't tell if the fly was on the television monitor while they were filming the footage or if the fly was actually on the open lung tissue in the operating room...
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    04/20/09

    In reply to Video Proof Of The Man Who Grew A Tree Out Of His Lung
    Well, sure, it's on TV, so it must be true. Let's see... Heroes, Smallville, BSG, Stargate, Fringe...


    Ahh! Wait!! I got it! They need to contact Dr. Greg House to explain it all.

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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    04/20/09

    @Roklimber: good call.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/20/09

    In reply to Video Proof Of The Man Who Grew A Tree Out Of His Lung
    According to experts, the plant would need light, water, and carbon dioxide.


    Yeah, where would a plant get water/moisture and carbon dioxide in a human lung. It's not like we breathe out Co2 or moisture. WOW, what an idiot. I can honestly believe it. A plant/pod has enough stored energy/food to break through the surface after it is buried. And I am guessing that enough light might just pass through, even diffused, the human chest cavity to allow it to attain growth to such a small height.

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    Image of lazerpenguin lazerpenguin
    04/20/09

    In reply to Video Proof Of The Man Who Grew A Tree Out Of His Lung
    best part of video is the end when the reporter says "it will take more investigating to get to the root of this mystery. ah classic
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    04/20/09

    @lazerpenguin: that's like when you guys called me a sap for being a TRUE BELIEVER.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/20/09

    Maybe the fir tree was inutero and he developed around it.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/14/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    But it was just because the piggies welcomed him as one of their own.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    Tree branch big, yeah, yeah, yeah

    It's not small, no, no, no


    Tree branch got a big big taste

    Big big crunch for a big big bite

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    Can someone explain something to me?


    Did they remove half the guy's lung with the sapling? I'm confused. What is that mass of tissue around the sapling?

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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    04/14/09

    @twophrasebark: science.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    In Russia...
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    Image of Joshua Ludtke Joshua Ludtke
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    [tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com]


    What's that Mr. Peabody AKA the internet?


    You can debunk something io9 sorta published as fact?


    Wow!

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/13/09

    @Joshua Ludtke: I hate it when reality ruins a perfectly good story.
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    Image of Geekmansworld Geekmansworld
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    Not really believable. Not really io9 quality.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/13/09

    @Geekmansworld: Wait, wait, wait. You think "io9 quality" means believable? Oh my dear sir, you do us an undeserved honor.
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    Image of CharlesRockyPamplin CharlesRockyPamplin
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    can anyone come up with a suitable Yakov Smirnof line for this? i was thinking something along the lines of 'pine tree scent breathes you', but that just plain SUCKS...
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    Image of ejs2000 ejs2000
    04/13/09

    @CharlesRockyPamplin: in America, you have chest implants. In Soviet Russia, you have plants in chest!


    I'm so so sorry.

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    Image of volvoxnomad volvoxnomad
    04/13/09

    @ejs2000: I think you win this round.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/13/09

    @ejs2000: Winner.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/13/09

    In America, you branch out. In Soviet Russia, branch outs you.


    ?

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/13/09

    In America, tree breathes air.


    In Soviet Russia, you breathe tree.

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    Image of silver-bolt silver-bolt
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    Needs "nightmare fuel" tag :P
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    04/13/09

    @silver-bolt: you got it!
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    But if he swallowed it, wouldn't it have ended up in his stomach? He must have breathed it or something for it to end up in his lungs.
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    Image of miss_so_unknown miss_so_unknown
    04/13/09

    @astrogirl: THANK YOU. I was wondering the exact same thing.
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    Image of ZephyrMourne ZephyrMourne
    04/13/09

    @miss_so_unknown: That's probably why the article reads:


    "The doctors suspect that Sidorkin INHALED a bud, which later grew into the tiny tree."

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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    04/14/09

    @ZephyrMourne: The article must have been edited, previously it said "swallowed".
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    Image of miss_so_unknown miss_so_unknown
    04/14/09

    @astrogirl: I thought I was going crazy...it definitely said swallowed before.


    (Questioning my reading comprehension as it applies to a man growing a tree in his body = personal fail.)

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    Image of OctaviaAmyntor OctaviaAmyntor
    04/14/09

    @miss_so_unknown: well, if you swallow something incorrectly, it will most likely end up in your right lung (this is why people are at risk for aspiration pneumonia in the hospital/ICU - aka "cough up your stomach contents and swallow it into your lungs" pneumonia) ... the right mainstem bronchus is shaped just right for it to make it easy for stuff to end up in your lung when your epiglottis doesn't close off your airway when swallowing.
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    Image of miss_so_unknown miss_so_unknown
    04/14/09

    @OctaviaAmyntor: That's really interesting - I didn't even think about it that way. I guess I should stop assuming that bodies work the way they're supposed to all the time. Thanks for the insight.
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    Image of eliterrell eliterrell
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    Um, don't most plants wait until they've broken the surface to make leaves and things? These days Pravda reports all kinds of crazy psuedoscience as bare fact. A quick perusal of the English site they have now includes an article on how the Theory of Relativity is going to make Belorussian tanks indestructible and how an 'Indigo Child' invented a new Venus Rover. Also one about a magnetic woman. So pretty much they are the World Weekly News except maybe more people take it seriously.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    04/13/09

    @eliterrell: didn't you do experiments with plants in grade school? The beans could totally grow in the dark with water and Oxygen.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    04/13/09

    In reply to Man Grows 5 Centimeter Tree Branch In His Lung
    Thanks for the nightmares Meredith!
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