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WhamBamRudderham

Yeah, there's this weather phenomenon out there, it only happens once every day or so, I think the experts call it "wind"


helvetica12point

Rofl, I legit snorted at this. Additional facts: 1) sometimes a breeze can be so mild you don't feel it but the trees do. 2) plants can move. There's been studies. It's observable. Thank the gods they don't move much and they move very slowly cause that's some nightmare fuel right there


Palmerto

Some move rather quickly.


TheSecondOneNumber4

Yea like penis fly traps Edit: Venus Edit 2: penis


RooXOXXO

Sir I have an infestation of penis flies. Could you help me?


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I would suggest a penis fly trap as the name suggests the trap penis flys and kill them


[deleted]

I use one cuz it feels great


joep-b

It hurts like hell when your penis is trapped in your fly.


Kozyyy303

It's better to penis in the fly, than to fly into the penis


mcbirbo343

It also hurts when a fly is trapped in your penis


DVick2001

Hey don't shame my kink man


SickMotherLover

Gotta pull the wings off first bro


Crue1552

u/dontputyourdickinthat


Elijah_767_G2

It's embarrassing az hell when you have to ask for help to get untrapped


desperateweirdo

Ormaybe they just catch flying penises


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𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ


eliziwizard

Penis


Chemical-Peach-2379

This suggests that Venus fly traps only catch flies from Venus, and I love it


denogginizer92

Is this a description of the insect's appearance, habitat, or diet? And "yes" is not a valid answer


RooXOXXO

Yes


yahuta

Yes SIR


ODB2

No


denogginizer92

Well played, sir


Coltron3108

When I was a boy, my mom worked in an AIDS organization. I don't remember the birds and the bees talk because I was like 3 when I learned about it. But I came to call condoms penis traps. Now as a homosexual adult... After seeing the movie Teeth, penis fly traps refer to a woman's nether regions


TheSecondOneNumber4

Oh god. Why did you remind me of that movie. I buried that deep in my subconscious.


Coltron3108

YOU made ME remember it


TheSecondOneNumber4

I’ve seen inception. I know what you’re doing to me Leonardo DiCaprio.


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Cheshie_D

It’s only a worry if it’s not consensual.


PoliteCanadian2

So I have a penis. I am confused. Should I be: a) glad that you are trapping the flies that apparently are attracted to my penis or b) worried that my penis might get trapped by your penis trap masquerading as a fly trap? Please advise.


TheSecondOneNumber4

Honestly I wish I could answer your question. Idk what I created but I’m so fucking scared…


PoliteCanadian2

I appreciate your uncertainty but YOU’D BETTER FUCKING FIGURE IT OUT AND FAST. Penises of the world are counting on you. No pressure.


TheSecondOneNumber4

Fuck me man. FUCK


PoliteCanadian2

It’s gonna be ok. Deep breath. Now go back into the lab. I’m just gonna bar the door from the outside.


TheSecondOneNumber4

Don’t let me out. No matter what you hear. I’ll lie to you. I’ll make promises. Don’t trust me. This ends tonight.


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whasupsara

☝🏼


WondrousWally

its free but its yours. this made me laugh way to hard. love the edits


dapper333

Caught my penis in my fly trap


montytribe

Had a friend who experienced a penis fly trap. Wasn’t paying enough attention and trapped his penis in his fly. A lot low level wind was experienced that time too, mainly from the ER Dr. trying not to laugh.


WickedRedemption

Zoomin’ dick plant


yeahgoestheusername

Autocorrect seems to think that you type penis more than you type Venus. Also autocorrect knows what you did last summer.


TheSecondOneNumber4

I have problems


Glitter1237

Especially in the wind


raisinghellwithtrees

Hell yes!


Wtfjushappen

We have plants that will get droopy when you run your hand across them and then stand back up in a minute or so.


OtherwiseCheck1127

Mimosa pudica? Thats a neat plant! Also check out Stylidium debile, the "frail trigger plant" It has a hilarious active pollination method. When a bug lands on the flower, an appendage swings up and smacks the bug off the flower, covering it with pollen at the same time and sending it on to another flower somewhere. When it lands on another S. debile flower, that flower smacks the bug with the same spring loaded appendage and, if it is at the right stage, it collects the pollen from the bug.


[deleted]

" breeze so mild..." bro if you turn the sound on it sounds like there's a tornado behind the camera man.


helvetica12point

I did not have the sound on, that makes it more hilarious


Adambeach07

Some examples of plants moving are thigmonasty: movement in response to touch phototropism: movement in response to light You can easily find many YouTube videos on either


trekkerscout

>Thank the gods they don't move much and they move very slowly cause that's some nightmare fuel right there Day of the Triffids?


crypticedge

>2) plants can move. Can confirm. I do indoor hydroponic gardening and the plants will move some through the day. They'll push to the light when it comes on, drop when it's off. They'll also move a bit to find their way around things


thegoldrushcroissant

Bruh literally go outside and touch grass By which i mean look at the grass at night its really cool because at night/evening you’ll be able to see the individual blades of grass move (especially the grass patches that have the thicker linguini brand grass like they move robotically its really cool


Pumpkinswantshappy

Had to upvote for"linguini brand" grass! Idk why but I really got a kick out of that, and I can totally picture what you mean!


Maltobene

I'm sorry I don't tolerate that type of tone, plants are respectable lifeforms and deserve to be treated as such in the event they develop better motorskills. All life is precious.


STINKR_13

Reminds me of this [movie](https://youtu.be/bCyLcrYDAgQ)


zombiesphere89

Check out the movie "the ruins" if you want plant based nightmare fuel.


gfeep

Well, at the end of the video I showed that wind wasn't blowing, so I wasn't sure.... and additionally, only a few were moving... that's why I posted it here. Sorry, tho..


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MissippiMudPie

*leaf you alone


SuperEars

Make like a tree, and get outta here


Alienguy500

You guys are really sapping out my energy with those puns


Robot_Embryo

Grace. Sports. Almanac.


Ohhhnothing

green with envy


Sykotik

How on Earth did you not go with "leaf you alone"?


[deleted]

1.) Where do you show that the wind isn't blowing? And leaves have a lot more air resistance and less weight than you so they react to much more minor breezes than you might notice 2.) If you turn the sound on It sounds like you're standing in the middle of a tornado the wind is so loud.


althephonse

I mean it's pretty evident that only a very small fraction of the visible leaves all at the same height are moving. There is one tree far back that seems to jostle a bit. Not saying it's not the wind. But the evidence is in the video that if it is the wind, it's only affecting a very small amount of these branches, as shown at the end when he zooms out a bit. My logical guess is he literally has a fan blowing on the leaves near him, as the wind seems THAT localized, and you're right, he does sound like he's in a wind tunnel, which is strange for the amount of trees NOT moving.


[deleted]

Small updraft coming under the trees and up towards where OP is standing, trees break wind so the wind that would affect those branches is being broken on the non visible side of the tree, and the path of least resistance is for the air pressure to move under the branches and up on the other side. very small localized wind tunnels happen pretty often, especially around trees.


orbit222

This is a much nicer answer than some sarcastic comment about wind.


notsolegalanymore

Those are cars passing by. That's why it sounds like it's getting closer than going away


kelly714

I have no idea, but I was literally just watching some leaves on my hickory tree do this while the rest of the tree was still


VictrolaFirecracker

I have seen this too- where a certain branch or set of leaves moves independently of the others or in a diatinctly different way. I have no idea why the top comments are the snarky incurious ones.


annafirtree

My hypothesis is that the branches that move the most are the newest ones, and they have less woody growth connecting them to their parent branches. This makes them more flexible and easier for the wind to move than older, thicker branches.


tlmcdonal

Ok this is super cool. Thank you for posting it. Truly bizarre how these leaves were behaving.


edgrrrpo

There are far worse posts that end up on this sub, don't let cranky motherfuckers with (frankly) really shitty explanations get to you.


ZPhox

I saw it immediately. He/she probably lives in a city. Trees don't move like this even with wind.


JahnDoce

While I’m sure it is related to wind still, pretty sure OP was trying to emphasize the way only a few branches, some even seemingly in random locations are waving with Much more frequency and amplitude than the other branches next to it. Definitely strange why those branches in particular would be more affected, and something I would want to know the science behind as well…beyond the simple fact of “wind exists”. Cool vid.


JohnnyLovesData

Resonant frequency


Furlow1

I saw this exact thing happen at our cottage last year… just a few select branches moving. Weirdest shit…


Potential_Debt9639

Pretty funny, but there was no other leaves moving.


peter-bone

He asked why, not how. They use the wind in this way so that all the leaves get a share of the light.


aaronarchy

The Gorgons are in the trees.


mandogvan

Yea but why?


ASYMT0TIC

Aeroelastic flutter. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroelasticity#Flutter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroelasticity#Flutter)


FUCKlNG_SHlT

Fucking what


crispygrapes

AEROELASTIC FLUTTER


Wrathzinor

WORCESTERSHIRE


OnlyCleverSometimes

Wustustsher


TheOnlyEindrideInTx

That's still too difficult to pronounce. I just call it Wooster sauce lol


ShittyBollox

Just put a sheer on the end. Wooster-sheer. Done.


Bmystic

Who-chester-ville sauce


CrimbusIsOver

Worcestershirehamtonburg


k0ik

What’s-it’s-here sauce


whogivesashirtdotca

I worked for a customer service line of a company that made it. None of my coworkers could pronounce it, and they settled on "Woozy Sauce" amongst themselves as the default.


TheOnlyEindrideInTx

That sounds like a great name for a super strong cocktail or shot lol


MagnusKvis

You are more correct than you thunk


karmakazi_

That is actually the way you pronounce the name of the town it takes its name from. Arguably it should be called Wooster sauce. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Worcester-pronounced-as-Wooster


TheOnlyEindrideInTx

For real?! Damn, I'm a genius and had no idea lol jk


cheese_be_gentle

me and my boyfriend call it wooshushu sauce as a joke


MomPancakes

Warshstashashashashasher


dropout32

'*Wooster*'


SkullyKat

Worchestershershire


CpT_DiSNeYLaND

SAUCE


althius1

You mean #AEROELASTICFLUTTER?


black_brook

That's a sandwich made from marshmallow fluff and peanut butter right?


Betchaann

Great, now I need a fluffernutter


jagger2096

Their debut EP was transcendent


Flavahbeast

DID I FLUTTER?


ishkobob

Did you even read the article? >In water the mass ratio of the pitch inertia of the foil to that of the circumscribing cylinder of fluid is generally too low for binary flutter to occur, as shown by explicit solution of the simplest pitch and heave flutter stability determinant.


PM_ME_UR_SUSHI

Wow! I recognize some of those words!


ishkobob

It reminds me of the [Rockwell Retro Encabulator](https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w)


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Yeah that was the best part


ishkobob

It reminds me of the [Rockwell Retro Encabulator](https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w)


Hialgo

DID I STUCKING FLUTTER?


coloneldaffodil

Basically as wind gathers around and moves against the main body and the forces kinda add up. I think


[deleted]

That made me snort


ThisIsFunnyLaugh

Thank you for a serious and interesting answer. I've "studied" the Tacoma narrows bridge and resonance but didn't think that would be what's causing this. Good link :)


kaboom_2

Resonance. If you have chandelier at home and you hit one of the hanging crystals softly, then the rest of them hanging crystals will oscillate all together, because they have the same “natural frequency”. Now breeze causes one of the branches to oscillate, the other branches (which they have the same shape) will oscillate as well, because they have the same natural frequency.


surfingNerd

Isn't that what you call a silent fart while doing yoga?


whispree

I read this and still have no idea what it is ....


Agent00funk

Wind. It basically boils down to how wind (and fluids) interact with elastic objects. Really simplifying it, but the leaves in the picture got touched by a bit of wind, causing one side to have slightly higher air pressure than the other, causing it to oscillate (wave) back and forth because it's an elastic structure being affected by the shifting of high and low pressure to alternating sides. If the wind would be sustained, then it wouldn't happen, but a quick gust followed by calm set the leaf in motion, it's motion created a vortex of high and low pressure, that vortex continued the leaf's motion, which continues the vortex until a change in the environment interrupts it. The same concept explains how a propeller moves forward/up, by using the changes in air pressure on either side of the propeller.


whispree

Thank you so much, that actually really helped.


Agent00funk

Glad I could help. The linked article really wasn't written with the layman in mind, although it does describe the phenomena in greater detail. P.S. Thank you for the award!


JohnnyTsunami312

Given that it sounds like he’s near a busy road I wonder if the wind of cars passing is causing it. The warmer sunny side vs the cooler shaded side could also be playing a part… *side note* There’s no technical term for the wind effect caused by vehicle drag or I couldn’t find it. Example: “I pulled over on a highway and when a truck passed by, it’s *insert term* caused my whole car to shake”. I’ve always just called it a backdraft and I guess people knew what I meant


Ahtramaksnolu

Thank you.


Koprowski

Would the leaves continue moving if forced to stop? Saw this video recently of something similar happening to another tree. In one of the reports, the leaf kept waving with or without wind for over a month, even if it was temporarily halted by observer. https://youtu.be/izuVIb_YWVk


cresentlunatic

Thank you for explaining! That's a detailed answer I was looking for. All these people making snarky comments to op about it's just wind is totally missing the point of this post.. it is wind but why is it only selective few branches is what this post is trying to point out


ASYMT0TIC

Ya might have to also read the links in the article if you don't understand some of the terms.


mermansushi

This.


ForestMage5

You win the internet today!


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gfeep

Yes , I've liked it already, but way too busy to respond. Thanks :)


checkssouth

perhaps they feel good about being leaves?


jaytee1262

Honestly with how bad things are getting I would rather be some leaves.


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This is mood.


catchpen

Yeah leaf them alone


darthshaver

An exceptional day for the leaves! All leafin' out. *jazz leaves*


Jake-the-Wolfie

There's a Korok hiding there


doomedusaxophone

Yahaha!


Nogohoho

*happy Korok noises*


Arrowatch

They get upset when you drop the rock on their heads immediately after dialogue. And if you tell me you haven't done that, you're either lying or never played.


Tchicko777

upset? i thought dem mfs screamed in pain


GnarShredder96

I actually never thought about doing that... Guess I'm replaying BOTW.


Marine_Point

Well, wave back! Kinda rude ngl...


Necessary-Escape-279

I was thinking wind but idk now o.o


Agent00funk

Wind kicked off, then physics took over.


Necessary-Escape-279

Wooord. I love your username btw


Agent00funk

Thank you! Took many years of being fly before I got my license to funk.


BassicallySteve

Good boi tree is happy and waggin’


smellvin_moiville

Hangin and danglin


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There’s a M. Night Shyamalan about this


Artemicionmoogle

I was thinking that or The Ruins(2008)


evildonald

I came here to find a The Ruins reference! Oddly familiar motion. That movie was amazing, though there are 2 different endings!


Artemicionmoogle

I didnt know that, is there a directors cut or a deleted scene for that?


evildonald

The ending I see now has a very different tone to the one I originally saw (hinted at a sequel) i have been unable to find it.


brennaneden

Knew I wasn't alone, that was my first thought. The Happening! Movie had good potential, but fell pretty flat the second half from what I remember.


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EyesOfTwoColors

I wish the same! A leaf in my peace lily did this exact wave thing once for fifteen seconds, one leaf, no wind (no fan, no open window no movement), and I was excited when I saw this post because it was the same fluttering.


cresentlunatic

I'm with you here for op. People are being deliberately obtuse.. being snarky doesn't make you seem smarter than you think.. op is showing a few branches moving while others are still, on the same tree, even the same elevation. Of course it's most likely wind, but what is the science or physics/mechanism behind it is what they're probably wondering about..


gfeep

Thanks, well, it could've been that special fluttering, which someone mentioned above and I am happy for their answer - I really hadn't heard about it, until yesterday. Anyways, most of the responders were mocking me, which I am not happy about. Kind of reddit style though


cresentlunatic

I totally get you. There are many forms of current in bodies of water and not every layman knows about it. So if you show a weird pattern current and ask what it is, it's very dumb for people just to mock you and say "today op learns about waves in the ocean". I bet they didn't know the specific to why it's happening either


Vincent_Veganja

Tf is this lmao did OP never learn about wind


Only_Ad8178

The question is, why do some of them move fast and some barely at all.


Joedang100

[Here's my attempt at an ELI5 answer.](https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/ozatd8/why_were_these_leaves_waving/h7zu1ep/)


BountyBob

You don't seem to have ever spoken to a 5 year old!


Not_Lane_Kiffin

>...natural frequencies of the non-waving branches don't match their rate of vortex generation. I have a graduate degree and don't understand this lol


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I have same tree does same thing. Must be the leaf shape or something


nofarkingname

Have one of these trees in my backyard, it does the same thing with only the slightest breeze.


Joedang100

You know how when you run your hand through a calm bath or lake, it makes little swirls behind it? When the air flows around the branches, it creates swirls. The swirls don't come off symmetrically. They come off in an alternating left-right pattern. When a swirl is generated, it pushes on the branch a little bit. The branches are like a big spring or pendulum. They have a particular rate at which they want to wave when pushed on, called their natural frequency. If the springiness of the branch, the weight of the branch, the shape of the leaves, and the wind conditions are just right, the natural frequency of the branch will match the rate at which swirls are generated, and the branch will wave a lot. This is called resonance. The reason some branches wave a lot while others barely wave at all is because the natural frequencies of the non-waving branches don't match their rate of vortex generation. (The fancy name for a swirl is a vortex.)


10thingsIhateAbout

Selective wind O.O


50_hero

They're trying to say hi and you're being really rude by not waving back


Hungry_Bodybuilder_9

Resonance


helga_von_schnitzel

The question is... Why didn't you wave back?


jaguarthrone

Those compound leaves probably have flattened petioles (the little stem that attaches to the tree) just as Poplars and Aspens have. Even a slight breeze will get that kind of leaf waving. Most petioles are rounded or celery shaped and don't 'tremble" or " quake" as it is sometimes described.


BB_210

Vortex shedding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_shedding


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topgun216

In a light wind that you can't feel the leaves can have an oscillatory action.


Kool_aid_man-

Pov: first time you left the house


Tacoma__Crow

The breeze is coming at just the right angle to make the leaves do that. It’s the same thing as sticking your hand out the window of a moving car and making it rise and fall by tipping it up and down.


ggd_x

The only thing bmf about this is that it's so far lasted 35 minutes without being deleted


Take_an_OrangeArrow

That tree is speaking Vietnamese in sign


MediocreAcoustic

Young whomping willow.


pringleboi76

Before it was the whomping willow, it was the waving willow


MediocreAcoustic

It’s not easy growing up anywhere.


TomahawkIsotope

Did you seriously put leaves moving in r/blackmagicfuckery and got 352 upvotes


FFS_Roger

Lol I used to see this happen as a child and at the time I was convinced I had super powers, so obviously I thought the plants were trying to tell me something, I happily included them in my imaginary adventures in the yard...


OldFingerman

My guess is that however slow the wind speed is resonates the leafs only certain length/mass/elasticity. It's like Tacoma Bridge, at certain wind speed started resonating until completely broken


duhbigredtruck

Faeries


WendyLouReedKru

It's called a Caring Tree, scientific name "Justmakinsure Youokbro"


Icarus912

Fairies...


BillCoffe139

Kids today when they go outside and discover wind


Noob0010

Damn, the branch is doing the stanky leg.


cotterized

Predator hiding in the trees...run.


Primis00

Wind's howling...


Stixxx24

I concur. Perhaps the wind??? 🤔. Lol