![]() Night Shyamalan's The Happening (2008), in which plant-life revolts against pollution and global warming by releasing toxins against human-life. Several people have commented that The Ruins reminds them of M. ![]() In short, burning the vines might not have stopped them, and the natives might already have figured this out. It's even possible that burning the vines would cause them to spread over a much greater area or cause their surviving particles to "take root" in the lungs when someone breathes the smoke. Poison oak releases the poison into the air, causing severe reactions and respiratory problems in people far downwind. Some plants can even be more dangerous when burned. The following spring, all those plants come back as usual. In rural areas, controlled burning is often used in the fall to burn down standing weeds in ditches along the road or in fields so that uncontrolled fires can't spread through the countryside. Native prairies relied on occasional fires to sustain the native plants and destroy invading weeds and trees. Jack pine requires fire to open its cones so that the seeds can get out, so fire is actually beneficial for helping the plant to spread. For example, bamboo can be burned right down to the ground year after year and still come back. Secondly, fire isn't the be-all/end-all solution for getting rid of unwanted plants. Even if the surface vines could have been burned down, it's likely that the underground plants would simply resurface. Who is to say that they hadn't already tried and been unsuccessful at it? First of all, the vines were growing everywhere, including deep down underground in the shaft. Napalm, Agent Orange, or even plain old Roundup might have done the trick, but the group wasn't carrying any of that stuff. Trying to burn all the vines in the area just wasn't a viable plan. Fifth, the plants would grow back quickly, just as it grows on their clothes in a matter of hours. If they tried to escape, the Mayans would probably kill them anyway. Fourth, even if they somehow set the vines ablaze, they'd probably be engulfed by the flames. Third, when Amy and Stacy were down in the shaft, the vines grabbed the torches out of their hands with no problem. Second, the group didn't have the resources to start a fire large enough to burn all the plants inside and surrounding the temple. They need to be dried out before they can catch fire. Outside of the obvious fact that, if they burned down all the vines, it wouldn't have been much of a movie, several reasons have been suggested as to why such a plan would not have worked. The plants then have direct access to water and nutrients in the blood and grow full-size within a few days.Īfter seeing the movie, many viewers have suggested that the group should have used their liquor to burn the vines. However, it might speed up considerably if the spores enter the body via a bleeding wound, as experienced by Mathias and Stacy. This process may normally be slow, judging by the slow growth of the plants on the clothes of the characters. As seen in the movie, the natives don't hesitate to kill one of their own children, even after only a brief contact with the plants, suggesting that the plants produce seeds, pollen, spores or some kind of offshoot that can enter the body through skin contact. A third method of spreading is by producing offshoots, like vines, that take root wherever they touch ground. Other plants can spread underground by sending runners, like the grasses, or by growing tubers or bulbs, like potatoes and onions. Since living creatures avoided the vines, pollination between flowers on the vines could only occur by wind transport. Making seeds requires pollination, and pollination requires animals, birds, insects, etc., to carry the pollen from one plant to another. ![]() There are three ways that normal plants can reproduce.
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