not really buthttp://io9.com/5210651/man-grows-5-centimeter-tree-branch-in-his-lungRemember when grandpa told you not to swallow those watermelon seeds? Well, he wasn't screwing around. Some poor sap from Russia just had a fir tree removed from his lung.Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports that the 28-year-old patient, Artyom Sidorkin, came to a hospital in the city of Izhevsk in Central Russia last week, complaining that he was experiencing chest pain and coughing up blood.After submitting to an X-ray the doctors saw a lump in the patient's lung. After a biopsying the lump the doctors pulled out a 5 centimeter fir tree branch out of his lung, complete with needles."They told me my coughing blood was not caused by any disease," Sidorkin says. "It was the needles poking the capillaries. It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me."The doctors suspect that Sidorkin inhaled a bud, which later grew into the tiny tree. Thus proving that the monsters from Treeple and Treevenge do exist and they are learning how to attack from the inside.
4/14/2009 5:31:42 PM
Trees grow in the dark?[Edited on April 14, 2009 at 5:34 PM. Reason : without roots?]
4/14/2009 5:33:36 PM
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas?
4/14/2009 5:34:09 PM
4/14/2009 5:36:34 PM
bad ass
4/14/2009 5:39:15 PM
^^ haha]
4/14/2009 5:39:35 PM
Now that is fuckin Tuff/[Edited on April 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM. Reason : too cold]
4/14/2009 5:45:49 PM
that seriously almost makes me and yet it's oddly compelling
4/14/2009 5:56:48 PM
that's what he gets for smokin' trees
4/14/2009 6:10:51 PM
evolution officially disproved.
4/14/2009 6:17:05 PM
what did he do, inhale a seed?
4/14/2009 6:18:10 PM
4/14/2009 6:18:59 PM
inhaling bud is my all time favorite thing
4/15/2009 5:27:25 PM
So how long until this shows up in an episode of House?
4/15/2009 5:38:00 PM
This is the scariest thing I've ever read. I'm never going outside again.
4/15/2009 5:42:09 PM
4/15/2009 5:56:05 PM
shit house would find this shit out in like 5 minutesnot a case for house
4/15/2009 6:25:03 PM
4/17/2009 9:24:25 AM
in mother russia ....
4/17/2009 9:26:22 AM
seeds / buds have enough "fuel" to allow them to grow without light for a short periodyou would think you would have noticed that before now though.... shit just a small bit of dust down my lungs and i cough like a motherfucker for 10 minutes+[Edited on April 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM. Reason : s]
4/17/2009 10:35:06 AM
wtf is the bodily organ around the tree in the picture? Obviously they didn't take his lung out so why would it be in a different organ?
4/17/2009 10:37:59 AM
no way.
4/17/2009 11:02:46 AM
^ it looks like a lobe of lung. however, i call bullshit on this as evidenced by the following excellent and undeniable arguements:
4/17/2009 11:06:25 AM
I say we let MythBusters handle this one
4/17/2009 11:57:19 AM
geekologie.com.http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=man+grows+tree&IncludeBlogs=&IncludeBlogs=1does anyone else read this blog? because so many things on tww are also on there.i know, i know... the internets.[Edited on April 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM. Reason : link.]
4/17/2009 11:59:07 AM
how the hell does it grow wihout sunlight n water n dirt?
4/17/2009 12:17:21 PM
i thought they said it was a hoax
4/17/2009 12:18:07 PM
^^^did you know that the writers for geekologie read TWW daily and thats where they get their topics. loli read it everyday and since then have gotten several other TDUBBERS reading it. awesome website; i hope you also read thesuperficial.com also[Edited on April 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM. Reason : ^]
4/17/2009 12:19:18 PM
Yeah, it's great.I don't remember when I started reading it.. while ago.
4/17/2009 12:22:50 PM
I could do thatI'm Big Business and i approved this message.
4/17/2009 12:31:37 PM
I'm doin it right now
4/17/2009 12:34:51 PM
I'm putting a plane and treadmill in my lungs.
4/17/2009 12:44:54 PM
Will it take off because of forward motion????
4/17/2009 12:46:53 PM
4/17/2009 2:32:37 PM
Probably. You have 2 you know.
4/17/2009 2:36:39 PM
^^Yes, lobectomies are actually performed quite often w/ lung cancer etc.
4/17/2009 2:48:22 PM
depends on pre-operative pulmonary function tests, but people with otherwise healthy lungs can have up to an entire lung removed (pneumonectomy) without any effect on breathing. i doubt you can be an olympic swimmer but for everyday normal stuff plenty of people are walking around with a lung or one or more lobes (lobectomy) removed. also common is the wedge resection, in which a sublobar piece of lung tissue is removed.
4/17/2009 9:05:12 PM
HOYVENGLAIVEN!now how the fuck do you accidentally inhale a bud (not considering smoking bud). pollen, ok...but a whole bud?now growth in the absence of light (to the length of 5cm=~2in) happens whether you want to accept it or not. don't you bury seeds to get plants going?when i first saw the pic, it looked like the headline was gonna read something to where some guy was impaled by a tree, doctors remove tree, forget tiny piece in lung. whatever.
4/18/2009 12:16:23 AM
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4/20/2009 11:10:19 AM
no a sprout can grow without light it will just lack pigmentation (some seeds require sunlight to germinate, most do not)eventually itlll die yes, but a seedling when it initially germinates isnt capable of creating its food through sunlight anyway, its relying on energy stores in the seed until it develops its first true photosynthetic leaves, only then does the plant become dependent on sunlightif you plant a seed two feet under the dirt the only reason it doesnt survive is that it has depleted its energy stores before it could reach sunlight and develop leaves, the seed provided it is able to germinate without light, will still produce a shoot and roots[Edited on April 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM. Reason : d]
4/20/2009 11:47:11 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1169861/Shocked-Russian-surgeons-open-man-thought-tumour--FIR-TREE-inside-lung.html[Edited on April 28, 2009 at 4:13 PM. Reason : i wanted to post the Xray picture lol]
4/28/2009 4:12:04 PM