They COULD be evil aliens, but they didn't come here for us. We showed up LOOOOOOOONG after they took over.

Plants don't appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.

*The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences

"Daddy, why do people have to eat?"

[long pull from cig] "Plants... They came here. Now we are enslaved to eat them. It is their way."

If we want to believe the evil alien theory, viruses might actually fit the bill better than plants, with fungi as a possible unlikely second.

You'd need to explain how they're evil. We use them as a resource, as food, as an oxygen source, as shade, as animal habitat and food… even if they had "evil" intentions I don't see what they would have been or how it wood have played out.

This is.....certainly a question I just read.

IN what way would that be evil? They produce the very thing that keeps us alive by transforming what kills us.

No, we are related to plants, like everything else

Trees and plantlife have existed much longer than animals on land. Trees existed before fungus developed the ability to break down lignin, which is why we have huge deposits of coal underground.

probably not, they're about as smart as wood.

I doubt it, they are aliens as for evil, at some point they did caused some fair share of extinction. When they started to grow roots, causing minerals getting thrown to the seas creating deadzones killing a lot of life. Their ancestors likely algae who produced oxygen so much that killed of a lot of life that relied on low oxygen environment. I guess that could be considered evil. But then again they were not aware of doing it, and this process took millions of years. On the other hand here we are speed running to extinction. While being aware of doing it lmao 🤣.

If anything humans are the evil aliens. We arrive, use up all the resources, multiply to beyond sustainability and destroy our host. We're a virus.

No we share a huge amount of DNA with plants indicating common ancestry.

You mean a separate alien species to animal life? No.

That is a possibility that life came about somewhere else in the universe and came to earth later, but that would be all life including plants.

It goes deeper than that. We're fighting the war between chlorophyll and mitochondria.

*hits blunt*

Well trees can communicate through their roots right? So what if clusters of trees act as one big brain either each tree being like a cluster of neurons, and they are more intelligent than even us, but work in such different ways and slower timescales than us that thye don't seem intelligent to us. And we're like parasites that they can't do anything about that gradually destroy them..... or something

Ease up on the drugs