[FrankR]

The really cool part is, the grass grows back.

Now if humans had that power, and say, got a limb cut off, or even just a finger...it would be painful, but if it grew right back, no big deal. Maybe we should start a group to protect the poor grass from its anguist...we could call it PETA...Plants Emitting Terrible Anguish...ask for donations, protest to Congress, and chain ourselves to every lawn to prevent it from being cut.

I just read something a couple of weeks ago about how the smell of new mown grass is a "relaxant" of sort for humans, sort of an aeromatic stress reliever.

Way back when I was a kid I had some "Tales of the Crypt" comic books, which were later banned by the Comics code; I remember a story about a guy who invented a radio receiver that would pick up the sounds of plants in pain...like a tree yelping as someone was cutting it down...or a rose bush crying when someone cut off a rose...well, it was silly then (and fiction) and it's silly now.

Maybe algore could pick up on it and make it his new cult..."Plants have feeling too".

[SgtHooper]

But what about the PTDS each of these blades goes through for each cutting.

[Erasmus]

Various, ummm, ‘researchers’ have done electrical measurements on plants to try to gauge their response to stress. Typically, they would adopt resistance meters of various sorts, often adapted from the ones used to measure the Galvanic Skin Response in human subjects.

L Ron Hubbard was one of those.