• @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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        153 months ago

        Admittedly the image quality is “this meme first appeared in a dirty magazine in 1986 and has been re-compressed twice a year since the internet was invented”, but there are falling lines above the cucumber, and a little puff of smoke where it hits the ground. It’s depicted as falling out of a tree.

        • @mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          It’s common to use a trellis with cucumbers to have their vines grow vertically instead of covering all of the horizontal space of a garden. That makes cucumbers “hang” in the air like a fruit on a tree, and would lead to those motion lines in a fall.

            • AwesomeLowlander
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              223 months ago

              Well before Newton discovered gravity, the vines would have been floating freely around. His discovery is what triggered the cucumber to hit the ground.

        • @PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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          23 months ago

          The apple falls next to a tree trunk, the cucumber falls next to vines and leaves near the ground. You wrong.

    • @ulterno
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      33 months ago

      The cucumber just fell out of a peddler’s basket who was moving ahead of the woman under the tree.