Russian Doctors Find Fir Tree in Patient

Yeah, you read that right. Artyom Sidorkin, 28, from Russia recently underwent an operation to remove what doctors thought was a cancerous tumour. After removing half of Artyom's lungs, the surgeons saw that there was actually a fir tree stuck into the side of his lungs.

No one really knows how it got there because generally speaking trees need light and sufficient nutrients to grow. Considering that the fir tree had roots surrounding blood vessels, it can be safely assumed that the 5cm tree received sufficient nutrients from 

 Artyom's blood to grow. It would be interesting to know if it is possible to grow any plant by only feeding it water, glucose and some other minerals. If it is, we could genetically modify plants to have no leaves or flowers and to only grow fruit. It would certainly make growing plants easier in areas with particularly infertile ground, or maybe we could use it to grow plants in space. As long as a planet had Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen, we could grow fruit. Well...only if we could find a way to take atoms from the air and to rearrange them into glucose. Funnily enough, this is exactly what plants do. We could certainly use that to take more CO2 out of the atmosphere and to store it in the form of a super glucose, and therefore save the planet from global warming, from who knows? Artificial Photosynthesis?

Final Thought Byte : On a slightly more political note. People always complain about how bad the NHS is, just be glad you're not in Russia. They cant even tell the difference between cancer and a tree! (Credit goes to my girlfriend for this FTB)

Tags : Artyom Sidorkin, NHS, Russia, Fir Tree, Artificial Photosynthesis