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zupancia t1_j268uug wrote

Reply to comment by nimrod1138 in Strange worlds got a isn’t as bad as the hate, was fun, had a lot of heart and was marketed totally wrong. by Fortherebellion72

Pando is the name of a giant tree thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

Also Clade is a great name for an explorer because it's a reference to evolutionary biology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade

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nimrod1138 t1_j276okx wrote

I caught the Clade reference, having done research in that area myself. It also just sounds like a cool name.

I did not know about pando though. Granted, I had heard of the concept of super-organisms like pando (I think there’s also a fungus that’s similar)… but didn’t know pando. And again, why pando (but not directed at the film but at the scientists who named a quaking aspen that)? I have to say though, I appreciate that aspect of the story more knowing about the real-life pando.

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