r/oddlysatisfying • u/FollowingOdd896 best of the best • 3h ago

Proof that life will always find a way, no matter the obstacles. Brescia, Italy

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u/ToriGallo 3h ago

Nature really just played a flawless game of 1999 Nokia Snake to get to the top of that wall.

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u/TylerBlozak 50m ago

It most likely sprouted from some sediments or soil that were atop the bricks, then the roots did what they naturally do and found their way downwards in order to access water and nutrients.

Also a childhood memory of mine was just unlocked with the very mention of the Nokia snake game. It was on my mom’s phone.

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u/DistinctSmelling 1h ago

Or 1977 Surround on Atari.

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u/Dontgiveaclam 2h ago

Is this the famous square root?

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u/AnActualPlatypus 2h ago

Boooooooooooooooooo

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u/ModeNecessary135 2h ago

We have a winner 🏆

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u/GlassFamiliar42 51m ago

It's just the fourier transform :(

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u/possum_of_time 3h ago

There's an Amigara Fault reference in here somewhere.

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u/LyndonHellBe 53m ago

I came to the comment section looking for this

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u/Auno__Adam 3h ago

“Life will always find a way” is something that triggers me, because no: life will only find a way within certain limits.

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u/TDFMonster 3h ago

Yeah. It's more "Nature doesn't care. It'll do what it wants"

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u/denied_eXeal 3h ago

Ohh life walks backwards. Eww it eats a snake. Watch it dig. It doesn’t give a shit.

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u/Archaeoethicist 2h ago

Life is a honey badger.

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u/Its_a_stateofmind 2h ago

They are pretty wide limits though. The only place we don’t find life is where there is an absence of water. Outside of that, on earth, life is pretty much everywhere.

By evolutionary design, life must be persistent; resistant; obtuse in its constant search for a foothold.

I haven’t found the limits on earth. We have to leave the planet to find the limits. Then it’s simply about absence of water.

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u/Auno__Adam 2h ago edited 2h ago

“On earth”

The planet Earth itself is quite a strongly constrained limit, considering the whole picture, dont you think?

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u/Its_a_stateofmind 23m ago

I’m not talking about off earth, because earth is all I know. Are you aware of something the rest of us aren’t?

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u/PC_Roonjoons 3h ago

Saw a kid with terminal leukemia. Life did in fact not find a way.

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u/the_cnidarian 3h ago

The cancer cells are alive too, sounds like they found a way

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u/Moppo_ 3h ago

Cancer cells aren't an organism of their own, though. They're corrupted cells that the immune system has lost control of.

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u/the_cnidarian 3h ago

The original quote here was philosophical, not about organisms. In fact, if you read the book he is mostly reffering to DNA. As in DNA finds a way to reproduce itself. That's why he mentions it when talking about parthenogensis. If we want to be technical.

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u/Auno__Adam 2h ago

Well, ironic. Those cells killed that kid without descendants, so that specific DNA didnt find anway to reproduce itself.

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u/the_cnidarian 2h ago

That's not irony. Things die...and yet "life, uh, finds a way." Lol, at us debating a book/movie quote meme. Have a good day!

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u/Auno__Adam 2h ago

Man, cancer cells are a glitch of the system. The oposite of life finding a way.

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u/rmtdispatcher 1h ago

Exactly. Cancer kills its own host and then it dies because it killed its own host. Its double evil.

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u/Recent-Result2852 1h ago

So, rampant capitalism?

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u/Auno__Adam 2h ago

They didnt. If you die, your cells die with you.

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u/heftybagman 3h ago

They’re not saying each particular life will find a way; we all know each life finds its way to death. They’re saying that life itself finds a way.

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u/PC_Roonjoons 1h ago

Except it doesn't

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u/Auno__Adam 2h ago

Right, but no. Ask Mars.

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u/heftybagman 2h ago

Look at the bricks in the wall where a tree ISN’T growing.

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u/Auno__Adam 2h ago

So, as I said, not always and within some thresholds.

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u/Ok-Syrup-2574 32m ago

No. Not at all what you said. You have in fact missed the point completely.

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u/Its_a_stateofmind 2h ago

Don’t confuse individuals with species dynamics and population growth. Not to be cold, but you didn’t understand the reference.

And fuck cancer.

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u/PC_Roonjoons 1h ago

I did understand it. My issue is with "proof that ... no matter the obstacles." It's very absolute, and not true.

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u/Its_a_stateofmind 23m ago

I still don’t think you get it.

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u/Furry_Intention_394 3h ago

You did not show him this picture and told him he should not quit? /:

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 3h ago edited 3h ago

terminal that means he is going to die

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u/Greenfieldfox 3h ago

There’s billions of planets with no life. Life finding a way is the exception not the standard.

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u/-dopethronewizard- 1h ago

How do you know that billions of planets have no life? I don't think that we have scanned and analysed billions of planets

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u/Greenfieldfox 26m ago

I travel a lot.

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u/ChronicRhyno Wʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ Wᴏʀᴅ Aʀᴛɪꜱᴛ 1h ago

Or life is super common in this universe, just not yet. What if we are just super early to the party?

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u/Auno__Adam 2h ago

This is exactly what I meant.

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u/ChronicRhyno Wʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ Wᴏʀᴅ Aʀᴛɪꜱᴛ 1h ago

Yet here we are against all odds.

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u/NorthHaverbrookNate 3h ago

Counterpoint, no pothos has ever found a way to survive around me

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u/FireBreathingNun 1h ago

Same. One of the hardiest house plants around and mine is in a constant stage of death.

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u/brynnors 11m ago

I got pissed at mine, chopped it, and stuck it in water. It's thriving now.

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u/NorthHaverbrookNate 4m ago

That's the story of my purple heart, unfortunately it didn't work the two times I tried with a pothos

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u/heftybagman 3h ago

Kinda lucky that there was a gap in the wall shaped exactly like that weird stair tree

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u/The_Truth_Believe_Me 3h ago

Caulk tree in action

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u/TommasoBontempi 1h ago

I'm the mod of r/brescia and I am crossposting! It's such a pleasure to see the city mentioned on this community! And with so many upvotes too!

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u/Terrible_Yak_4890 3h ago

I think that maybe somebody assisted that tree just a little bit, it would have inclined laterally towards the light otherwise

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u/tadayou 2h ago

I think its roots grew from top to bottom, not the tree from the lowest "stair" to the top of the wall. 

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u/Responsible-Meal2851 3h ago

That’s a wizard’s staff!

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u/m-meh 3h ago

Dove a Brescia? :o

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u/TheRealSheevPalpatin 2h ago

This is my hole, it was made for me

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u/ycr007 Satisfaction Critic 2h ago

No source attributed so how certain one can be that it’s from Brescia, Italy? 🤔

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u/Freedomlace 2h ago

I have never seen a tree root look so much like a creature

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u/luca097 2h ago

Hey fellow Bresciano here , did you take the photo near the Santa Giulia by any chance? That i remember seeing something like that

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u/NarwhalEmergency9391 41m ago

I love this.  Itb reminds me of life and how you change paths, have difficult moments,  change paths again,  but you eventually find your way and begin to grow and thrive

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u/Tiyath 3h ago

This, kids is the real rason paper beats rock

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u/coastalpine_07 2h ago

reminded me of snake and ladder

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u/Fun-Clerk3168 2h ago

Let nature speak

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u/Icy_Thing8007 2h ago

So gorgeous!

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u/csizmistvan 2h ago

Especially acaccia.

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u/queenmelody16 2h ago

Stuff like this and tree roots growing in between bricks along the sidewalk is always fascinating, but also rather unsettling to me. Like a trypophobia type of reaction.

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u/Ok-Forever5558 2h ago

Life will always find a way IF it exists

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u/Loud_Quality_7106 2h ago

Proof of nothing. 

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u/RackemFrackem 2h ago

*Example of life finding a way, despite obstacles.

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u/mullerdrooler 1h ago

Maybe the tree was there first and they built the wall around it?

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u/blueviper- 1h ago

Interesting

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u/AmiDeplorabilis 1h ago

Stairway to heaven!

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u/One_Animator_1835 1h ago

Woah

Someone should make a wall that's designed to be filled in like this

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u/1HappyIsland 1h ago

And someone cut it and it came back.

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u/Dab4Becky 1h ago

That’s the second weird ass tree post i see and both from my country.

Huh

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u/Onironauta420 1h ago

Could you tell me where exactly please? I'm from there!

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u/Best_Upstairs_3530 1h ago

Nature really has zero concern for whatever humans decided should be in its way

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u/Knotty_Alder_Would 1h ago

I like how they keep cutting it down but it keeps growing back. The tree is defiant of its fate.

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u/rameopudtil 1h ago

Nature always finds a way and that is the coolest things

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u/Gulvera-ink 1h ago

That is crazy! Bending its own root to survive. Talk about tenacity

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u/NewtonsLawOfDeepBall 1h ago

Proof that you notice the life that finds a way, and don't notice the billions of organisms that quietly die and are never noticed.

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u/AcanthaceaeCrazy1894 1h ago

OP literally copying the same post from a different user 4 hours ago with the EXACT same description.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/fe73MPzKc1

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u/demifan06 1h ago

Watching life find a way to thrive in unexpected architecture spot in why roddly satisfying is the best.

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u/petavores 1h ago

I love how it looks like it politely asked the wall for permission before squeezing through every single gap.

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u/Palankino 51m ago

Cosa impediva alla natura di girare leggermente fuori da muro e di andare dritta verso l' alto?

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u/Lophelia_19 38m ago

It really is satisfying! Life finding its way to a source of water

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u/MentholMooseToo 19m ago

That is definitely oddly satisfying, and a wonder of nature ... but I can provide proof that nature does not always find a way no matter what, just look around my back yard.

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u/Vast-Struggle-4785 18m ago

I thought that was a monkey

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u/narfoleptix 9m ago

Yeah, for now.

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u/cherrymerrie 2m ago

Nature really does find a way no matter how many walls get in the way.

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u/ymartel42 3h ago

Find "a" way not "the" way

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u/Capertie 3h ago

I'm 90% certain this didn't happen naturally based on that's not the path of least resistance. I'm thinking they let it grow a bit, bend the new growth with a new brick and repeated that till the tree was at the top of the wall.

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u/r-b-m 1h ago

“Fuck your wall, watch this” - The Tree