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945442 No.945442 [Reply] [Original]

>the mycelium is sentient, it knows you are there

>the earth invented the internet for its own benefit

*cough, cough* here man, its a little rough

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html

>> No.945463

>fungi covers the earth

>fungi feeds off of radiation

oh. my. god.

>> No.945462

i can tell that man has eaten his fair share of magic mushrooms.

very interesting though, ive grow my own before and it is amazing how easily they grow and flourish in something as simple as cowshit...they don't even need light...

>> No.945476

>>945463

What?

>> No.945483

>>945476
Hes talking about giant organism of fungi spanning across thousands of acres.

That feed off of radiation.

>> No.945487

>>945483

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070522-fungi.html

Yes? Go on.

>> No.945496

>>945487
Its just... you can imagine a biosphere of loosely connected organism. But to imagine an organism under all of that that is... literally... tying everything together... pulling minerals out of rocks and shit...

MY MIND

>> No.945498

>>945462
Cow shit? I uses a substrate of vermiculite and brown rice powder...

Also, cow shit is anything but simple. Just because we can't process it yet "lesser" lifeforms can doesn't mean it's not as "complex" as bread.

>> No.945504
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945504

>>945496

FREAKIN OUT MAAAN

>> No.945511

>>945504
YOU'RE NOT TRIPPING MANG

YOU ABSORBING THE CONSCIOUSNESS AND WISDOM OF AN ANCIENT, VANGUARD ORGANISM

OHHH FFFUUUCCCKKKK

>> No.945514

Stoner logic. This shit makes *no* sense in the real world.

>> No.945518

>>945514
>he dares speak against the fungi

nice knowing you, bro

>> No.945561
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>> No.945585

Where does he present the evidence for this shit being sentient?

>> No.945593

RON PAUL 2008!

>> No.945603
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945603

Mycelium fungi exist underground, and resemble a neural network. We bury our dead in the ground.

>> No.945617

>>945514
Wow you're dumb. Just wow.

>> No.945647

Bamp for interesting.

>> No.945657

>>945603
You know, that would be an awesome premise for a sci-fi book. A bioengineer finds a way to merge his consciousness with an enormous interconnected mycelium growth, and does it right before he dies, becoming something close to immortal.

>> No.945666

>>945657

avatar did it already bro

>> No.945669

>>945666
Guess what did it first, Satan?
>>945561

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945670

YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.
Pic related, it's a fungi trapping and eating a nematode.

>> No.945671

>>945463
>>945476
>>945483
>>945487

did anyone else lol? i lold.

>> No.945684

Oh yeah?

Just wait until it turns out that petroleum is a product of a massive, global fungal organism feeding off of the gases and radiation in the deep earth.

And that its producing it because it needs us to go into space.

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945694

>>945684

LIVE FOR THE SWARM

>> No.945699

>>945694
I've always wondered why looking at fungus freaks the shit out of me.

ITS TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING

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>>945684

>> No.945764

>>945561
Haha, holy shit. First thing I thought of, too.

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945832

>I think this is a species we need to join with
yesss, all is as planned...

>> No.945846

by far the most revolutionary thing I have ever watched

im ordering some right now from fungi.com

>> No.945858

>>945603
mind=blown

>> No.945978
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945978

Wait, how the fuck did fungi colonize land first?
They're saphotrophic!

Yeah, there's some exceptions, but they still need other organic matter, they're not autotrophs.


There's some cool ideas in those 6 Ways, though.

>> No.945991

>>945978
You may be confusing current fungi with the type of fungi that first came onto land.