Isn’t there a conspiracy theories that the shrooms are a hive mind secretly guiding humanity’s evolution into godhood?
Do you mean the stoned ape theory? Never have seen it interpreted in that way, but it’s weirdly comforting and I kinda want to believe it now. Makes humanity feel less lost when there could be some fungi buddies looking after us, secretly manipulating us into becoming better beings.
Thats so badass
How do magnets work?
But we know what they are - they’re mushrooms.
Now I want him to teach me about mushrooms.
I’m also curious as to what the symbiotic relationship with the genus Mustelidae is
He just did!
Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
- mushrooms
It’s over, I have the low ground
- mushroom
The shaggy mane mushrooms like growing on a hillside in my yard and not at the bottom!
They ARE the ground.
Break mycelium in half, now is just two mycelium. Mycelium win every time.
thank you for the gold reference. completely forgot about that post
Mycelium > yourcelium
Why not ourcelium, comrade
Throw it into the sun
Then the sun develops a fungal infection, and don’t scratch that itchy rash, it’ll only make it worse.
Reminds me: In the roguelike game Cataclysm DDA, there’s fungus monsters. Basically once they’re on the map, the best strategy was to just run and keep running until they were out of the game’s “simulation bubble.”
They would spread fungal colonies uncontrollably, creating fungal towers, spawning more spores, and fungal versions of monsters, which would spread more spores…
You could hack away at them or burn them sure, but all of them? Unlikely. You could also get infected with spores! They’d rapidly take over the entire game basically lol … Dunno if that’s been nerfed now.
Spores are freaky. Really freaky…
40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.
Burning them seems to kill them. As does fungicide.
Anyone knows what that allergic reaction thing references? Sounds interesting
The part about them being too closely related to Humans sounds like BS, but there is a mushroom that is perfectly safe the first few times you eat it, and then eventually makes your immune system attack your blood cells.
There’s a Paul Stamets video where he talks about how mushrooms are so closely related to humans that we both fight off similar pathogens and that is why they are so useful to us for medicine (penicillin for example.)
In the Paul Stamets TED talk, he never says that humans specifically are genetically close to fungi. He said that between all the different kingdoms of life, animals and fungi were more biologically similar than any other two kingdoms.
That definitely explains why we can borrow useful defenses from fungi, like antibiotics, but it’s definitely not a reason to believe that our immune systems would have any difficulties differentiating between certain fungi and our own bodies, at least not for reasons related to direct genetic similarities.
Our immune systems can tell the difference between human blood types. Let alone fungus vs human.
You’re right, my word choice makes it seem like I was saying fungi and humans are genetically related. Thanks for clarifying.
There’s an enormous difference between kingdoms, so being more similar still leaves us very far apart.
Yeah the similarities make sense when you look at sponges and sea lilies and the like, but the difference between a mushroom and a mammal is incredibly vast
That’s true. To even get to the mushroom kingdom you have to jump into a lot of pipes.
TIL Stamets is named after a real mycologist.
I was thinking, “he is a real mycologist,” before I figured out to whom you were referring.
Yeah, I don’t know if @[email protected] is a mycologist but he’s certainly named after one.
Holy shit. That’s mildly terrifying…
What other great mushroom facts do you have, mystery man?
The ol’ bait and switch
most of it was bullshit. soon as you start down a taxonomy road you’re fucked with stupidity. most things in nature are on a spectrum.
Most of my friends are also on a spectrum.
are they fun guys?
probably.
Well new fear unlocked, thanks.
You don’t teach about mushrooms, you get the mushrooms to teach you.
taps head
eat psychedelic mushrooms, kids. they’re good for ya!
One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.
Ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you’re going to fall
Knee deep in the hoopla
Smoking from a hookah
But he did just teach us about mushrooms!
I love this post. Thank you.
What are birds? We just dont know! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw
He sounds like a fun guy.
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“live saving”
They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn’t that easy to understand?
They’re just very exited, give them a break.
What do you think he’s refering to?
1-up mushrooms
