TankovayaDiviziya, The biggest organism in the world is a fungus which goes miles long. scientificamerican.com/…/strange-but-true-largest…
MacNCheezus, Some of them will also make you high, but some will kill you.
lseif, and some will taste great on pizza!
MacNCheezus, The American mind cannot comprehend that.
Transporter_Room_3, Some will make you high, then kill you.
Faydaikin, (edited ) Some taste great on pizza, gets you high and then kills you as a bonus.
Cosmos7349, So basically… I just ate a bag of fungi dicks?
JasonDJ, P. cubensis kinda looks like little circumcised penises anyway. At least before they open up.
Hugh_Jeggs, Have they got little foreskins in normal countries?
shneancy, yea
Gunrigger, Were you hoping for fun guy dicks?
onlinepersona, That is what people sound like that have taken too many shrooms. Comes a bit too close to newage bullshit. “Life is the universe evolving to experience itself through you” and bullshit like that.
grrgyle, But it’s cool.
Just don’t go thinking it means anything other than nature is awesome.
onlinepersona, I just think there are better ways to say nature is awesome without adding mystics, new age stuff, or fantastical expressions to it. Then it starts turning into non-science.
grrgyle, I like those better ways too, but I’m me and you’re you. I think the vulgarisation like in the op are good and useful as well. We’re not talking about Deepak Chopra here, just a little mycological poetry.
I would use the word “special” rather than mystical, but the awesomeness of reality can often feel mystical. I think it’s ok to play with that as long as you aren’t making any serious claims, like we should order our social structure around fungi deity or something
cheesymoonshadow, I feel exactly the same way as how you described it. I think the quote from OP about the universe experiencing itself actually originated from Carl Sagan, who is as scientific and atheistic as you could ask for. It’s just a play on words.
And then you have the likes of Deepak Chopra, who is the most disingenuous woowoo-talking charlatan in existence. If he said something like that, he would mean it literally.
Retrograde, I believe you haven’t taken enough shrooms
onlinepersona, Probably 😅
danielbln, You sound like a sour lemon. I’d rather hang out with a hippie that thinks the universe is conscious than someone who slaps a paper tiger license to their low originality threshold posts. Just sayin.
onlinepersona, Sour lemons are tasty, dunno what your problem is 🤷 I wouldn’t want to hang out with some rando called “balloon” from the internet either. Just sayin.
Retrograde, You have to be a troll, right?..right?
onlinepersona, If someone insulted you, what kind of response would you give (if any)?
Retrograde, Well, I’d ask their rationale, of course. I don’t see your point though
pufferfisherpowder, Are you giving out a license for all your posts? Are you following up on the usage or is it more of a symbolic act?
TheOakTree, Seems like the actions of a person who took too much acid and warped their own reality.
onlinepersona, I’ll probably determine if it’s symbolic when it turns up in some commercial AI.
EmperorHenry, That guy probably knows a lot about mushrooms, talking like that.
AscendantSquid, So mushrooms are Vegan Cthulhu’s boners?
SSJ2Marx, This reminds me that I’m writing a story about a witch and one of the first things that happens is that she pisses off the mushrooms and they tell the trees not to talk to her. I should get back to that.
biologyboy, I’m taking a myco class rn and it’s amazing. Candida aurus is scary tho
wombat, in the air, too; we live in an ocean of spores.
mihor, Ok, that’s sweet, but don’t google ‘zombie funghi’. Really, just don’t. Like, ever.
grrgyle, Thanks. Don’t do that thing. Easy peasy.
SirDankbud, Look up cordyceps instead!
mihor, The nasty shrooms. 💀
K0W4LSK1, People should look up Paul Stamets. Dude is doing amazing things in the field of mycology and showing the power of mushrooms!
Malgas, TIL the Star Trek Discovery character has a real life namesake.
bufalo1973, Someone should help him with the page. At least to do a proper one (I’ve just looked the code).
nerfherder, Thought this was a Star Trek Discovery joke
cheesymoonshadow, Thanks to this, I just went down a rabbit hole learning about the real Paul Stamets and the fictional but fascinating S-drive.
princessnorah, No, this guy’s who they named the character in Discovery after. Legit.
K0W4LSK1, Oh my gosh I’m so dumb I never even put that together. That’s so cool. He does have interesting theories but he’s also saving old growth forests well trying and he’s doing breakthrough research in the medical attributes of mushrooms.
Grass, The way so many of them look like genitals makes this so much better
LibertyLizard, They don’t just look like genitals, they are genitals.
Grass, No I mean they aren’t just genitals, but look like them too!
UnearthedUnusual, (edited ) Nature is full of genital-looking things.
Dulusa, But nature is also full of genitals that don’t look like the genitals your thinking of
grrgyle, It’s not even 07h here, and I think this is going to me my favourite fedi interaction of the day
Swedneck, if your penis looks like a morel, seek help immediately
Zehzin,
m12421k, Puts the pan on stove. Ignites the flame and adds some olive oil. Everything is in order to sear the heretics.
Kolanaki, Mushrooms are near impossible to burn. All you’re doing is giving them a flavorful sauna.
BluesF, (edited ) Mm, crispy mushrooms. Unburnt by flame, unseared by iron, but consumed and burned for energy in the acd pits of me… Who’s the eldritch horror now, huh? I will eat any lesser organism.
anonymouse, Is this the outline for Charlie Kaufman’s next film?
Shyfer, (edited ) Fungi confuse me. I can’t figure out what they are. I think the fact that I thought they were plants my whole life and then it turns out they aren’t just broke me lol.
exocrinous, Coral also isn’t plants
pufferfisherpowder, My Biology teacher put it pretty neatly: “Fungi are Fungi.”
Swedneck, afaik a decent summary is that they’re sorta like animal cells that specced into a plant lifestyle, but since animals are good at digesting stuff and can’t photosynthesize, they went for eating dead things that no one else eats.
Zorque, Yeah, I saw that X-files episode too.
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