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Now I want him to teach me about mushrooms.
I'm also curious as to what the symbiotic relationship with the genus Mustelidae is
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
Break mycelium in half, now is just two mycelium. Mycelium win every time.
Mycelium > yourcelium
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.
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.
Most of my friends are also on a spectrum.
are they fun guys?
One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.
Ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
There is mushroom for research
You don’t teach about mushrooms, you get the mushrooms to teach you.
taps head
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?
Isn't there a conspiracy theories that the shrooms are a hive mind secretly guiding humanity's evolution into godhood?
Ever since watching the latest season of Clarkson’s Farm, I can’t help but hear him say ‘space penises’ any time I read the word mishrooms..
Hah yes what a wacky role model that man is. What a lovely avuncular figure in all of our lives. What a boon to mankind.
Are we really calling that racist homophobe who rails against road safety and assaults people a "role model" of any sort?
Oh sorry I thought the sarcasm was obvious. He is a wretched man and I hope he dies soon in tremendous pain
The fun part is the sort of people who do like him will upvote my comment because they are stupid.
What's an immortal mushroom look like? And how does it, like... Work?
A web of mycelium that permeates the ground and constantly regenerates itself, occasionally producing visible fruiting bodies.
It's "immortal" only in the sense that an organism with distinct genetics doesn't die of old age, but fungi aren't really individual organisms like we are.
They're more like the Zerg than the Terran, or Protoss, that's for sure.

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