Comment on indoor mushroom farming
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I still don’t exactly understand what the fuck mushrooms are.
Understandable, they’re neither animals nor plants, and at least to me, that’s really weird. Pretty much everything large enough to see fits into those categories, and it just feels like fungi should be plants as well.
I just googled a bit about this topic and learned algae is also not a plant. But it’s green! thurston
You should check out kelp next. It’s not a plant either.
Isn’t that a type of algae?
I guess you also count minerals as plants?
I was just considering living things here, but fair point
mushrooms are just eucaryotic species that never bothered to develop legs or brains. if they want to go somewhere, they either grow a thin wire to get there or throw a million spores into the air and hope that one lands where it should be going to.
Fun fact, it’s very likely that without mushrooms land animals wouldn’t exist. More controversially it’s possible that without mushrooms no creatures with higher order thinking like human variants could exist.
stoned ape theory mentioned
(citation needed)
Sure thing, my undereducated comrade.
Fungi (or protofungi) were likely the first large multi-cellular life on land, predating plants by at least a half billion years and creating the soil conditions necessary for plants to make the jump from the ocean. In fact plant life without fungal symbiosis on land likely would have been impossible.
As to the second part, while it’s controversial in some circles that lean heavily toward divine creation or intervention, the Stoned Ape Theory is nonetheless pretty well supported. As for my exact wording; I’m also including dolphins, which do recreational drugs anyway, and suggesting outside popular theories there’s a sea fungus they’ve keyed in on in the past, as well as octopi who like to get high, even crows like a little chemical help now and again. While we don’t have direct evidence of non-ape species being particularly into eating fungus for its mind altering effects, the fact that pretty much every ‘intelligent’ species seems to enjoy recreational mind-altering drugs does point to a common origin for intelligence itself.
That just makes you wanna give shrooms to animals to see if any develop higher intelligence
xD but for the fungus to activate these parts of the brain that form language etc, these parts would have to be there in the first place. it doesn’t make much sense to develop a brain and then depend on external substances to activate them. also it would be a huge disadvantage to not just always enable them, which nature surely could have done, and probably did.
Why?
The first step before we get 40k orks
Does anyone?
sundray@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Relevant XKCD:
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