When you are touching a mushroom, you are touching the fungi penis
Magic Beneath The Forests
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
In the future scientists will have versions of doom that run on trees with mycological network multiplayer options.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
More like an ad-hoc endocrine system then any kind of speech. Honestly don’t really like how that mechanism is portrayed as speech. Certainly it helped the person who figured it out sell a lot of books, but it’s quite the misnomer.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
i wish they’d at least compare it to a computer network instead, there’s no intelligence, just information being passed along.
gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
After all, it’s only intelligence when I do it.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Plugging a book i liked…The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben.
Made me look at trees and forests a whole new way.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imagine the first time a tree gets to talk to the other trees. Like, it talks to itself for a decade or two before someone touches it and now it can hear dozens of voices.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
kind of like your genital situation
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
honestly it’s less magic and more cosmic horror, fungi are literally the source of most of the organic decay we’re used to (especially rotting trees), and the fact that they effectively are the ground in many places is not in any way magical because aaaaaaa
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’ve got bad news for you about magic.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
In any case, I’m willing to put it in my mouth.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 year ago
Only the edible one please.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No matter how many times & how much times I think of this Im in aww.
Such neat & smart package delivery system with it’s own power and agenda.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 year ago
God damn symbiotes!
friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I wonder how fungi are perceiving and responding to climate change. I bet they’re aware, maybe have been for a long time
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 year ago
Fantastic Fungi, great documentary!
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This sounds like someone quoting the movie Phenomenon.
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 1 year ago
and sometimes they help me speak to trees.
nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
LOL
You can always talk to trees though. You need the fungi to hear what the trees are saying.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Made me laugh