So what I’m getting from your post is that everything they said is accurate
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Stamets@startrek.website 7 months agoThe mushrooms are some omnipresent thing connecting all space and time together and giving some special super powers somehow?
Complete and utter nonsense that is an outright fabrication. This isn’t a thing in Discovery.
AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 7 months ago
Stamets@startrek.website 7 months ago
That’s a you problem, not a reality problem.
AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 7 months ago
Seems more like a you problem tbh
Stamets@startrek.website 7 months ago
Yawn. Low effort troll is low effort.
Blocked. Got better things to do than acknowledge your existence.
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I’m confused how something could connect all of time and space together without being omnipresent. It seems to me that the network is omnipresent by definition, because it exists everywhere.
Stamets@startrek.website 7 months ago
I misread it as omniscient. My bad there.
The root system isn’t omnipresent though. It only exists where life exists. The root system doesn’t permeate in regions of dead space or intergalactic space. If there’s nothing for life to grow on then the network doesn’t exist there.
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
That’s true, it spans the entire multiverse but only within one galaxy. It’s odd, but it’s cool that the network is so deeply tied to the Milky Way, just in every reality.
It makes me wonder what the network is actually feeding off of. Life? Some sort of nebulous “energy”?
Not something that they need to answer, but it’s just so cool to think about the mystery of it. I love fungi, and I love the mycelial network as this truly cosmic-scale organism living in subspace, holding the multiverse together. It’s beautiful.
Stamets@startrek.website 7 months ago
The network doesn’t seem to feed off of anything but is instead symbiotic in a way, the way that mushrooms are on earth. They’re just a part of the life/death/rebirth cycle.
They’ve never conclusively stated that the network only works in milky way though. Intergalactic space was a no go but they’ve never tried jumping to another galaxy yet. Be crazy if they did in season 5…
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Like I tell my kid who is constantly asking “how” whenever we watch Star Trek^1, it’s best not to think too hard about all that lol. I mean, I don’t love the Tuvix episode for the science…
1 Somehow this never happens when watching anime 🤔
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now he has the ability to see time a little differently due to that DNA
Which is kind of weird given that DNA is carbon, hydrogen, moving and forming bonds based on physics. It’s why folding at home can simulate proteins.
Do anything DNA does can be simulated on a computer.
Stamets@startrek.website 7 months ago
But it couldn’t. The network requires a living link. Computers were used for the first couple episodes and they were beyong unreliable.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Living” is a chemical process. Since Stamets was able to transfer the DNA into himself, he had identified the segments that coded the particular proteins.
Stamets@startrek.website 7 months ago
Proteins that could not be adequately replicated by a computer while also being accepted by the network. Again. This was literally in the show.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I’m sorry my guy but Stamets literally has a throwaway line in S1 saying that if the mycelial network is destroyed it will “kill all life in the multiverse”
It doesn’t just connect space and time it connects different universes. Why do you think Lorca was so interested in Discovery, it was the tech that was able to get him back to his original universe.
Stamets@startrek.website 7 months ago
There’s nothing to be sorry for as the only thing of mine that you’re negating is the ‘omnipresent’ thing and that’s only because I misread it as omniscient.
Everything else stands.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Love ya Stamets, you big shroomhead
Stamets@startrek.website 7 months ago
Mushrooms are cool. They defy reality here on earth. Makes sense they’d do it in space.