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Magic Beneath The Forests

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • MunkyNutts@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and sometimes they help me speak to trees.

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    • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      LOL

      You can always talk to trees though. You need the fungi to hear what the trees are saying.

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Made me laugh

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When you are touching a mushroom, you are touching the fungi penis

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    • bamfic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And then when you pick it you are cutting off the fungi penis

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      • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And when you eat it

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  • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the future scientists will have versions of doom that run on trees with mycological network multiplayer options.

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWbY7kWesI

      Have fun

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i wish they’d at least compare it to a computer network instead, there’s no intelligence, just information being passed along.

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      • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        After all, it’s only intelligence when I do it.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      kind of like your genital situation

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve got bad news for you about magic.

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In any case, I’m willing to put it in my mouth.

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    • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only the edible one please.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    God damn symbiotes!

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  • friendly_ghost@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder how fungi are perceiving and responding to climate change. I bet they’re aware, maybe have been for a long time

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  • Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fantastic Fungi, great documentary!

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This sounds like someone quoting the movie Phenomenon.

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