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
Magic Beneath The Forests
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’ve got bad news for you about magic.
friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I wonder how fungi are perceiving and responding to climate change. I bet they’re aware, maybe have been for a long time
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
God damn symbiotes!
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 weeks 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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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.
toynbee@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This sounds like someone quoting the movie Phenomenon.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
When you are touching a mushroom, you are touching the fungi penis
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
In any case, I’m willing to put it in my mouth.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 weeks ago
Only the edible one please.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
After all, it’s only intelligence when I do it.
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
and sometimes they help me speak to trees.
nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
LOL
You can always talk to trees though. You need the fungi to hear what the trees are saying.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Made me laugh
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
kind of like your genital situation
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
In the future scientists will have versions of doom that run on trees with mycological network multiplayer options.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Fantastic Fungi, great documentary!