At least he didn't fall out of a 10th floor window at the mushroom picking place, or accidentally cut off his head with pruning shears.
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Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
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Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
#72Top 2 comments from people who live in the region.
This is extremely unlikely
This is not really suspisvious
Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
#73I hope he wasn't eating gyromitra esculenta, the false morel. It contains a volatile toxic substance that metabolizes into monomethylhydrazine, a rocket propellent.
Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
#74Top 2 comments from people who live in the region. This is extremely unlikely This is not really suspisvious
We need an independent fact checker
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#75This is not really suspicious. I regularly went foraging for shrooms in Ukraine with my gram gram, but I was not allowed to pick anything, of course. It requires expertise. In that part of the world, this is very common, and so are the cases of people poisoning themselves because they think they are good at it. If you can't relate - think of all the "gun people" who think they are experts on gun safety and then they…
In Finland it’s pretty common to go mushroom hunting. Between 1969-2006 eight people died because of mushroom poisoning. Three of them died 20-30 years after the initial poisoning due to kidney transplant issues. So at least here it’s not very common to get killed by mushrooms even though many people enjoy foraging.
Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
#76This is not really suspicious. I regularly went foraging for shrooms in Ukraine with my gram gram, but I was not allowed to pick anything, of course. It requires expertise. In that part of the world, this is very common, and so are the cases of people poisoning themselves because they think they are good at it. If you can't relate - think of all the "gun people" who think they are experts on gun safety and then they…
Sounds like your gram gram was overly careful.
Foraging for mushrooms does not require huge amounts expertise. It requires a little bit of common sense.
If you regularly went foraging, it would have been possible for you to learn a few easily identifiable and unmistakable mushrooms. At least in the Nordics (and I assume it would be the same near by), it is quite easy to teach another person a few mushrooms to forage for when you can show the mushrooms growing in the wild and explain the few identifying traits.
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#77People legit do die from mushrooms though. We had an incident locally a few months ago involving a restaurant that served a kind of mushroom that needs to be cooked, but didn't cook them (allegedly).
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Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
#78All mushroom are edible.
Some, only once.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are reading too much in what I said. Of course weird things are happening in an unstable dictatorship like Russia and this guy might have been assassinated for one reason or another. That does not mean it is not nice to give people context about the culture in that end of the world though.
I think you make it sound more exotic than it is. People pick mushrooms around the world. Slightly more common in SE-Europe, a bit less so than a few decades ago. People tend to stick to the 1-2 species they know best, poisonings are extremely rare.
Fair point, but I am surprised to hear that. My US friends (New England) have been extremely surprised when they hear that foraging for mushrooms is common where I come from (on the rare occasions when this comes up).
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#80Definitely could be foul play, but I’ve also known a few older Russians who were very proud of their mushroom foraging skills.
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