I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing to listen. These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays: taken together, the neural net connectivity must be staggering. Can a planet be said to have achieved sentience? - Lady Deirdre Skye, Planet Dreams, Alpha Centauri
Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length
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#12The map looks off. No way the American Southwest has 3 meters per cm cubed of fungal density in such an arid region. Plenty of desert.
Maybe there is more complexity than meets the first glance.
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#14Interesting how deeply east coast Australia is colored. I live in Sydney, a city of 5.6 million humans, and yet my yard apparently has at least the following fungi I can identify to species level: Aseroe rubra (alien thing with tendrils), Astraeus hygrometricus , Cladia aggregata , Coprinellus disseminatus , Coprinellus micaceus , Cruentomycena viscidocruenta , Flavoparmelia caperata , Heterodea muelleri , Hypholoma…
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#16100×10^12 km is about 10.6 light years. There are about 16 other stars closer to the sun than that. It's a bit like a human body containing blood vessels with total length greater than twice the Earth's circumference.
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#17If you have a number that is 1000^90000000 that number is larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
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#18100×10^12 km is about 10.6 light years. There are about 16 other stars closer to the sun than that. It's a bit like a human body containing blood vessels with total length greater than twice the Earth's circumference.
100×10^15 km
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#19Interesting how deeply east coast Australia is colored. I live in Sydney, a city of 5.6 million humans, and yet my yard apparently has at least the following fungi I can identify to species level: Aseroe rubra (alien thing with tendrils), Astraeus hygrometricus , Cladia aggregata , Coprinellus disseminatus , Coprinellus micaceus , Cruentomycena viscidocruenta , Flavoparmelia caperata , Heterodea muelleri , Hypholoma…
I live on the Gold Coast and I have seen in my yard Aseroe rubra, glow in the dark mushrooms (not for a while now) and many others. Just this weekend I found one that looks a bit like a king oyster. Where did you get your list? I was looking for a visual guide to local fungi
Re: Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length
#20100×10^12 km is about 10.6 light years. There are about 16 other stars closer to the sun than that. It's a bit like a human body containing blood vessels with total length greater than twice the Earth's circumference.