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Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length

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Re: Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length

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Post by NDlurker »

kakacik wrote: post #12
waterTanuki wrote: post #6

The 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.

Well South Sudan as highlighted has 8, and thats basically a desert. Tibetan plateau is high altitude frozen desert with permafrost in many parts, and its 11.4. Maybe there is more complexity than meets the first glance.

South Sudan isn't a desert. Tibet isn't all permafrost and glaciers.

Re: Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length

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Post by mc32 »

mkl wrote: post #3

100×10^12 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.

I wonder if these measurements were done in similar fashion to how they measured kudzu coverage in the US. For the longest time it was assumed that one of the initial projections was correct; however, under closer examination that estimate was off by a factor of 30. Kudzu wasn’t enveloping the South. It did like the byways though.

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Post by metalman »

there was other work done on nemetodes, that are all over the planet, in glaciers, deap ocean, in rock far underground, etc, where someone did a representation of the earth, but with everything but the nemetodes removed, my speculation is that a large part of nemetode and mycylium networks, overlap.

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Post by reverius42 »

waterTanuki wrote: post #6

The 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.

Fungi survive in deserts: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22062025/sonoran-desert-s...

Re: Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length

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Post by Schlagbohrer »

waterTanuki wrote: post #6

The 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.

The underground in desert regions can be much more humid and hospitable than the surface.

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Post by agos »

uberex wrote: post #20
mkl wrote: post #3

100×10^12 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.

How many light years is the English coastline?

at least 3
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