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Magic Beneath The Forests (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

and sometimes they help me speak to trees.

[–] nehal3m 53 points 3 weeks ago

LOL

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Made me laugh

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And when you eat it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

The mycelium in the forest moans

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

kind of like your genital situation

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] explodicle 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've got bad news for you about magic.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Only the edible one please.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Joel : shoot em in the head Ellie : got it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

God damn symbiotes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fantastic Fungi, great documentary!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

This sounds like someone quoting the movie Phenomenon.