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Psychedelic mushroom spores traveling through space for trance
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Aluxe
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Posted : Oct 6, 2006 21:44
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Since mushrooms are such a big psy symbol, I decided to post these facts which I found amazing, sorry if its off topic:
1) While humans and most species are divided into only two sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes, one particular fungi (Schizophyllum commune) is known to have more than 28,000 distinct sexes.
2) For those that didn't know the mushrooms you see on the grass are only the fruiting part of the fungy which can be much larger under the ground. Well the largest living organism on earth has been discovered to be a fungy in Oregon (USA)living three feet underground with an estimated sizez of 2,200 acres. After testing samples from various locations, scientists say IT IS ALL ONE ORGANISM. Officially known as Armillaria ostoyae, or the honey mushroom, the fungus is 3.5 miles across and takes up 1,665 football fields. The small mushrooms visible above ground are only the tip of the iceberg. Experts estimate that the giant mushroom is at least 2,400 years old, but could be 7,200 years old.
3) Some of the oldest living mushroom colonies are fairy rings growing around the famous Stonehenge ruins in England. The rings are so large that they can best be seen from airplanes or satellites.
4) Mushrooms could prove to be important genetic cousins to humans. Our human DNA, in fact, is more closely related to fungi than to plants. Plant pathogens do not attack animals, and animal pathogens do not attack plants. But fungi and humans ARE attacked by the same pathogens.
5) The spores of mushrooms are made of chitin, the hardest naturally-made substance on Earth. Some scientists suspect that mushroom spores are capable of space travel; a few even believe that some fungi found on Earth originally came from outer space!
on a slightly different note, on October 2000, a team of biologists and a geologist announced the revival of bacteria that are 250 million years old, strengthening that case that bacterial spores can be immortal.
6) just for fun, check out these bioluminescent shrooms that glow in the dark like fireflies:
http://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/images-small/0002.jpg
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Freeflow
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Posted : Oct 6, 2006 21:50
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This is so fucking awsome!!  haha
i knew there were something special with the mushrooms!
nice info Aluxe
this is mindbending...
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Nobita
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Posted : Oct 6, 2006 22:09
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Keeping McKenna's flame alive I see 
 Row row row your boats gently down the stream; merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream. |
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Kane
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Posted : Oct 8, 2006 18:42
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Cool..lol |
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Posted : Oct 13, 2006 01:53
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Woooohooooo!
Mushrooms are god.... or, perhaps, as my friend described them: the Devil's tools |
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Psycosmo
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Posted : Oct 13, 2006 04:00
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Aluxe
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Posted : Oct 19, 2006 02:16
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Psycosmo, I just found exactly what I wrote somewhere in the net. I made a little search and it seems that the rings at Stonehenge are about 300 years old, which seems nothing compared to the possible 7000 years old fungi in Oregon. But still quite impressive, and the rings are huge (100 meters wide). However the oldest known fairy ring is a kilometre wide and ± 700 years old.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/abiemans/e_mycelium.html
You know on the subject of old organisms check this out:
http://www.extremescience.com/OldestLivingThing.htm
"In October, 1999; 250-million-year-old bacteria were found in ancient sea salt beneath Carlsbad, New Mexico. The microscopic organisms were revived in a laboratory after being in 'suspended animation', encased in a hard-shelled spore, for an estimated 250 million years. The species has not been identified, but is referred to as strain 2-9-3, or B. permians."
Talk about rising from the dead!!
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Aluxe
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Posted : Oct 19, 2006 02:16
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Psycosmo, I just found exactly what I wrote somewhere in the net. I made a little search and it seems that the rings at Stonehenge are about 300 years old, which seems nothing compared to the possible 7000 years old fungi in Oregon. But still quite impressive, and the rings are huge (100 meters wide). However the oldest known fairy ring is a kilometre wide and ± 700 years old.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/abiemans/e_mycelium.html
You know on the subject of old organisms check this out:
http://www.extremescience.com/OldestLivingThing.htm
"In October, 1999; 250-million-year-old bacteria were found in ancient sea salt beneath Carlsbad, New Mexico. The microscopic organisms were revived in a laboratory after being in 'suspended animation', encased in a hard-shelled spore, for an estimated 250 million years. The species has not been identified, but is referred to as strain 2-9-3, or B. permians."
Talk about rising from the dead!!
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Aluxe
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Posted : Oct 19, 2006 02:17
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Psycosmo, I just found exactly what I wrote somewhere in the net. I made a little search and it seems that the rings at Stonehenge are about 300 years old, which seems nothing compared to the possible 7000 years old fungi in Oregon. But still quite impressive, and the rings are huge (100 meters wide). However the oldest known fairy ring is a kilometre wide and ± 700 years old.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/abiemans/e_mycelium.html
You know on the subject of old organisms check this out:
http://www.extremescience.com/OldestLivingThing.htm
"In October, 1999; 250-million-year-old bacteria were found in ancient sea salt beneath Carlsbad, New Mexico. The microscopic organisms were revived in a laboratory after being in 'suspended animation', encased in a hard-shelled spore, for an estimated 250 million years. The species has not been identified, but is referred to as strain 2-9-3, or B. permians."
Talk about rising from the dead!!
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Aluxe
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Posted : Oct 20, 2006 02:02
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^^I clicked on the submit button several times, mods please delete the last 2 messages and this one.. if you care
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