Paul Stamets thinks mushrooms can save our world. I wasn’t aware our world needed saving, but regardless, here is 6 ways mushrooms can save our world:
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Bio-remediation and similar creative uses of organisms to our advantage continuously amaze me.
There was one TED talk I saw where some guy was talking about a breed of flower he had created that could detect minute traces of gunpowder. Normally, the flowers would grow to be one color, but in the presence of landmines, they would be red.
People living in areas with landmines could scatter the seeds of these flowers, and could tell in short order where they should avoid stepping. Amazing.
Yeah, but then we try to breed a special orchid to produce fuel oil and we wind up with triffids.
That man doesn’t like mushrooms, he LOVES them.
I dun know. Mushrooms with neural nets that can survive asteroid impacts and control the ecosystem. I’m damn terrified of the things now. How long before we have a mushroom uprising? How long before they develop their own spacefaring technology. Put mushrooms around uranium deposits, and could they be smart enough to build nuclear weapons?
I don’t think this is a war we can win. If we think we have problems with yeast infections now, wait until they REALLY take control.
I’m going to buy the biggest mushroom I can from the store and set up a shrine for it. Worship mushrooms now, while we still have a chance.
McBlog’s avatar looks like a potent antidote to a mushroom menace if you ask me :)
He seems to have got caught up in his own rhetoric and spouts some blithering statements as a result.
It’s a shame because I admire his enthusiasm and motivation and for all I know he’s right about the role of fungi in saving the earth.
Or they can just see where the guy who scatters the seeds gets blown up, and avoid that area.
All snark aside, it sounds like a good idea, so I bet the land-mine-making companies are hard at work trying to circumvent this type of detection.
Gah, the reply thing on this blog seems to behave oddly. I never meant the above to be a reply to Elliott, but it turned up there anyway. Probably my mistake.
If you worship the mushroom and it turns out not to be a threat, you’ve lost nothing.
If you don’t worship the mushroom, and you’re wrong, you get an eternity of fungal growths.
Why take the chance?
I, for one, welcome our new mushroom overlords.
Chances are, in the event of a Mushroom Kingdom, we’d have to send Joe the Plumber to save the Princess.
May I recommend Sylvia Plath’s poem, Mushrooms, written from the pov of the mushrooms?
…We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot’s in the door.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mushrooms/
I think that may in fact be the first time EVAR that someone has beat me to the Simpsons/Futurama reference.
Well played, sir.
Mushrooms. Mushroom clouds. Coincidence? I think not!
What if mushrooms are not jealous warlords / gods and don’t demand worship. What if they think that we are idiots for offering it up? What if the damned things think we are pathetically stupid for all this God worship, and just role their mighty fungal eyes at us and be rid of us for our grotesque foolishness!?!
We are doomed! DOOMED!!!!
:(((
Wait … but if they take over and become great fungal overloards, will the EATING of mushrooms be verboten? I for one would be highly disappointed if that were the case. I am suddenly wondering if I am going to regret my lunch of pasta with oyster and cremini mushroom and leeks.
Fungal’s Wager
You don’t know the true nature of mushrooms. They’re not merely fungi. There is more. There is a ‘shroom. Shrooms in you, the mystery of the ages!
Awesome.
I am totally using that as my argument the next time someone throws dusty old Pascal at me.
Fungal’s wager!
Joe the Plumber would just complain.
He’d say that if we unequitably assign princess-saving duty to the rich and successful among us, there will no longer be any incentive to work hard.
*in
Well, it seems some countries have asked the UN to make it a criminal offence to eat or ‘defame’ mushrooms.
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, you know…
A ‘shroom with a view…