
It's an information superhighway that speeds up interactions between a large, diverse population of individuals. It allows individuals who may be widely separated to communicate and help each other out. But it also allows them to commit new forms of crime.
No, we're not talking about the internet, we're talking about fungi. While mushrooms might be the most familiar part of a fungus, most of their bodies are made up of a mass of thin threads, known as a mycelium. We now know that these threads act as a kind of underground internet, linking the roots of different plants. That tree in your garden is probably hooked up to a bush several metres away, thanks to mycelia.
The more we learn about these underground networks, the more our ideas about plants have to change. They aren't just sitting there quietly growing. By linking to the fungal network they can help out their neighbours by sharing nutrients and information – or sabotage unwelcome plants by spreading toxic chemicals through the network. This "wood wide web", it turns out, even has its own version of cybercrime.
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But that's not all. We now know that mycorrhizae also connect plants that may be widely separated. Fungus expert Paul Stamets called them "Earth's natural internet" in a 2008 TED talk. He first had the idea in the 1970s when he was studying fungi using an electron microscope. Stamets noticed similarities between mycelia and ARPANET, the US Department of Defense's early version of the internet.
maj wrote:Me, dressed in stylish jb1-S looking smug and utilising the famous acronym escape zip system in which I tug my zip upwards to undo my jacket: cool isn't it? (Raises eyebrows)
Mum, dressed in next and wondering what the fuck she gave birth tooo : is your zip broke?
Me sweating and wanting to be swallowed by the earth : bb..b ...I...b...I...but....
Bonobonobo wrote:Also the Escape Zip's implication that you're going to abandon your ACR jacket to get away from some life-threatening peril is laughable at best.
CheerUpBrokeBoy wrote:on another note, they just dropped another promo video and a full minute and a half is erlsn's girlfriend dancing xD must be nice
CheerUpBrokeBoy wrote:really really like those big-ass sarouel pants that Helly Hansen put out this season, if only because they're a lot more aesthetically inaccessible than any of Helly Hansen's other offerings and they feel to me to be a reaction against all the milspec-fetishist Helly Hansen nerds that just want to wear basic streetwear with a bunch of techsys and cobra buckles slapped on it. it's probably inevitable that errolson eventually gets charming of making easy shit like that and will make more daring stuff. hopefully.
on another note, they just dropped another promo video and a full minute and a half is erlsn's girlfriend dancing xD must be nice
This is a response that's everywhere as more and more people who once paid lip service to the value of opinions are overwhelmed by the number of opinions available in the information age.
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