I think it should be as open as possible. The last thing you want is discouraging people because they are worried about their views and how they'd be perceived. I'm reminded of that saying; there are no dumb questions, just dumb asses who don't ask them.

I remember the shroomery was the first forum I ever joined, at the time I was actually quite scared to even make a post! If I had been burnt at first I would probably have never come back, and would not be the person I am today. Mushrooms threw some fuel on my ambition, which led me down the path to my degree. Funnily enough, my 2nd post was attempted in the advanced forum. It was over 8 long years ago, I was 16, and I probably wanted to try and sound smart.

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3015 Days ago Feelers said:
I this an idea after doing a Bio project on mutations, and was thinking about how it would effect mushrooms.
I remembered the albino spores that P.F sells,  and they said it was just a random mutation,  as happens in nature every so often. So with this in mind,  i think that if someone were to take a spore print,  or a developing mushroom and expose it to large amounts of x-rays,  the next generation of spores taken from this should have a large amout of abnormalities,  depending how many x-rays it were exposed to. I have no idea how many x-rays this would take,  or how you would sneek the spores into the x-ray room,  but presumably the spores would vary wildly,  and probably need to be grown on agar,  and the resulting mushrooms would probably be infertile,  but even so,  this sounds quite similar to the P.F Albino,  and maybe would have some interesting characheristics............I cant do this myself as i dont have the ability to get into the xray room,  but i was thinking maybe others could try this out such as med students,  or ask permission from the hospital or something, or maybe some people could suggest other mutagens that might do the same job...............

What are all your thoughts..............................? 

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I cringe now (especially from all those commas!), but fortunately I was replied to in a non-elitist way and pointed in the right direction. I think if anyone joins up we should employ the Socratic method of teaching, and not the exclusionary one.


Besides it can be quite dead in here at times.

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idunno said:
People should just respect it, and not post Bs in here, Such as this thread and this response, since it has nothing to with mycology at all let alone advanced

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PrimalSoup said:
How will anybody learn?

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Exactly

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Mycelio said:
Well, sometimes there are a lot of annoying and stupid threads here, 

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That's one of the reasons why we have Moderators....to sort out all the annoying and stupid threads....like this one.

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PrimalSoup said:
How will anybody learn? 

Peace
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That was my thought.

I know it probably is a pain to keep cleaned up with many people not understanding what to post here, but it's kind of a "Hazard o' the Forum".

We throw people into stuff way over their water so they can learn to swim. Lifeguards are present. This is just like the post-grad area.

Besides, booger, you left out doctors! I gotta flop around trying to learn some of this stuff too,`as much of it as I have been cramming down people since '98

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How will anybody learn?

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