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#19189028 - 11/25/13 08:54 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Funny thing is, when they say magic mushrooms, those gyms in the picture probably are.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10473002/Mushrooms-can-change-the-weather-scientists-reveal.html
Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal The fungi can whip up winds that blow away their spores and help them disperse.
Magic Mushrooms? According to scientists, mushrooms can alter the moisture of the air around them, whipping up winds that blow away their spores and help them disperse.
Mushrooms have an extraordinary ability to control the weather, scientists have learned. By altering the moisture of the air around them, they whip up winds that blow away their spores and help them disperse.
Plants use a variety of methods to spread seeds, including gravity, forceful ejection, wind, water and animals. Mushrooms have long been thought of as passive seed spreaders, releasing their spores and then relying on air currents to carry them.
But new research has shown that mushrooms are able to disperse their spores over a wide area even when there is not a breath of wind - by creating their own weather.
Scientists in the US used high-speed filming techniques and mathematical modelling to show how oyster and Shiitake mushrooms release water vapor that cools the air around them, creating convection currents. This in turn generates miniature winds that lift their spores into the air.
image http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02745/MUSHROOMS_2745267b.jpg
The findings, presented at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics in Pittsburgh, suggest that mushrooms are far more than mechanical spore manufacturers.
''Our research shows that these 'machines' are much more complex than that: they control their local environments, and create winds where there were none in nature,'' said lead scientist Professor Emilie Dressaire, from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. ''That's pretty amazing, but fungi are ingenious engineers.''
The scientists believe the same process may be used by all mushroom fungi, including those that cause diseases in plants, animals and humans.
A mushroom - or toadstool - is technically the fleshy, spore-bearing, fruiting body of a fungus. Millions of spores, microscopic single-celled ''seeds'', may be produced by a single mushroom, at least a few of which are likely to land somewhere suitable for fungal growth.
More than 80 different types of wild edible mushroom grow in the UK, as well as many poisonous species. One of the world's deadliest mushrooms, the death cap, is a common sight in British woodland. Although pleasant tasting, just one ounce of the fungus is enough to kill.
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: Forager]
#19189139 - 11/25/13 09:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Copy and paste the entire article.
The article itself is pretty amazing. It is funny those do look like gyms.
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: K1ngSp4de]
#19189226 - 11/25/13 09:44 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quite a powerful fungus
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: Forager]
#19190105 - 11/26/13 01:18 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Remember John M Allegro who was the first to claim that Jesus was a mushroom? And that story from the bible were Jesus changed the weather? (probably best known as when Jesus calmed the storm).
just thought it was kind of ironic
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: gulper2323]
#19190155 - 11/26/13 01:36 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Since the original posting person won't do it, i'll take care of it best i can. 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10473002/Mushrooms-can-change-the-weather-scientists-reveal.html
Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal The fungi can whip up winds that blow away their spores and help them disperse.
Magic Mushrooms? According to scientists, mushrooms can alter the moisture of the air around them, whipping up winds that blow away their spores and help them disperse.
Mushrooms have an extraordinary ability to control the weather, scientists have learned. By altering the moisture of the air around them, they whip up winds that blow away their spores and help them disperse.
Plants use a variety of methods to spread seeds, including gravity, forceful ejection, wind, water and animals. Mushrooms have long been thought of as passive seed spreaders, releasing their spores and then relying on air currents to carry them.
But new research has shown that mushrooms are able to disperse their spores over a wide area even when there is not a breath of wind - by creating their own weather.
Scientists in the US used high-speed filming techniques and mathematical modelling to show how oyster and Shiitake mushrooms release water vapor that cools the air around them, creating convection currents. This in turn generates miniature winds that lift their spores into the air.
image http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02745/MUSHROOMS_2745267b.jpg
The findings, presented at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics in Pittsburgh, suggest that mushrooms are far more than mechanical spore manufacturers.
''Our research shows that these 'machines' are much more complex than that: they control their local environments, and create winds where there were none in nature,'' said lead scientist Professor Emilie Dressaire, from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. ''That's pretty amazing, but fungi are ingenious engineers.''
The scientists believe the same process may be used by all mushroom fungi, including those that cause diseases in plants, animals and humans.
A mushroom - or toadstool - is technically the fleshy, spore-bearing, fruiting body of a fungus. Millions of spores, microscopic single-celled ''seeds'', may be produced by a single mushroom, at least a few of which are likely to land somewhere suitable for fungal growth.
More than 80 different types of wild edible mushroom grow in the UK, as well as many poisonous species. One of the world's deadliest mushrooms, the death cap, is a common sight in British woodland. Although pleasant tasting, just one ounce of the fungus is enough to kill.
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: guest1]
#19190169 - 11/26/13 01:41 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wow
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: K1ngSp4de]
#19190950 - 11/26/13 09:07 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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K1ngSp4de said:
Copy and paste the entire article.
The article itself is pretty amazing. It is funny those do look like gyms.
I apologize guys I have not posted in the news thread before. Looks like someone beat me to it- appreciate it guest1
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: Forager]
#19192191 - 11/26/13 01:55 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Makes me wonder if other plants do the same, how much of the wind on this planet is generated by plants? Bizarre
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: Repertoire89]
#19192624 - 11/26/13 03:27 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Repertoire89 said: Makes me wonder if other plants do the same, how much of the wind on this planet is generated by plants? Bizarre
If there were no plants would a wind blow?
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: gulper2323]
#19193144 - 11/26/13 05:21 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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If I remember correctly wind is caused by the effect of temperature, pressure changes, stuff I haven't studied in a long time.
It would be really cool to think that plants created hurricanes with their breathing though.
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: Repertoire89]
#19194102 - 11/26/13 08:38 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quite an interesting article! Thanks for posting.
Does this explain why, in monotubs, even the tallest of the fruits have spores on top of their caps?
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Re: Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal [Re: ElVatoFirme]
#19206542 - 11/29/13 09:25 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yup, I've seen the same in the wild, I always wondered why it happened.
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