GenesisCorrupted said:

Yeah, that's the usual suspect.

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I see, well, haven't encountered it yet, but I'm sure we'll cross paths one day

Kloakk said:

GenesisCorrupted said:

You're growing a rare variety. I always grow that kind of orange tan earwax colored one.

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Like this?

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fucking horror movie!

Kloakk said:

nektar61 said:

Careful, that stuff is smarter than a 3 year old, can solve mazes, and possibly open locked doors.

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Really?

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I was kidding about locked doors, but it would not shock me.

From Wikipedia (click through the stunning photos on that Wikipedia Slime Mold entry)

"Slime molds, particularly the species Physarum polycephalum, can solve mazes by exploring all possible paths and identifying the shortest route to food. They do this by retracting branches that do not lead to food, leaving behind a slime trail that helps them remember the best paths for future foraging"....

"The slime mold algorithm is a meta-heuristic algorithm, based on the behavior of aggregated slime molds as they stream in search of food. It is described as a simple, efficient, and flexible way of solving optimization problems, such as finding the shortest path between nodes in a network....

"Toshiyuki Nakagaki and colleagues studied slime molds and their abilities to solve mazes by placing nodes at two points separated by a maze of plastic film. The mold explored all possible paths and solved it for the shortest path."...

..."Atsushi Tero and colleagues grew Physarum in a flat wet dish, placing the mold in a central position representing Tokyo, and oat flakes surrounding it corresponding to the locations of other major cities in the Greater Tokyo Area. As Physarum avoids bright light, light was used to simulate mountains, water and other obstacles in the dish. The mold first densely filled the space with plasmodia, and then thinned the network to focus on efficiently connected branches. The network closely resembled Tokyo's rail system.[73][74] P. polycephalum was used in experimental laboratory approximations of motorway networks of 14 geographical areas: Australia, Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, UK and US.[75][76][77] The filamentary structure of P. polycephalum forming a network to food sources is similar to the large scale galaxy filament structure of the universe. This observation has led astronomers to use simulations based on the behaviour of slime molds to inform their search for dark matter....."
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PIC VAT. My first ever plate, from 5 years ago this month (maybe this week)
No slime molds, but it's slimy, has mold, and bacteria, and shroom mycleium. That is NOT an orange agar, the orange is from the bacteria. 

My first ever plate, July 2020. Has mold AND bacteria! (and some shroom mycleium)