glowing mushroom article
 

Sadly this one is in German, but maybe some find it interesting:
http://www.cybervisuals.ch/work/biol...ende_pilze.pdf
Biolumineszenz
Basically it says that there are quite a few biolumi mushrooms, some of them even very common in temperate climates. It also says, that glowing mushrooms and glowing wood (with mushroom mycelium) have been used in (pre-)history as light sources for houses, as glowing jewelry, to mark paths in the forest that are visible at night and as a transportable light source to guide people through the forest at night.

There are some photos, some only needed an exposure time of some seconds, which means that the light is considerable. Not as bright as a candle though. They also seem to have linked descriptions on how to grow these mushrooms. I might try that :)

Aurora: Bioluminescent Glow in the Dark Mushroom Habitat Kit

Have fun. OwO

Nice! :D
Bioluminescent garden :)

Oh yeah, I sort of considered getting that once, but I'm no good at maintaining plants. Maybe sometime in the future :)

Irayo for the link to the site ma tsmuk, I will be ordering two kits to set up on the headboard of our Queen size bed this afternoon.
Niri Te

Irayo for the link to the German article on the glowing mushrooms, Auroraglacialis. I had little problem understanding it, I sometimes go to the German threads on Learn Navi, and here and lurk a lot, but occaisionally post there as well. I have started an E-subscription with the Munchner Merkur to refresh my memory banks on the German that I have not used since I left Germany in 1982.
I have noticed something. When I use the portion of my brain that knew how to speak German very well, my ability to learn Na'vi is enhanced. As soon as my German gets just a LIIIITLE bit better, I will start conversing on the German sites, it will help my learning Na'vi.

Pretty cool, definitely~! :)

Found this when I went googling around for more info .. Gold nanoparticles can cause plants to glow in the dark some scientists have discovered!

Gold nanoparticles that make leaves glow in the dark

Now where can one find gold nanoparticles .... ? ;)

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Nice one, that kit. I dont get the nanoparticle thing though. It claims that no energy source is needed, but the energy for the light has to come somewhere...

Light is energy... :P - in this case, it comes from bioelectric energy (the same as bioluminescence from, for example, luciferase) - in the linked case, from photosynthesis during daytime, although if this is deployed as an LED-like technology, it will likely then use a normal current, I'd guess.

Irayo for the links Aurora y Raiden :D the glowing mushrooms on the photos give a clear Pandoran impression :D I know that some Amazonian women put glowing plants & wigs & even beetles in their hair as adornments.

hehe languages do that to you :D the more languages you learn, the more they seem to "conspire". I started learning Italian after I already knew English, French & German (learned in that order) - & when I was trying to remember a new Italian word, the words from the previous languages were coming to my memory on LIFO (last in first out) basis: German-French-English - and then Italian! go figure... :S
I even learned a bit of Arabic later on - but I lost some languages due to the lack of practice :( they like attention & if they feel they're not getting it, they feel abandoned & go away :S I lost three of them this way, so may my sad language story be a lesson for those who learn languages, & are also willing to learn from - somebody else's :P - mistakes!

OK now back to glowing mushrooms & plants :)

But I REAAAAALLLY want that moss that twinkles when you step on it!
I once read a Heinlein book where the guy's living room floor had a grass carpet.
The only grass left on our planet. Now I want my bathroom to have a moss floor and a natural stone waterfall with bioluminesent plants all over!

WATCH WHAT YOU ASK FOR, oeya yawnetu. I'm not sure about the moss, but I CAN do it sub tropical after we build the second roof over the first, allowing us to super insulate the 13 by 22 foot master bathroom off the north wall of our bedroom. I could get five or six sets of the glowing mushrooms, a couple of rubber plants, and if we were willing to put up some grow-lux lights out of our sight, a Hibiscus plant or two, and with the room heated in the winter, we even could grow a banana tree in the south west corner of the room, but it will never produce any fruit. the floor would be beach sand, six inches thick, the free form hot tub would go into the ground, in the north east corner, with the lava rock water fall draining into it.
Before any of you folks Poo-Poo what I am saying, I have taught oeya Ateyo a LOT about home construction as the two of us have built our own hanger home for 1/100th of what it would cost us to have someone else to do it. Yes we CAN build it exactly as what I am saying here, I just want to see if she is willing to invest the sweat equity in front of moeya soaia.
Your loving muntxate, Niri Te

KOSMAN! Our own piece of Pandora! You've GOT IT, oeya yawnete! If you can figure out the filtration system, we've got it made! Shower first under the waterfall ?!?
Large flat rock to dry off on?

Oeya yawnetu, On the ceiling, I could paint the summer constellations as they would appear in Samoa complete with the Southern Cross, with flouresent white paint, and hide two black lights out of sight. THEN we will put a "mood CD" of surf crashing on the shore, what do you think??
Niri Te

TEWTI! The best of both worlds! Maybe we can get the iridescent tree frogs or have aquariums built into the walls! I could paint a mural across all the walls of a Pandoran jungle!

^^^^ whoah the two of you!! :awesome: for now, I would be happy with the "mood CD" with the surf & whatever else it has to offer. I listened to it (the surf sound) once in somebody's house during a massage session, it was such a feeling of peace. Where can I get it?

They sell them at any Walmart or Target here in the States. PM me a mailing address, and I will mail you one.
Niri Te

Small aviary in the corner where the banana tree is for tropical finches?

Niri Te! Stop eating the Teylu! They are for my frogs and salamanders!

OH OH OH !!!!!!!!!!!!
Room dividers and dressing screens made of fabric to resemble the fans on the heads of a hammerhead monster (angsip?)

DRESSING SCREENS?!?!? Oeya yawnetu, it is only the two of us that will be in there, and we have seen each other ohne kleidung many times already.
Brie

:D
Nice ideas.
I once thought of getting a grass carpet in my appartment in the top floor. Thought of using pond tarp and some clay pebbles and then on top of that a fabric and then the soil and grass. Basically like a huge potted plant. But of course it was just fantasy - I think it would have worked, but I am not sure about the weight of it all (Dont want to sit in the living room of the people below). Also of course I did not own the house or flat, so I could not legally do anything - I was even getting in trouble just for having tomatoe plants outside my window.
Sand in the bathroom - nice idea, but I guess it would carry all around the house eventually :P

In the summer we can have an enclosed outdoor shower and keep the beach sand outdoors. Hm. I HATE practical limitations! Let alone limitations set by apartmnt managers! SHEESH!

The problem of tracking the sand into the rest of the house would be solved by the outflow from hot tub being routed as a "small stream" about a foot wide, and four of five inches deep, right in front of the door to the rest of the house. You would step onto a flat rock, then into the "stream", and out onto another flat rock that would be immediately in front of the of the door (Garade vor die Tor?), where your feet would wind up before going into the house. The "Stream"
would disappear beneath vegetation to the reservoir for the pump that would return the water to the heater for it's return to the hot tub, via under ground piping that Tee, (Ateyo) and I are installing ourselves.
Niri Te

You guys have got it all figured out :xD:

You wouldn't be able to do the glowing plants, but you could make an outdoor jacuzzi/pool and grow those plants around it. You could also build a heated greenhouse and grow tropical plants and mosses in there around some kind of water feature.

Ateyo and I have been building this retirement palace since 2003. The two of us have been designing the master Bath, that will house the Hot tub for a year. The room is completely framed in, and sheathed, with the insulation in place.
In April, we will start laying the plumbing for the toilet, stand up two person shower, twin sinks, and the in ground, free form, lava rock hot tub, with the waterfall hot water, supply, and the foot washing return "stream". Some time in May or June, we will have the beach sand, and all the landscaping in place, and have our first official soak together.

ta Niri Te

Wow, sounds nice. Are you considering some solar powered way to heat the whole thing or is it going to take a large propane tank outside to keep it running like that. I mean - we are already worried about taking a bath once a week in warm water because it takes about 2-3 liters of oil to heat it and another 3-4 liters per day to keep the water warm in the reservoir, not to mention how much it would take to keep the bathtub warm at all times...

Right now, we heat the house and the water with propane UNTIL we pour the next hanger floor. In the floor which acts like a trombe wall, is a "radiator" of PEX tubing. This is a special type of "plastic" tubing that you can bend fairly small radius turns into. We will use this to pick up the winter sun, The hanger roof blocks the floor from the Summer sun, store it's heat in the 40 by 25 foot, 6 inch thick concrete slab. The transfer pumps the water from the heat sink,
(the hanger floor), to more PEX radiators encapsulated in the floors of the house, valving allows us to shut off the water flow to unused rooms while we are sleeping, conserving the heat for the bedroom, and master bathroom. (Yes, you will be walking in warm sand).
As for the hot water, this spring as the money becomes available, the two of us will build our own solar water heaters, for ONE TENTH, (or even less) the cost of purchasing the units. Once that is done, the propane tank will remain as a back up system, that would be rarely, if ever used, except during periodic maintainance.
ta Niri Te

very cool :) or rather warm :) Lucky you are in Texas where it is not too cold, I guess. The -20°C we had two weeks ago would have killed any solar water system that is not a complex one running on antifreeze. I am planning on building a fairly simple warm water system here, it will only operate from late spring to fall, I think, but it may save us the trouble of having to use oil at all in summer. I try to use low cost materials but it is actually not easy to get this cheap. And the commercial collectors are amazingly cheap these days...