Really neat. I knew many of the facts but still very nice. The part that referenced Avatar was a bit fake, but that is always like that with media coming to scientists when they go on about "could you just hold this instrument and walk from here to there and look like you found something interesting"
- we had some of that already.
I loved how she described mycelium as the network connecting all trees in the forest that also channels nutrients and maybe chemical information from tree to tree, nurturing young or shaded trees. That is true even for different species of trees, I read elsewhere. And cool that they are looking for what would be the "brain" of the plants now that they know that they do act like they seem to have one. Who knows - maybe roots connected by mycelium will in the end prove to be that and then I will be right when I wrote some years ago that the properties of funghi remind me of what was on Pandora Eywa and thought if maybe that is what Eywa might also be on Pandora - after all if all the trees on Pandora are like Neurons then the mycelium might be the tendrils and synapses connecting them to each other by connecting the roots in a relatively fast changing way
05-10-2013, 04:14 PM
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