![]() ![]() ![]() Though some criticize Star Trek: Discovery for its reliance on the spore drive, I think it's just as easy to suspend your disbelief regarding the spore drive as it is for the better known warp drive. Learn more about the billion year partnership between plants and fungi, the fungi that farm bacteria like human agriculture, black fungi that can use radiation to grow, and the largest organism in the world (spoiler - it's a fungus) for some ideas of what's possible in the real world of fungi. In fact, even bacteria use " hyphal highways" to travel through soil and move much further than bacteria who cannot use fungal mycelium to transport themselves to more food and resources.įungi are infamously known for not following rules as well as other biological groups. Mycelium can transport nutrients between different plants or trees, and real-life Paul Stamets has the called the real-life mycelial network "Earth's natural internet". But in real life, mycelium of belowground fungi connect plants and trees together, and have even been show to communicate with each other. In real life, the mycelial network disappointingly does not exist as a higher dimensional space we can traverse. GettyĬan we really travel the mycelial network? Does it connect everything? Dried psilocybin-producing mushrooms showing the characteristic blue tinge. ![]()
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