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  • Nov 30, 2020

    It isn’t a fruit or vegetable, it isn’t a fiber, and it certainly isn’t a protein. Then what is a mushroom?

    Other than the mouthwatering anticipation with which chefs and foragers harvest morels or golden chanterelles from the Gallatin Valley each year, or prized truffles from France or Italy, most of us don’t often give the mushroom the same attention as local beef, trout, or fresh produce.

    Classified as fungi, mushrooms are referred to as hidden kingdoms unto themselves. They have a symbiotic relationship with plants, animals, and other fungi, as well as a parasitic one.

    The study of mushrooms is called mycology, which differs from the disciplines of biology and botany. And while you may never think about the white buttons in the blue Styrofoam in the produce section, they just may be the most unique food you’ll ever eat.

    Most of us believe the round, colorful structure we see growing above ground to be the whole mushroom, when in fact that is merely the “fruit” of a much larger organism living underground made up of connected filaments called mycelium.

    Modern day scientists say that mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants, the primary reasons being they “breathe” oxygen and “exhale” carbon dioxide like humans, rather than the reverse in the plant world. And mushrooms contain no chlorophyll.

    The late ethnobotanist Terence McKenna suggested that mushrooms are responsible for human intelligence as we know it. His theory hypothesized that mushroom spores possess all of the necessary requirements to travel on space currents. Furthermore, they could have settled in the brain matter of primitive humanoids and, following the lines of modern day hallucinogenic mushrooms, directly contributed to our modern day intelligence and self awareness.

    McKenna went on to theorize that mushrooms are the reason there is human life on earth.

    While this may seem like material from a science fiction novel, there is no avoiding the fact that mushrooms possess many traits that are unique to their kingdom alone.

    Fungi build cell walls out of chitin, the same material that makes up the hard outer shells of insects and other arthropods. These cell walls contain similar chemicals found in butterfly and beetle wings, as well as the plumage of some colorful birds, such as peacocks.

    Living spores have been found and collected in every level of earth’s atmosphere. Mushroom spores are electron-dense and can survive in the vacuum of space. Additionally, their outer layer is actually metallic and of a purple hue, which naturally allows the spore to deflect ultraviolet light. And as if all this wasn’t unique enough, the outer shell of the spore is the hardest organic compound to exist in nature.

    Who knows, maybe I’ll look to the stars the next time I enjoy a fresh, sautéed Crimini mushroom with a glass of Nebbiolo in hopes of seeing a mushroom-shaped constellation.

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    i aint read all this yet but mushrooms are fungi

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    ANITA MAX WYNNNN

    i aint read all this yet but mushrooms are fungi

    Living spores have been found and collected in every level of earth’s atmosphere. Mushroom spores are electron-dense and can survive in the vacuum of space. Additionally, their outer layer is actually metallic and of a purple hue, which naturally allows the spore to deflect ultraviolet light. And as if all this wasn’t unique enough, the outer shell of the spore is the hardest organic compound to exist in nature.

  • oh nvm that was a rhetorical question

  • I AM LOVE

    Living spores have been found and collected in every level of earth’s atmosphere. Mushroom spores are electron-dense and can survive in the vacuum of space. Additionally, their outer layer is actually metallic and of a purple hue, which naturally allows the spore to deflect ultraviolet light. And as if all this wasn’t unique enough, the outer shell of the spore is the hardest organic compound to exist in nature.

    wtf

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    b**** we’re in outer space rn

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    We are Mushrooms. So most likely yes

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    Wayworld

    We are Mushrooms. So most likely yes

    Na we're humans

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    thread roe jogan inspired

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    I AM LOVE

    Na we're humans

    What’s a human

  • Nov 30, 2020
    I AM LOVE

    Living spores have been found and collected in every level of earth’s atmosphere. Mushroom spores are electron-dense and can survive in the vacuum of space. Additionally, their outer layer is actually metallic and of a purple hue, which naturally allows the spore to deflect ultraviolet light. And as if all this wasn’t unique enough, the outer shell of the spore is the hardest organic compound to exist in nature.

    Mushrooms actually sound like the ultimate life form

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    Nute

    What’s a human

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    My theory? Shrooms were sent on Earth, or arrived by themselves, to accelerate the evolution of life and consciousness

  • FlipFlop

    ...a mushroom

    ...

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    Fella off the shrooms

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    bruh take Gen Bio 101

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    I AM LOVE

    Na we're humans

    Humans and Mushrooms share DNA and are very alike. Interesting stuff

  • BRUNTZ 🖤
    Nov 30, 2020

    aliens are mushrooms

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    Love McKenna. Such a wise and insightful person.

    I need to try shrooms again. The high I had from it last time was just so strange compared to what I expected

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    Jason

    Love McKenna. Such a wise and insightful person.

    I need to try shrooms again. The high I had from it last time was just so strange compared to what I expected

    What do you mean? I'm hesitant about tripping again, my last trip has me a bit fearful of the psychedelic headspace

  • plants 🌻
    Nov 30, 2020

    Mushrooms are cool af.

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    Chubby Gambino

    What do you mean? I'm hesitant about tripping again, my last trip has me a bit fearful of the psychedelic headspace

    Respect the mushroom bruh

    It's a journey not a trip

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    I AM LOVE

    My theory? Shrooms were sent on Earth, or arrived by themselves, to accelerate the evolution of life and consciousness

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    Terrence McKenna one of the strangest dudes of all time. Super interesting to listen to tho.

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    Look up stoned ape theory