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mushrooms they’re more than just a pizza
topping welcome to watchmojo.com
Stallman we’re counting down our picks
for the top five most interesting and
groundbreaking facts about mushrooms and
the world of fungi so this gives us a
very good starting point towards making
battery materials no our focus will not
be on magic mushrooms but instead the
biological aspects of our fungal friends
if hallucinogens are a topic on which
you’d like to be enlightened well we’ve
got a top 5 facts video about that topic
– it’s trippy free camp
you are freaking out man number 5 the
largest known organism on earth is a
fungus take that blue whales just as
well we might be hungry
don’t worry whales don’t eat clown fish
they eat krill oh look boom our malaria
gulika or honey mushroom as it’s called
in the streets has achieved this
prestigious accolade
don’t go picturing some monstrous
mushroom towering above the forest
this guy is spread out wide covering
over 3.7 square miles in Eastern Oregon
and weighing an estimated 7,500 tons or
more its mass is mostly made up of
rhizome ores fungus underground root
like system it’s also killed thousands
of trees which may or may not be
considered a good thing depending on how
you look at it
the circle of life in the forest
requires fungi to rot organisms and
recycle them back into the soil and this
colossal machine does so at an
astounding rate a representative from
the Department of Natural Resources
called it the baddest fungus on the
block it didn’t just spring up overnight
though through genetic testing
scientists have estimated the age at
between 1908 thousand six hundred and
fifty years old
number four fungi inherited the earth
millions of years before green and
orange cap mushrooms gave Mario and
Luigi a new lease on life dinosaurs
roamed the earth and see the working
theory for these massive reptiles
extinction involves a meteor a sky sized
cloud of dust and no sunlight for an
extended period of time this resulted in
the death of plants and animals alike
luckily for fungi they don’t
photosynthesize so they thrived in this
dark environment to paraphrase Matthew
5:5 and quote mycologist Paul Stamets
this is when fungi inherited the earth
he’s going to inherit the earth did
anyone catch his name while obtaining
energy by consuming dead plants and
animals certainly isn’t sexy it proved
useful for mushrooms as well as the
organisms that paired with them more
recently scientists discovered a handful
of mushroom varieties that seem to feed
off of radiation so who knows if someday
humanity injures a nuclear winter maybe
fungus will one-up the earth yet again
number three mushrooms eat diesel oyster
mushrooms may look like something
growing on the side of a fairy tale
which is shack but they actually have a
sort of magic of their own Paul Stamets
who is basically the LeBron James of
mycology has carried out tests
demonstrating the mushrooms ability to
decontaminate soil soaked with diesel
over time Stamets has refined the
technique and actually discovered
strains of the mushroom that are
tolerant to salt water allowing him to
create what he calls a Maiko boom a sort
of floating mushroom garden that can be
deployed over maritime oil spills one
can only imagine how the BP oil spill
might have been different with this
technology scientists such as Stamets
have gone on record stating that my
ecology is greatly under funded and that
fungi such as the oyster mushroom may
have large amounts of tangible benefits
to offer us if given the proper
attention for in
since in 2015 a team from the University
of California Riverside discovered that
material from portobello mushrooms can
replace and improve upon the graphite
used in lithium-ion batteries
number two cordyceps zombify insects if
you’re having a rough day try to keep
this in mind at least mushrooms haven’t
tried to eat you alive
Oh feel cordyceps sinensis or
caterpillar fungus isn’t known for
patience or respecting personal space
for that matter as it germinates in
caterpillars while they’re still alive
other quarters at varieties target ants
wasps grasshoppers you name it it’s
infected brain directs this amped-up
which after these unsuspecting prey are
attacked the fungus stays in the host
sometimes for months on end before
killing it and rupturing through the
poor things head the caterpillar fungus
has a long history in chinese folk
medicine and has been used as an
aphrodisiac cure for cancer and just
about everything in between
a couple pounds of the stuff has been
known to fetch the equivalent of
thirty-five thousand dollars in China so
that price that had better cure
everything
number one life on Earth would disappear
without mushrooms we’ve already explored
mushrooms roll as grim reaper
psychedelic drug and delicious pizza
topping but it is also key for the very
survival of life on our planet fungi
plays the role of nature’s recycler
cleaning up the decomposing dead and
sometimes still alive plants and animals
without this service earth would very
soon be covered in layers of debris and
no longer be able to produce new life
without carbon and other elements being
recycled into the soil plants would
eventually stop growing scientists point
to the forests around Chernobyl where
high levels of radioactive contamination
have inhibited fungal activity so much
that fallen trees and leaves hardly
decompose at all research also suggests
that fungi were the first organisms to
leave the ocean and live on land and
played a crucial role in allowing plants
to do the same that circle of life we
take for granted today would be nothing
without mushrooms
so do you have a newfound respect for
fungi are you an aspiring rock star
mycologist for more recyclable top tens
and parasitic top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
mushrooms they’re more than just a pizza
topping welcome to watchmojo.com
Stallman we’re counting down our picks
for the top five most interesting and
groundbreaking facts about mushrooms and
the world of fungi so this gives us a
very good starting point towards making
battery materials no our focus will not
be on magic mushrooms but instead the
biological aspects of our fungal friends
if hallucinogens are a topic on which
you’d like to be enlightened well we’ve
got a top 5 facts video about that topic
– it’s trippy free camp
you are freaking out man number 5 the
largest known organism on earth is a
fungus take that blue whales just as
well we might be hungry
don’t worry whales don’t eat clown fish
they eat krill oh look boom our malaria
gulika or honey mushroom as it’s called
in the streets has achieved this
prestigious accolade
don’t go picturing some monstrous
mushroom towering above the forest
this guy is spread out wide covering
over 3.7 square miles in Eastern Oregon
and weighing an estimated 7,500 tons or
more its mass is mostly made up of
rhizome ores fungus underground root
like system it’s also killed thousands
of trees which may or may not be
considered a good thing depending on how
you look at it
the circle of life in the forest
requires fungi to rot organisms and
recycle them back into the soil and this
colossal machine does so at an
astounding rate a representative from
the Department of Natural Resources
called it the baddest fungus on the
block it didn’t just spring up overnight
though through genetic testing
scientists have estimated the age at
between 1908 thousand six hundred and
fifty years old
number four fungi inherited the earth
millions of years before green and
orange cap mushrooms gave Mario and
Luigi a new lease on life dinosaurs
roamed the earth and see the working
theory for these massive reptiles
extinction involves a meteor a sky sized
cloud of dust and no sunlight for an
extended period of time this resulted in
the death of plants and animals alike
luckily for fungi they don’t
photosynthesize so they thrived in this
dark environment to paraphrase Matthew
5:5 and quote mycologist Paul Stamets
this is when fungi inherited the earth
he’s going to inherit the earth did
anyone catch his name while obtaining
energy by consuming dead plants and
animals certainly isn’t sexy it proved
useful for mushrooms as well as the
organisms that paired with them more
recently scientists discovered a handful
of mushroom varieties that seem to feed
off of radiation so who knows if someday
humanity injures a nuclear winter maybe
fungus will one-up the earth yet again
number three mushrooms eat diesel oyster
mushrooms may look like something
growing on the side of a fairy tale
which is shack but they actually have a
sort of magic of their own Paul Stamets
who is basically the LeBron James of
mycology has carried out tests
demonstrating the mushrooms ability to
decontaminate soil soaked with diesel
over time Stamets has refined the
technique and actually discovered
strains of the mushroom that are
tolerant to salt water allowing him to
create what he calls a Maiko boom a sort
of floating mushroom garden that can be
deployed over maritime oil spills one
can only imagine how the BP oil spill
might have been different with this
technology scientists such as Stamets
have gone on record stating that my
ecology is greatly under funded and that
fungi such as the oyster mushroom may
have large amounts of tangible benefits
to offer us if given the proper
attention for in
since in 2015 a team from the University
of California Riverside discovered that
material from portobello mushrooms can
replace and improve upon the graphite
used in lithium-ion batteries
number two cordyceps zombify insects if
you’re having a rough day try to keep
this in mind at least mushrooms haven’t
tried to eat you alive
Oh feel cordyceps sinensis or
caterpillar fungus isn’t known for
patience or respecting personal space
for that matter as it germinates in
caterpillars while they’re still alive
other quarters at varieties target ants
wasps grasshoppers you name it it’s
infected brain directs this amped-up
which after these unsuspecting prey are
attacked the fungus stays in the host
sometimes for months on end before
killing it and rupturing through the
poor things head the caterpillar fungus
has a long history in chinese folk
medicine and has been used as an
aphrodisiac cure for cancer and just
about everything in between
a couple pounds of the stuff has been
known to fetch the equivalent of
thirty-five thousand dollars in China so
that price that had better cure
everything
number one life on Earth would disappear
without mushrooms we’ve already explored
mushrooms roll as grim reaper
psychedelic drug and delicious pizza
topping but it is also key for the very
survival of life on our planet fungi
plays the role of nature’s recycler
cleaning up the decomposing dead and
sometimes still alive plants and animals
without this service earth would very
soon be covered in layers of debris and
no longer be able to produce new life
without carbon and other elements being
recycled into the soil plants would
eventually stop growing scientists point
to the forests around Chernobyl where
high levels of radioactive contamination
have inhibited fungal activity so much
that fallen trees and leaves hardly
decompose at all research also suggests
that fungi were the first organisms to
leave the ocean and live on land and
played a crucial role in allowing plants
to do the same that circle of life we
take for granted today would be nothing
without mushrooms
so do you have a newfound respect for
fungi are you an aspiring rock star
mycologist for more recyclable top tens
and parasitic top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
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