We can't even grow most bacteria in labs. It's a pretty small subset that work with the traditional agar petri dish set up.
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Gotta love oligotrophy. Some lichens grow inside rocks... definitely can't replicate that in a lab (although not for lack of trying).
We can't even grow most bacteria in labs.
And that doesn't even get to the level of Archaea. Some of which we only know about because of genetic material.
Id watch a 2h youtube video about this 👀
I'd sink a months worth of time and ADHD medication on this
oh my god @nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone what gave you done. here goes my free time
i'm sorry, i know not the power i wield
For anyone else who was curious about lichens covering "a not insignificant amount" of the earth's surface, a quick google tells me it's about 7% (according to e.g. new york times, scientific american, etc)
I would like to propose an addition to the Forbidden Knowledge list:
- Do not teach crabs how to read
- Do not tell any lichen that “red wunz go fasta”
Will we get Orkz one day when some mad scientist decides to cross lichen with Florida man?
i imagine alien hivemind organisms looking at earth and our cities upon it and thinking "what are these growths and why aren't the samples we collect producing them?"
And I thought mushrooms were complicated...
I've never thought about it. I always just assumed lichen was just a specific type of moss.
Same. The more I learn about fungus and their related kin, the more I realize I don't get them lol.
To be fair, based on mycology memes I’ve seen nobody gets fungi or their kin. (Nobody who knows enough to listen to, at least.)
That's why they scare me and I refuse to eat them
For anyone interested, I really recommend the book / audio book Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake.
I liked the book so much that I later on bought the audio book. It's entertaining, filled with facts, but not overly scientific to a degree where it can't be enjoyed by a layman.
Thanks! Definitely saving this comment for future reading.
What the fuck is lichen
The short answer: fungus and algae work together and create a multi-organism structure.
The medium answer: [this meme]
The long answer: [years of graduate school]
It's a thing that grows on trees and rocks mostly, but can and does grow on basically anything in the goldilocks conditions. They feel like crispy moss if you touch them.
They thrive in graveyards...
What if it’s how our souls are released. Man I’m high and that thought still gives me the call of the void lol
*off screen* Me too!
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If
*off screen* me too!
makes more sense to me than
~me too~
Does that make me a goth?
I'm sorry but, I'm not a physician and thus am not qualified to provide medical advice.
Just need to build a lab in a graveyard then. Checkmate lichens!
I'm no biologist, but I'm pretty sure that this photo I took a while back has a lot of lichen:
That flakey & coral-looking stuff growing on the branches should be lichen.
Lichen deez nuts
gottem
A containment protocol for an ancient plague.
It’s the opposite of not lichen.
And that’s both a pithy retort, as well as an accurate reflection of the ultimate gist of the infographic lol
Meanwhile, it's BFF moss is something like 90% dead plant matter and just a derpy slow sponge. Pinky and the brain.
So, I opened this without looking at the source community. I'm on an RPG meme community as well. I was actually predicting a pun on a certain phylactery-using undead. Only as it was loading did I realize I had a chance for the science memes sub instead.
i did try to work a lich joke in the title but i couldn't think of anything natural or forced enough to be funny. submissions are open though
For fun related fiction viewing, I recommend the horror films:
Both are about "what would happen if nature got mad?" No, not like The Happening
Does "The Last Of Us" count here?
Probably should, right?
The happening. Man I’m still mad I spent time watching that. And I really don’t value my time lmao
Omg thank you, I've only seen Gaia once but I loved it and I forgot the name!
I fucking hate the fact that this 100 story tall image format has become the default on the internet...
What I got out of this is that Dax from DS9 was probably a lichen