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    The Bizarre Collective Consciousness of Slime Mold
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    Image of Feyhra Feyhra
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Bizarre Collective Consciousness of Slime Mold
    I got something like that in a coffee cup under my bed. Mine's not as impressive though.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/28/09

    @Feyhra: Give it time and half a bagel.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Bizarre Collective Consciousness of Slime Mold
    MM!! RASPBERRIES!


    *PBBBT*

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Bizarre Collective Consciousness of Slime Mold
    Ooh, pretty!

    Like the new gallery feature.

    Clicky, clicky, click!
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Bizarre Collective Consciousness of Slime Mold
    Fungi are some of the weirdest critters on this planet. They not animals or plants. They are the main reason biologists historically created a third taxonomic kingdom, the protista.*


    * Which has recently be replaced by a new scheme. Biology never stands still.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/28/09

    @corpore-metal: Because if it did stand still something would eat it.


    When I was a kid my dad and I kept a slime mold in a terrarium for a while. One of the Fuligo species. Not as interesting as a fish tank but better than watching paint dry. We'd check it out every day; "Hey, now it's in this corner.", "Now it looks like a sponge or coral", "Here come the spores".

    Good times.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    05/28/09

    @Grey_Area: I knew somebody who kept the same little dish of agar for years with random bacteria/fungus growing on it. His parents never let him have real pets.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to The Bizarre Collective Consciousness of Slime Mold
    "I collect spores, molds, and fungus."


    ~My hero.

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