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The Mystical World Of Mushrooms Captured In Photos

Most people consider mushrooms to be the small, ugly cousins of the plant kingdom, but theirs is a surprisingly beautiful and wonderful world waiting to be explored. These beautiful mushrooms, captured by enthusiastic nature photographers, are a far cry from the ones you find in the woods or your local grocery store.

Most mushrooms, as we know them, are actually just the reproductive structure of the fungus they belong to – their fungal networks expand far further underground, and some fungi don’t even sprout the sort of mushrooms that we’re used to seeing. In fact, depending on your definition of “organism,” the largest living organism in the world is a fungus – there’s a honey mushroom colony in Oregon that occupies about 2,000 acres of land!

Via: boredpanda

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My mushroom is now TWO MUSHROOMS YEAH

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Would sw mushrooms eat brine shrimp or copeapods

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No, their mouth is too small! If anything, they really only eat phytoplankton. Not 100% sure but they might eat zooplankton as well. All corals benefit from food but mushrooms don’t need much at all compared to other corals!

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Awesome I have a little 2.5 gallon sw tank with a homemade in tank air driven filter with one smaller Halimeda macro algae and the only inhabitants are tiger pods, brine shrimp, and amphiapods. I was wondering if they would eat them or not.

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shitposting-sjw-garbage: “ catladynextdoor: “ coolthingoftheday: “ Long before plants overtook the planet, the Earth was covered in giant, tree-sized mushrooms. (Source) ” This sounds bogus but check the source - Smithsonian Mag. Weird, but...
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Long before plants overtook the planet, the Earth was covered in giant, tree-sized mushrooms.

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This sounds bogus but check the source - Smithsonian Mag. Weird, but apparently according to the SM article I was linked to, true.

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your friendly neighborhood autistic with paleontology as a special interest, here to expand on this a bit!

the image is fake. but:

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conclusion: ANCIENT EARTH HAD GIANT DONGS GROWING OUT OF IT. ALL OVER THE PLACE.

thank you for your time.

Source: coolthingoftheday
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This 144-Year-Old Wisteria In Japan Looks Like A Pink Sky

These stunning photographs, which look like a glorious late evening sky with dashes of pink and purple, are actually pictures of Japan’s largest wisteria (or wistaria, depending on whom you ask) plant.

This plant, located in Ashikaga Flower Park in Japan, is certainly not the largest in the world, but it still comes in at an impressive 1,990 square meters (or half an acre) and dates back to around 1870 (the largest, at about 4,000 square meters, is the wisteria vine in Sierra Madre, California). Although wisterias can look like trees, they’re actually vines. Because its vines have the potential to get very heavy, this plant’s entire structure is held up on steel supports, allowing visitors to walk below its canopy and bask in the pink and purple light cast by its beautiful hanging blossoms.

Image credits: Takao Tsushima

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You just want to lay out a blanket and lie under there!

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scienceyoucanlove: “Japan’s maglev bullet train breaks 12-year speed record How does travelling at 590 k/h (366 mph) sound? A Japanese maglev bullet train owned by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) made history last week by hitting a top...
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Japan’s maglev bullet train breaks 12-year speed record
How does travelling at 590 k/h (366 mph) sound?

A Japanese maglev bullet train owned by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) made history last week by hitting a top speed of 590 k/h (366 mph) on a test run through the Yamanashi prefecture in central Japan.

This beats the previous speed record of 580 k/h (361 mph), which has been standing since December 2003, and a spokesperson for JR Central says they expect to beat the record again tomorrow, when a second test run could hit speeds of 600 k/h.

The train can achieve such ridiculous speeds because rather than running directly on tracks, which causes a whole lot of friction, it’s suspended above the rails using very powerful magnetic levitation - “Maglev” is an abbreviation of “magnetic levitation”.

Right now, the tracks run between Uenohara and Fuefuki - two cities west of Tokyo - but JR Central plans to expand this to connect Tokyo with Nagoya in the country’s centre by 2027. That’s when they say the public will be able to ride in this new, super-speedy model, but it’ll likely be limited to 500 km/h.

Which still sounds amazing, compared to the speeds we get elsewhere in the world. As Fiona MacDonald reported for us late last year, “Australia is stuck with trains that generally max out at a comparative crawl of around 160 km/h, and in the US, the top speed of rail transport is around 240 km/h.”

In fact, the Japanese public have already experienced speeds of over 500 km/h, when an earlier model of the bullet train took 100 lucky passengers on the ride of a lifetime, which actually looked incredibly smooth.

Meanwhile, China is working on something even more outlandish, announcing last year that it’s developing a maglev train inside a near-vacuum space that, in theory,could travel 2,900 km/h - three times faster than a plane - due to the lack of air resistance. And Elon Musk’s Hyperloop train, designed to transport people across America at speeds of 1,200 km/h might just make it from pipe dream to reality thanks to a super-savvy group of engineers that have recently taken on the project.

Whatever the future holds for transport, one thing’s for sure: it’s gonna be fast.

source (also you can watch/listen to the video there)

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Gunkanjima, Japan: The Forbidden Island

This island is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture of Japan about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. It began in 1890 when a company called Mitsubishi bought the island and began a project to retrieve coal from the bottom of the sea. 

This attracted much attention, and in 1916 they were forced to build Japan’s first large concrete building on the island. A block of apartments that would both accommodate the seas of workers and protect them from hurricanes. 

In 1959, population had swelled, and boasted a density of 835 people per hectare for the whole island (1,391 per hectare for the residential district), one of the highest population densities ever recorded worldwide. As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in the 1960’s, coal mines began shutting down all over the country, and Hashima’s mines were no exception. 

In 1974 Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine, and today it is empty and bare, with travel currently prohibited. (Source) 

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