[ ] Deep Green Has Always Been Mycelium. Ever wonder where networks come from? Heres a speculative (unhinged) hypothesis. For about a bit more than a billion years, mycelium (networking part of mushrooms) were animals just like our ancestors, then they broke off. We, as animals, are more like fungi than plants (plants broke off from animals about 900+ million years before fungi)! And we appear to share common characteristics with fungi: (a) aggressive territoriality (we are either mutually commensal or exploitative predatory--the largest living being in fact is a mycelium that covers over 2,300 acres in northern California and probably the oldest, this mycelium network is over 2,000 years old--if a single cell mycelium were Alexander the Greats size, in its largest manifestation, it would have conquered the entire Solar System and then some), (b) burst our sacs to procreate and give birth, (c) hyphae (ever spreading tendrils sucking out the sugars of the host and replacing it with nutriments, or simply sucking out the life of its host causing a long suffering death--some mycelium specialise only on this part of the recycling of life)--and there are hyphae that coil in two points so they catch, trap and devour nematodes (worms), slicing them like sushi. Clever mushroom, eh? Basically, mycelium are relatively close cousins to animals and they are critical in breaking down vegetation and animals into soils. So, some smart people have used the ready made technology of mycelium to make packaging thats sturdy (mycelium glues and hardens) and decomposes into soil. Hypothesis: Networks, growing networks, are part of our pre-mycelium ancestral code and coded in the DNA of both.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:30:50 +0000
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