Oh

Fuck I'm retarded

But damn

That's huge

Oh yeah, a dumb rabbit hole but funny. Yeah the early trees were just big ferns.

"Pollen? Naw dog, we use spores!"

I don't think such giant mushrooms are possible

Too big to sustain their weight

they've found fossils of them

imagine the spores that it can produce

Don't think I believe that tbh

Giant mushrooms still exist, but they're underground, beneath the forest

What would be the point of a tree sized mushroom?

birch trees are huge organisms

They're all one plant, spread out but not nearly as large as a singular fungus entity

I thought that was Pando

Just Pando

yeah, pando is cool as shit.

@PowerElephant what was the point of crane sized lizards?

there was a point when the surface wasn't hospitable to plant life

fungus can grow in much more extreme climates than plants

What is the mushroom supposed to eat if there's no plant life?

they just need base nutrients

the mycellium is the real organism

the mushroom is just the reproductive portion

large mushroom = more spores

I understand all that but the question remains

they just breakdown whatever they can

some can eat plastic

and petrolium

That's not how mushrooms work

They need organic matter

For energy

I guess it might be possible if it was in some sort of lichen like symbiosis with algae?

Still, height offers no advantage if the earth isn't covered by plant life. There's no one to contest them anyway so what's the point far reaching spores, especialy since they can travel pretty far as is?

Terraform mars with nukes

Heat the atmosphere, release carbon in the ground, put water vapor in the air

I still think mars is pointless to terraform because without a strong magnetosphere, any atmosphere we create will get washed away by solar radiation

But hey mars colonization is the start of greater things to come

Venus isnt doable yet, and mars is rich in metals

@PowerElephant size of an organism doesnt have so much to do with function as it does abundance of resources and lack of competition.