mushrooms like jellyfish
Sandra Dodd
In some potting soil we bought, in which the plants are already big
in peat pots and nearly ready to take outside, some little mushrooms
have come up. They're delicate and nearly clear and look like jelly
fish.
Marty wondered if they could be related to jelly fish. I honestly
have no idea.
Anyone know much about such tiny mystery foreign things?
Sandra
in peat pots and nearly ready to take outside, some little mushrooms
have come up. They're delicate and nearly clear and look like jelly
fish.
Marty wondered if they could be related to jelly fish. I honestly
have no idea.
Anyone know much about such tiny mystery foreign things?
Sandra
Betsy Hill
**
Marty wondered if they could be related to jelly fish. I honestly
have no idea.
Anyone know much about such tiny mystery foreign things?**
Not exactly. But I had a "Wow, that's amazing!" moment listening to Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything (a few months ago) where he talked about slime molds as a species.
p. 308, quote :
"For years slime molds were claimed as protozoa by zoologists and as fungi by mycologists, though most people could see they really didn't belong anywhere. When genetic testing arrived, people in lab coats were surprised to find that slime molds were so distinctive and peculiar that they weren't directly related to anything else in nature, and sometimes not even to each other."
Also, large colonies of slime mold can apparently bunch up and travel like a slug.
(So, I jumped tracks on you a little, but it seems like a wildly cool topic. It's almost too wild to believe -- in the newspaper I would suspect it was an April Fool's hoax.)
Betsy
Marty wondered if they could be related to jelly fish. I honestly
have no idea.
Anyone know much about such tiny mystery foreign things?**
Not exactly. But I had a "Wow, that's amazing!" moment listening to Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything (a few months ago) where he talked about slime molds as a species.
p. 308, quote :
"For years slime molds were claimed as protozoa by zoologists and as fungi by mycologists, though most people could see they really didn't belong anywhere. When genetic testing arrived, people in lab coats were surprised to find that slime molds were so distinctive and peculiar that they weren't directly related to anything else in nature, and sometimes not even to each other."
Also, large colonies of slime mold can apparently bunch up and travel like a slug.
(So, I jumped tracks on you a little, but it seems like a wildly cool topic. It's almost too wild to believe -- in the newspaper I would suspect it was an April Fool's hoax.)
Betsy
Sandra Dodd
>I found a photo of one. It's on a mushroom page by someone who does
> GROSS:
> "large colonies of slime mold can apparently bunch up and travel
> like a slug. "
know about mushrooms, who also thinks it's a mystery. It's the one
by the paper match head. Some of mine are bigger, and I did look at
it under a microscope and didn't need a slide because we have a top-
and-bottom lit binocular microscope. That's how I know how clear it
is, close-up.
http://americanmushrooms.com/tiniest.htm
So there are living things on this planet as different as bunched-up
travelling slime-mold, and slugs, and butterflies, and whales, and
eels, and crows, and yet on Star Trek all the aliens look like
people. <g>
Sandra
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>\
So there are living things on this planet as different as bunched-up
travelling slime-mold, and slugs, and butterflies, and whales, and
eels, and crows, and yet on Star Trek all the aliens look like
people. <g>
-=--=-=-
Except for tribbles! <g>
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://liveandlearnconference.org
From: Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>\
So there are living things on this planet as different as bunched-up
travelling slime-mold, and slugs, and butterflies, and whales, and
eels, and crows, and yet on Star Trek all the aliens look like
people. <g>
-=--=-=-
Except for tribbles! <g>
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://liveandlearnconference.org
Joyce Fetteroll
On May 1, 2006, at 7:19 AM, kbcdlovejo@... wrote:
Speaking of Star Trek ...
Did you know they're making new old episodes?
Some of the original people are involved in the project. It's all
donated time. The episodes are downloadable for free and watchable on
Windows Media Player. (Some have been converted to other formats.)
Here's a faq about the project:
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/1024/faq.php
The set and sounds and camera angles all look like the original show.
The special effects are better. I've only watched the beginning of
the pilot episode so far and the acting's a bit stiff but I peeked at
the 1st episode and they seem to have relaxed and aren't obviously
trying to channel the original actors.
Here's one of the mirror sites to download the two episodes available
so far. Don't do the vingnette "Center Seat" first like I did. It's
very uncomfortable to watch like 3 guys at a Trek convention
pretending to be Sulu, de Salle and Kirk. ;-) Maybe it was filmed first.
http://www.newvoyages.pauley79.com/
If that doesn't work, there's a list of mirror sites at the New
Voyages site:
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/1024/episodes.php
though the list of episodes at that site is confusing. Come What May
is the Pilot and In Harm's Way is the 1st episode. (There's a link
there to software to "convert to Mac" but that's not necessary.
Windows Media Player works fine on Macs.)
Joyce
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> Except for tribbles! <g>And horta. :-)
Speaking of Star Trek ...
Did you know they're making new old episodes?
Some of the original people are involved in the project. It's all
donated time. The episodes are downloadable for free and watchable on
Windows Media Player. (Some have been converted to other formats.)
Here's a faq about the project:
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/1024/faq.php
The set and sounds and camera angles all look like the original show.
The special effects are better. I've only watched the beginning of
the pilot episode so far and the acting's a bit stiff but I peeked at
the 1st episode and they seem to have relaxed and aren't obviously
trying to channel the original actors.
Here's one of the mirror sites to download the two episodes available
so far. Don't do the vingnette "Center Seat" first like I did. It's
very uncomfortable to watch like 3 guys at a Trek convention
pretending to be Sulu, de Salle and Kirk. ;-) Maybe it was filmed first.
http://www.newvoyages.pauley79.com/
If that doesn't work, there's a list of mirror sites at the New
Voyages site:
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/1024/episodes.php
though the list of episodes at that site is confusing. Come What May
is the Pilot and In Harm's Way is the 1st episode. (There's a link
there to software to "convert to Mac" but that's not necessary.
Windows Media Player works fine on Macs.)
Joyce
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Nancy Wooton
On May 1, 2006, at 4:19 AM, kbcdlovejo@... wrote:
pigs or hamsters. Hortas, on the other hand, *are* alien "people," but
look like giant rubber vomit on a shag rug. Otherwise, most of 'em do
look like us, but they explained why in a Next Generation episode
\\//__
Nancy (rearing a third generation of Trek geeks)
> So there are living things on this planet as different as bunched-upWell, tribbles aren't sentient life forms; they're more like guinea
> travelling slime-mold, and slugs, and butterflies, and whales, and
> eels, and crows, and yet on Star Trek all the aliens look like
> people. <g>
>
> -=--=-=-
>
> Except for tribbles! <g>
>
pigs or hamsters. Hortas, on the other hand, *are* alien "people," but
look like giant rubber vomit on a shag rug. Otherwise, most of 'em do
look like us, but they explained why in a Next Generation episode
\\//__
Nancy (rearing a third generation of Trek geeks)