Post by Linty McGinty on Mar 12, 2007 6:14:17 GMT -5
i don't have the actual figures with me right now...
but when do you think fungi first started growing and evolving on this planet? i mean, so far as our fossil records indicate.
before woody plants?
before flowering plants?
before ferns?
wrong wrong wrong. fossil records show them to be quite recent, i will come back with a time or you can look it up if interested.
fungal spores are tiny, but incredibly hard and persistent.
they could easily survive in space for however long is necessary.
they are produced in great number. let's imagine there was a volcano that blasted some into space, the same way that olympus mons has blasted pieces of mars into space. or let's imagine they are so successful on their home planet that mushrooms grow out past the atmosphere, carrying other types of fungal spores with them too!!! even more radically, they might have utilised the technology of a space-faring race.
billions and billions of spores could be scattered in every direction and survive the duration of their drifting.
the timeline is reasonable. it could have sprang up somewhere before our sun was born.
for an immortal, timeless spore... drifting from one solar system to another is as easy as drifting down a river. surviving re-entry is no problem, and ultra violet or other cosmic radiation isn't a major threat (but in some scenarious it could certainly destroy spores)
fungus lives cheap!
next time you see a mushroom, or some slimy crap, consider that you might be looking at an alien. something infinitely more successful at spreading and surviving than mere humans may ever know.
seriously.
but when do you think fungi first started growing and evolving on this planet? i mean, so far as our fossil records indicate.
before woody plants?
before flowering plants?
before ferns?
wrong wrong wrong. fossil records show them to be quite recent, i will come back with a time or you can look it up if interested.
fungal spores are tiny, but incredibly hard and persistent.
they could easily survive in space for however long is necessary.
they are produced in great number. let's imagine there was a volcano that blasted some into space, the same way that olympus mons has blasted pieces of mars into space. or let's imagine they are so successful on their home planet that mushrooms grow out past the atmosphere, carrying other types of fungal spores with them too!!! even more radically, they might have utilised the technology of a space-faring race.
billions and billions of spores could be scattered in every direction and survive the duration of their drifting.
the timeline is reasonable. it could have sprang up somewhere before our sun was born.
for an immortal, timeless spore... drifting from one solar system to another is as easy as drifting down a river. surviving re-entry is no problem, and ultra violet or other cosmic radiation isn't a major threat (but in some scenarious it could certainly destroy spores)
fungus lives cheap!
next time you see a mushroom, or some slimy crap, consider that you might be looking at an alien. something infinitely more successful at spreading and surviving than mere humans may ever know.
seriously.