Friday, October 21, 2016

The Mind is in the Mycelium

The mycelium is the fine network of organic fibers which connects mushrooms, sometimes over large distances.  Some say this gives them a consciousness and we're glad of that since the consciousness gives us magic mushrooms.

The mycelium seems like it was the source of one of the fundamental ideas in "Avatar" of creatures which are interconnected, sometimes directly with the magic hair / mind thing which lets them ride dragons.  I don't know if I have the balls for dragon riding but it sure looks cool.


Stealing good sci fi ideas from Nature is all fair and is just like stealing music from the classical masters which is cool if you have the skill to do it but please don't do Pachelbel's Canon in D on an electric guitar again.  Thank you.


We love the beauty of the idea all things are connecting and, wow, man ... everything is everything.

That's all just hippie crap until you look at that mycelium and think what business could a mushroom have with another mushroom except creating more mushrooms but these ones have a Bell telephone network established.  If the mushrooms are just using it for sexting then they're doomed but Die Kaninchen know, don't you.

It's Much More Than This.

The mushrooms are just waiting, planning, looking for when they can make their move.  All the while we have been eating them and they have tolerated that for the greater goodness of mushrooms but they know their time will come ... and they wait.


Well, no, I haven't eaten one lately and the last one was maybe five years ago.  After that it became too hard to find them since mostly our beloved underground focuses on the supremo ganja.  In the sixties there was reefer and after that came primo.  Today's offerings are with the Ganja Supremo and it's so powerful it will even stone your children ... when they're two states away.

No-one wants to stone children so be careful out there.


The latest ganja is the most formidable in quite a while.  There are some seriously regrettable physical side-effects which will culminate in a Confrontation with Fate but the stonefulness of the ganja is extraordinary.

This is the kind of ganja which gets you thinking after you watch "Avatar" that, man, I should find a way to connect to that mushroom mycelium and then I'll see Jesus or at least find some magic mushrooms.


It's great ganja but I still don't have an answer solid enough for the waste heat from the Rock City.  The strongest candidate seems to be using it for agriculture but that's so mundane.  Surely there's a solution which has some jazz to it.


Since I really don't have an idea where Ithaka is going anyway and I don't want the Rock City project to die, this seems a peach of a time to spin it back up again to have it out with this hot water problem.  This includes all water from the city and it's ok to use it for the fields because it won't be radioactive or have evil chemicals in it.  By the Rules of the Rock, it has to be clean.  The problem is that it's too hot in temperature.

That should be the next article since rolling it in with the mycelium is too strange, even for Ithaka.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

How would water coming out of Rock City not be evil. 5million people will touch it or thier waste products be in it.
Not to mention dishwater washing machines and general cleaning

Unknown said...

That's the stuff usually called 'grey water' coming off showers, dishwashers, and whatnot. I'm not clear on how much is done to such water before it's returned to the environment and that's a big interest because the Rock City has to make it clean.

There's the sewage water which is apparently successfully recycled on the space station but that needs confirmation as well. It seems it's mandatory as boosting enough water to be used as recklessly as down here seems impossible.

Those two seem the biggest problems so I want recycle systems jacked to space station levels. That will cost zooks but a recycle system will be necessary anyway because hardly anywhere will simply dump raw sewage, etc.

Anonymous said...

Recyling for 3 or 4 is not quite the same as millions.
Hell The Hillary tour bus does it into storm drains in Atlanta. Quite the testimony for do as I say not as I do

Unknown said...

Sure but recycles from the three or four get channeled to some recycle plant and now we get to some serious process on what they do with it. They seem ok with pulling the paper out of it and plastic to make carpet in one application. That needs to get eons better as I believe there are millions of millions of cellphones in the world. A really crafty recycling system will grind them up into tiny pieces to get the raw materials out of them, rare earths and whatnot.

I saw that in Atlanta and so unbelievably low rent to do such a thing but low rent doesn't do that, only richies who ... just suck. Arrogant pigdogs.