Re:Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior from Seque...
by Mordisquitos on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:19PM
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> I hope it's all fungi and I hope it's edible.
That reminds me of a passage from H.G. Wells's «The First Men In The Moon», where the narrator protagonist is so hungry that he can't help but take a bite out of some fungi-like lunar vegetation, and convinces his colleague Cavor to indulge in it as well... but the fungi happens to be psychoactive!
That reminds me of a passage from H.G. Wells's «The First Men In The Moon», where the narrator protagonist is so hungry that he can't help but take a bite out of some fungi-like lunar vegetation, and convinces his colleague Cavor to indulge in it as well... but the fungi happens to be psychoactive!
If anyone's interested, it's at the end of Chapter XI, «The Mooncalf Pastures», from the paragraph that begins “We roused ourselves...” onward: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1013/1013-h/1013-h.htm#chap1...