Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (2013)

Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by drewfis on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:53PM (#35716695)

What if Fungi were the key to our technological advancement? If we could make fungal computers we could become a bio-technical race like Species 8472 in Star Trek Voyager Season 3 Episode 26.

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by ru552 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:58PM (#35716785)

I watched a documentary that proposed eating mushrooms, and the ensuing hallucinations that happened, as the cause of our Neanderthal ancestors developing free thought and the underpinning of creativity that lead to tool development.

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by acchow on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @02:09PM (#35717780)

There isn't really much "science" to back up these claims. It is fun to think about tho.

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by blaze33 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @02:18PM (#35717909)

Yep, the stoned ape theory! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory Didn't know there was a documentary about it though.

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by dkdbejwi383 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:48PM (#35718997)

The Dune navigator theory of evolution

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by codeflo on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @05:15PM (#35720119)

At least they unlocked the creativity of whoever produced that documentary.

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