When I heard "Paul Stamets" and "Fungus" together, my mind went to star trek, I find that Stamets is inspired by a real-life mycologist of the same name is very cool reference by the ST writers.

Sci Fi is always about the present, but the dude certainly sounds like he is from another planet at times. It is good people are more aware of his work , even if fiction greatly underestimates how odd it is in real life =)

Characterizing Paul Stamets as weird or eccentric seems a bit off. He's no more weird or eccentric than any other scientist I've met. He speaks openly about an experience he had with psychedelic mushrooms which he says cured his lifelong stuttering, which sent him down the mycological rabbit hole. He's worked extensively with the DoD researching antimicrobial properties of fungi, his publications look sound, and some of that work seems wildly beneficial for cancer treatment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7agK0nkiZpA

You probably need to read more of the works, as it gets pretty loopy at times. I was aware of the petrochemical site-remediation DoD work testing his guided evolutionary biology theories. =)

What's the Elon quote? "If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough" If you're not considering ideas someone thinks are crazy, you're not thinking hard enough.

I like cheese goldfish crackers, and don't really care for speculative fiction,

We worry about Elon of late, and really hope he doesn't end up going full Howard Hughes.

Have a great day =)

> We worry about Elon of late

Elon and Stamets in the same club? Sounds rad.

Your menu as a passenger will likely include:

1. Algae

2. Fruiting Fungi specialized in direct human-waste conversion

3. Freshwater Shrimp

4. Worms

5. Fast growing Aquaponics plants

6. insect larva

Elon should reach the same conclusion eventually based on payload cost.

Which item looks like it won’t taste awful after awhile. =)

Seeds, m'dude. Nature's figured out how to transport plants already.

He was a great guest on Rogan. I take Lion’s Mane supplement based on research he pointed to that turned out to be pretty interesting.

Actually, some varieties border on performance enhancers due to molecular structures similar to steroid hormones, and should have been banned by the Olympic committees.

Ganoderma sichuanense ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingzhi_(mushroom) )

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Animals and plants are the youngest, fungi are significantly older, at least almost as old as the oldest multicellular life. "Most forms of life" might be an overstatement, still, depending on how you count.

My mistake, you're correct, fungi are much older than plants. Stupid of me to offer a correction without even a cursory search to confirm what I thought I knew.