How Fungi Will Shape Our Future

[@solarpunkalana]

I'd like to clarify one thing - I slipped in the bit about nuclear at the end as an example of how fungi could be used to potentially clean up radiation if cities were still to be powered by nuclear, but am not advocating for nuclear! Personally, I think a future based around community owned renewable energy is the best way forwards. Sorry if that was miscommunicated.

[@Chaideu]

Nuclear energy is the cleanest most renewable energy source out there , a future without fossil fuels is a pipe dream without nuclear

[@sudd3660]

@@Chaideu just because nuclear is the most clean energy does not mean its clean enough to be sustainable, that is the same a saying electric cars is sustainable of its 30% less pollution or the cities are less polluted because of it. all the nuclear waste is waste for millenniums, and all the things we use that energy for is also creating pollution and consumerism.

[@Chaideu]

@sudd3660 nuclear energy produces the least amount of co2 , it's much cleaner than Wind and geothermal and is up there with solar. The nuclear waste produced by nuclear energy isn't magic , there is trillions of ton of uranium beneath your feet in the earth , ee can easily store it in a pit that isn't in a tectonically active area , also the energy used by nuclear can be used for good and for bad , that isn't inherent to the energy, same with any renewable

[@noneofyourbusiness4133]

@@sudd3660I’m so so sorry, but renewables without nuclear power is utmost folley. The fact you can set up nuclear energy anywhere no matter environmental conditions can never be ignored.

[@sudd3660]

@@noneofyourbusiness4133 i never said renewables, you need to look at what is sustainable. and any benefit any tech has is not worth it if the drawbacks are too large. so please do not ignore my comment about the drawbacks of nuclear. there are more also. but we all should now that by now and not think we can get educated thru KZbin comment section. i can not waste my time on phone fiddlers on the internet. we need to get stuff done, not trying to keep our current lifestyle as they are.

[@TheQuietPartisLoud]

My students and I once grew Oyster mushrooms using a substrate made from the inedible leafy parts of plants from a previous classroom experiment, and it was a really fun activity. It's so interesting to see how well and quickly they would grow just from a mix of old organic matter, and some water misting. I would LOVE a world where we put as much work into selectively breeding useful breeds of shroom as we do with plants. All these possible forms of Mycofabrication could be bolstered by raising shrooms for Material Science, which is already happening, I just hope it keeps developing as a field!

[@solarpunkalana]

That's so cool! Yes here's to more shrooms 🥂🍄

[@willowmcclelland68]

CRAZY timing given mycelium leather replacements has recently become a hyperfixation (or perhaps, a hyphafixation)

[@totalCoolerUsername]

I had to laugh so hard bout this pun; what's wrong with me? 😂

[@DownTheStream]

Really enjoyed reading Entangled Life so its great to see more people exposed to the exciting world of mycology! Here's to a shroom-powered solarpunk future!

[@ubik5453]

@@DownTheStream Unless the Last of Us happens to us

[@DownTheStream]

@ubik5453 Honestly Cordyceps sounds better than capitalism at this point!

[@solarpunkalana]

Entangled Life is great!

[@ubik5453]

Oh my God! She's turn to FungiAlana! 🍄

[@solarpunkalana]

🍄🍄🍄

[@Solstice261]

Really got into mycology recently, foraging mushrooms is just a great way to pay attention to nature, I never noticed there were so many where I lived, there is a young willow stand which floods sometimes and all the rotting leaves have the cutest vibrissea growing on them, they are super important and way to often we are blind to them but a forest without mushrooms is really no different from a cereal field

[@jay.p.w]

Im using your videos for my college project on solarpunk architecture, thank you SO much for your work❤ :)))

[@lgnoramaLama]

It was a Mushroom jumpscare of the good kind 10/10 That already made me really happy 😆👍

[@solarpunkalana]

:)

[@PaulCoxC]

Great video, and 10/10 for the hat 👌🏻

[@solarpunkalana]

Thanks!

[@WillDa713]

i like your optimism

[@milkydoesstuff1828]

Mushrooms are like. Super cool

[@ChielOnYoutube]

Great hat and a great video again! I'm in the process of turning my living room into a jungle, but I had up to now only really considered Plantae and Animalia--I added Steinernema feltiae (miniscule roundworms) to my plants to eat the Sciara analis (tiny flying things). You've inspired explore the options for adding Fungi too.

[@solarpunkalana]

Awesome!

[@gphr5987]

What a great video holistically. Research presentation everything. Well done !

[@solarpunkalana]

Thank you!

[@matthewepperson1149]

Loved all of this video, but i am left wanting on the spritual side of mushrooms/psilocybin. Maybe another video to go deeper there? I can only imagine that more psychotropic influence (if responsibly used) would open up more people's thinking about the power of mushrooms in the ways you elucidate, Alana. What's most interesting to me about tripping, i think, is its similarities to deep meditation states in the brain. i am no scientist but i have heard that the "default mode network" of the brain (strangely labeled) which is so responsible for our sense of atomization/separateness is attentuated by magic mushrooms. Thus mystic truths like the oneness of all beings become far easier for the rest of us to grasp, perhaps without so much discipline. It's weird to talk about shortcuts to enlightenment given the capitalistic world you so rightly point out in each video, and yet i think giving ourselves a "leg up" (spore up?) in this regard could be quite welcome. Especially if we design protocols of meditation that complement magic mushroom intake.

[@TheFabledSCP7000]

5:16 Myxomycetes already do it faster, and cooler Myxomycetes are cool too

[@objectreborn.artsewing]

I'm one minute in and wanted to say, this video is beautifully edited. Cheers, love

[@solarpunkalana]

Thank you!

[@FadedHeroFound]

Nappy Tek? Not seen that one on the shroom forums (9:00)

[@tripleb94]

there are certain type of fungi that respond well and grow with radiation normally found on a space station! So it's possible we can have an additional sealant layer of this fungi on space ships that might be self repairing. If it gets punctured by space debris, it will eat the solar radiation to fill the gap perhaps? could be another solar punk application. :)

[@solarpunkalana]

That sounds super cool!

[@FadedHeroFound]

Have you read 'mycelium running' by Paul Stamets?

[@ashenCombatant]

Not sure the details, but I remember once hearing that people were looking at using fungi bricks in the terraforming of mars, since a few spores is light so cheap to send to space. Just wish I could remember where I saw it

[@J_GamerSP]

I love fungi. They are so weird and kinda scary. I imagine they can serve their part inside the computers of tommorow as well, maybe they'll be the basis for the first artificial brain.

[@merbst]

I'm now subscribed. Nice hat!

[@solarpunkalana]

Thanks!

[@tylerwhorff7143]

This is crazy because I've heard of all those uses of fungi. I must be really tapped into the **network** on sustainable tech

[@tylerwhorff7143]

Also I've watched Scavenger's Reign. The gore and body horror was a lot but the world building was great

[@solarpunkalana]

It was such a great show! So sad season 2 has been cancelled :(

[@claudiaborges8406]

I’m telling you man, hemp and shrooms are the future! Unless we end up with so much of it around it starts to act as a plague (like all the cows we have or other animals that throw the balance of the ecosystems off)

[@bosstuna8115]

We have consensus, just not enough people willing to do the work it takes for this cause...

[@annforster733]

as an ethnomycologist i approve

[@Dr.Yalex.]

0:23 it’s not just that IT is here to stay - “fun guy”❤ is the net that holds our planet together. Life on this planet would not be possible without the fungi. Try dictating fungi …😂

[@thekaxmax]

Mars 'Puffballs' with no holes to puff from aren't puffballs. And they wouldn't survive in the surface

[@samuele3775]

nausicaa valley of the Wind 🍄

[@TripleRoux]

Anyone have any book recs revolving around shroomy speculative fiction?

[@matthewepperson1149]

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

[@TripleRoux]

@@matthewepperson1149 Yes, that was a good one!

[@DeRien8]

Fungi also do a good job of synthesizing pharmaceuticals. After all, excreting enzymes is how they survive

[@solarpunkalana]

Cool!

[@ratlinggull2223]

humongus fungus among us

[@vampboy7]

I think you're the future. We all are. Your research creates vast questions that need answers. We all have faults but that comes with creation.

[@Scriven42]

I can't wait for the fungal communication network to be figured out and tapped into! Everyone has a communication device they connect to the ground close to where they are, and whenever someone reaches out for them the network finds them. FungiPhone? Phongi?

[@paulohenriquearaujofaria7306]

How about HPPD?

[@TheQuietPartisLoud]

Mycology-pilled decompositionmaxxing

[@nathanmcfarland3568]

This doesn't seem like the kind of thing a person whose brain has been taken over by a mycelial network would make, i trust this fun guy

[@vampboy7]

I think you're the future. We all are. Your research vast questions that need answers. We all have faults but that comes with creation.

[@terry.1428]

Who else watching this while tripping

[@paulohenriquearaujofaria7306]

Some of us have HPPD

[@prophecyrat2965]

Do you belive in magic?