Fungi break acceleration record to escape dung

Read more: http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14747?DCMP=youtube

Researchers have found that fungi can shoot their spores with the fastest acceleration ever seen in the living world.

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[kurtu5]

Scaling laws.

10 gees kills an elephant. 10 gees is hard on a human. 10 gees on a mouse is merely annoying. 10 gees on an ant, unnoticed....

Huge acceleration at the cellular level are easy to bear and cause.

[ConstantC4]

so what was the acceleration?

[jlauralee]

Horrifying and fascinating at the same time.

[14Mentalist]

fast shit thats quicker then me having the squitts

[nunchukgrl2]

her voice is annoying. (someone's reply --> your voice is annnoying)

[cacaplops]

HOLY SHIT...

[msbfd]

Just another thing to make a horror movie about the giant version - evil mushrooms that shoot their spores right through your body like a giant jet injector...

[fuunguus]

180,000 g.

[meusicalentall27]

You would have to derive a fomula for a. Either dv/dt or a=F/m

[Haewatein]

wow, the narrator of this clip is really awesome. She should get an Oscar FOR BEING THE FUCKING WORST SPEAKER EVER.

In-fucking-credible, what retards think nowadays that they are talented...

[violabrain]

We captured videos of S. stellatus as well. I still think that Pilobolus sp. is cooler to see in slo mo.