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Uploaded on Sep 17, 2008

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

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  • kurtu5

    kurtu5 4 years ago

    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.

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  • ConstantC4

    ConstantC4 3 years ago

    so what was the acceleration?

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  • Overactiveeyeball

    Overactiveeyeball 11 months ago

    Dude....it's like fungicide....

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  • nanogeekpro2

    nanogeekpro2 1 year ago

    20,000 G's is the acceleration, (ballpark figure i imagine)

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  • jlauralee

    jlauralee 1 year ago

    Horrifying and fascinating at the same time.

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  • Guilio McEwan

    Guilio McEwan 1 year ago

    fast shit thats quicker then me having the squitts

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  • nunchukgrl2

    nunchukgrl2 2 years ago

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

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  • Gino Buonavoglia

    Gino Buonavoglia 2 years ago

    HOLY SHIT...

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  • msbfd

    msbfd 3 years ago

    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...

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  • fuunguus

    fuunguus 3 years ago

    180,000 g.

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  • meusicalentall27

    meusicalentall27 3 years ago

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

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