Pilobolus: Ultra-High-Speed Fungus Spore Discharge
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Uploaded by hayleyscomet on Sep 17, 2008
The fungus Pilobolus fires off its sporangiophore using a water cannon or "squirt gun," reaching accelerations that are among the fastest in nature.
Here we present a montage of high-speed video clips showing sporangiophore discharge in the fungus Pilobolus kleinii. The videos were obtained at camera frame rates of up to 250,000 fps. Each discharge is completed in less than 0.25 milliseconds; an eye blink takes 100 milliseconds, or 400 times longer! The music is Verdi's Anvil Chorus.
For more information: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003237
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ALL HAIL COMRADE FUNGUS!
3 years ago 14
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XD
Truth is ten times stranger than fiction!
3 years ago 4
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1:00 there's the most perfect launch that i've ever seen
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how fast can it go?
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I think It came.
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THIS PLACE ABOUT TO BLO-O-O-O-O-O-OW-OW!!
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I can jump so fast I defy gravity (albeit momentarily) lol.
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Hello fellow uni people!
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....why was this in my "recommended for you" videos!? lol
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found the link to this vid on page 28 of Answers Magazine April-June 2010 issue.
Really spectacular. You botanists are awesome.
1 year ago 3
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the needles on the stingers of a kind of jelly fish are really the fastest things in nature. they are so fast they defy gravity 10x.... lol i was shocked but discovery channel don't lie
caguppy123 2 years ago
I don't know about jellyfish stingers, but there are a few different ways to measure "speed." For the launch of fungal spores like these, the measure of acceleration is faster than anything previously recorded.
hayleyscomet 2 years ago
Why did you put quotation marks on "speed".
danielodors 2 years ago
To emphasize that there are many ways to define it. You can look at strict velocity (distance per time), or acceleration (as we did here). You can look at speed on land or in the air or underwater. That is why you sometimes hear of multiple organisms holding the title of "fastest thing in nature"--because it depends on what specifically you are looking at.
hayleyscomet 2 years ago