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Uploaded by on Sep 16, 2008

High-speed video of a fungus releasing spores at 180,000 g--the biggest acceleration ever recorded in nature. Courtesy of Nick Money, Miami University, Ohio. For more information: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003237

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  • If only you could engineer Psilocybe Cubensis to use this method of delivery . . . there'd be a whole lot more forests in the world instead of battlefields : )

  • There's a fungus amoung us.

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  • Fungi money shots

  • Bah! Nothing special. Chuck Norris can shoot out his sperm, breaking over 9000 concrete walls and penetrate a woman's ovum.

  • It came.

  • HAHA! I went to look up stuff to learn more about fungus...Who know they could be musical!!!

  • Should have used the climax of the 1812 Overture, with spore ejections timed to the cannon shots. Actually, maybe I should download the video and add the alternative soundtrack myself...

  • I bet I could beat that record if I starved myself of ejaculation for like 50 years.

  • i can.

  • lol im glad thats not big it would probly hurt if it was big and it thit nu

  • IT'S A FIRIN' IT'S LAZ0RZ!!!!

  • nice camera 250,000 fps :P

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