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Absolutely stunning pictures of 'slime mold'

englishrussia.com — Who knew that slime mold could be so beautiful? This Russian guy is fond of making photos of the ’slime molds’ - micro mushrooms that grow on the plants.

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 27, 2008

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  • Kidsturk, on 10/27/2008, -2/+193Slime molds are crazy awesome.
    This one solved a maze:

    http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s189608 ...

  • inactive, on 10/27/2008, -5/+80I collect spores, molds, and fungus.
  • Soval, on 10/27/2008, -11/+82I, for one, welcome our new slime mold overlords.
  • wastelander, on 10/27/2008, -1/+57So did I, until my girlfriend made me clean the fridge.
  • haikuFU, on 10/27/2008, -1/+45I bet you're a funguy
  • Dalhectar, on 10/27/2008, -1/+36They remind me of Planet Earth, which had some awesome time lapse animations of molds in their rain forest episode. In 1080i glory.
  • Utopian, on 10/27/2008, -0/+32If it was really clever it would have climbed over the walls.
  • LongShlong, on 10/27/2008, -4/+34I'm hungry!
  • slapded, on 10/27/2008, -1/+24In 2006 you would get a digg. Today sir, I must do the opposite. I am sorry.
  • sockpuppets, on 10/27/2008, -0/+18Or ordered takeout.
  • fudgebrown, on 10/27/2008, -4/+21Looks like Stimpy's magic nose gobblins.
  • inactive, on 10/27/2008, -9/+25That's what she said.
  • inactive, on 10/27/2008, -0/+14It's from Ghostbusters?
  • bicyclethief, on 10/27/2008, -5/+19Luckily, I have a +3 sling shot.
  • BuddyDoQ, on 10/27/2008, -1/+14How sad was it that I was looking through the comments for this very line, fully prepared to enter it had it failed to appear.
  • inactive, on 10/27/2008, -2/+15Whoa, slime mold is more intelligent than Sarah Palin.
  • turnipradish, on 10/27/2008, -2/+14I dugg this comment not knowing it was from ghostbusters until I googled it. I just thought this guy was cool for collecting fungus and stuff.
  • skabyss, on 10/27/2008, -3/+15OH SHI-
  • inactive, on 10/27/2008, -2/+13I am full of fail and readily admit it.
  • Grazfather, on 10/27/2008, -0/+10Makes me think of nethack.
  • Grazfather, on 10/27/2008, -1/+11It changes as it ages
  • ncc74656m, on 10/27/2008, -6/+16"I collect spores, molds, and fungus." - Egon
  • zantos420, on 10/27/2008, -1/+10yeah trip out right into a coma
  • muddhb, on 10/27/2008, -0/+9I see the virgin mary!!
  • specialK16, on 10/27/2008, -2/+9This is beautiful and very cool, but damn you digg, I was enjoying my breakfast.
  • mystafreaze, on 10/27/2008, -1/+8sporeggar?
  • theadvinci, on 10/27/2008, -0/+7Why's there one mold in two different colors?
  • MrSquirrel, on 10/27/2008, -0/+7Dugg, just for being about slime mold. How can you not love slime mold?

  • Kromel, on 10/27/2008, -1/+8It took me a moment to figure out why you did that... Then I remembered the good 'ol days of true gaming!
  • AaronH, on 10/27/2008, -1/+7It's a "Funguy" to be with?...
  • solecize, on 10/27/2008, -0/+6My that was yummy slime mold!
  • PRlME, on 10/27/2008, -1/+7P?
  • inactive, on 10/27/2008, -1/+7More like in 1985...
  • sudasana, on 10/27/2008, -2/+8Plus they're worth like 250 nutrition points, so that's good.
  • pe5t1lence, on 10/27/2008, -6/+12Ok, I attack the slime mold with my dual wielded 0-ac shields. And then I cast flare!
  • lazyslacker, on 10/27/2008, -0/+5y'know, it really does.
  • etx313, on 10/27/2008, -0/+5Looks like easy Cheeze!
  • bjorna, on 10/27/2008, -2/+7T?
  • drgmdp, on 10/27/2008, -0/+5well i am the slime from your video
    oozin' along on your livin room floor
  • zantos420, on 10/27/2008, -8/+13fungi*
  • inactive, on 10/27/2008, -3/+7looks like a level on world of goo.

  • Zizhou, on 10/27/2008, -0/+4I just renamed them all "delicious cake" and never had to deal with disturbing mental images of chowing down on these things to ward off starvation.
  • internalprime8, on 10/27/2008, -0/+4They had a cool section for these on Planet Earth. I'm now scared to death of the jungle.
  • LemonChicken, on 10/27/2008, -0/+4"Somebody blows their nose and you wanna keep it?"
  • fatlip, on 10/27/2008, -2/+6that's funny, you don't look like pretzels
  • bmxsara, on 10/27/2008, -0/+4"Back off man I'm a scientist!"
  • fredtehcat, on 10/28/2008, -0/+4ITAKE MUSHROOM?
  • feignNU, on 10/27/2008, -0/+4Yeah, they are pretty cool. Anyone interested should check out the book "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" (http://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Connected-Brains-C ...

    The crazy thing about them is, those organisms you just looked at pictures of are in fact "meta-organisms". Each of them is a collection of single-celled organisms working together to bring about the higher-order structure you see. The interesting thing is that they do this without a "commander" of any kind. The book is about how this kind of high-level behavior can "emerge" from complex systems even though there's no one calling the shots. Quite interesting.
  • PataGoRica, on 10/27/2008, -3/+7gross...but I can't look away.
  • MrsRodted, on 10/27/2008, -0/+4Time to see a doctor dude
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