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Attention Mathemeticians: This Only Looks Like the 405 Freeway
Scientific Computing ^
| Thu, 07/18/2013 - 9:15am
| UCLA
Posted on 07/22/2013 10:29:45 AM PDT by null and void
No, those are not cars darting along a busy highway. The glowing specks you're seeing in this video (http://bit.ly/110LTfm) are millions of nuclei flowing through the tube-like filaments, or hyphae, of a single fungus cell.
The video was produced as part of a study by UCLA mathematician Marcus Roper's research group that was the first to measure and explain this dynamic movement of nuclei in the cells of a fungus.
"It's complex, beautiful and so dynamic," said Roper, an assistant professor of mathematics and the lead author of two new studies that cast light on how cells ingeniously adapt to physical challenges.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificcomputing.com ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: fungi; zombies
Long article
Off topic, I've been thinking about the zombie virus, and have come to the conclusion that it isn't a virus, or a bacteria.
Both viruses and bacteria die when the host dies. A fungus does not.
Both viruses and bacteria require a circulatory system to provide a flow of nutrients and waste disposal. Fungi have their own circulatory system, a heart shot wouldn't bother them, they need no central pump.
A body taken over by a mycellium network would be relatively immune to damage, no part depends on any other critical part to survive, except the fruiting body, in the brain case, which sheds spores though the oral cavity.
Ant with brain eating fungal infection. Note the death grip bite...
To: null and void
I saw that movie but I can’t remember the name of it.
They were trapped in a gas station as dead bodies were animated by the creeping crud.
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posted on
07/22/2013 10:32:41 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
07/22/2013 10:34:30 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: cripplecreek
Although they never called it a fungus...
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posted on
07/22/2013 10:37:53 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/22/2013 10:38:25 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: null and void
They never called it a fungus but I got that impression.
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posted on
07/22/2013 10:40:27 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: null and void
"One of those ants bit me."
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posted on
07/22/2013 10:45:14 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: null and void
Your idea actually was made into a video game called “Last of Us”. The game came out in early June of this year. It is really an interesting story.
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posted on
07/22/2013 10:53:27 AM PDT
by
HOYA97
(twitter @hoya97)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
07/22/2013 10:59:21 AM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
(Palin was right (again)!)
To: HOYA97
*sigh* Beaten to the punch yet again.
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posted on
07/22/2013 11:21:00 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: null and void
Don’t feel bad. Most on FR don’t know how great a story the “Last of Us” is. It may be one of the best games I have ever played.
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posted on
07/22/2013 11:43:40 AM PDT
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HOYA97
(twitter @hoya97)
To: null and void
"It's complex, beautiful and so dynamic," said Roper...And it all happened by chance... < \sarcasm>
To: eCSMaster
Love Jill Wagner. She had me considering actually purchasing a Mercury a few years back.
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posted on
07/22/2013 12:35:14 PM PDT
by
Palmetto
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