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Study reveals hidden talent of mushrooms: They can make it rain
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| October 29, 2015
| Michael Harthorne
Posted on 10/30/2015 12:40:13 PM PDT by sparklite2
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I'll have a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms, hold the rain.
To: sparklite2
I thought it was fine dust from space that seeded the rain droplets.
It must have rained on this planet long before there were mushrooms.
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posted on
10/30/2015 12:43:45 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: sparklite2
Master Shake - uh, I mean The Drizzle - needs to hear about this so he can increase his crime-fighting powers.
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
10/30/2015 12:47:50 PM PDT
by
niteowl77
("The truth is that this thing is not worth fixing up anymore.")
To: sparklite2
This is actually well known. But still pretty cool!
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posted on
10/30/2015 1:06:02 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: BitWielder1
It’s actually any dust and/or spores and/or pollen sufficiently high in the atmosphere. In addition, if a cosmic ray strikes the dust/spores/pollen, they pick up a charge that attracts water vapor and help form clouds/rain. Hence, when the sun’s magnetosphere is quiet (see Maunder Minimum and current solar activity), we get more rain, cooling, and NASTY winters.
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posted on
10/30/2015 1:09:04 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: piytar
PS That is a very short summary of the interactions involved. It’s a bit more complicated, but the underlying principles are known. “Scientists” pushing AGW most likely (a) are ignorant of these interactions or (b) are likely ignoring them to keep the grant money flowing.
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posted on
10/30/2015 1:11:16 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: sparklite2
When this was happening with regular mushrooms, it was fine, and the environment remained in balance.
But these new rain-making ‘Spore Utility Mushrooms’ are a major contributor to global wetting...
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posted on
10/30/2015 1:13:17 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: piytar
How can this make any more rain, isn't it limited to the amount of moisture in the atmosphere?
I would have guessed more dust would cause more but smaller drops, less dust fewer but larger drops.
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posted on
10/30/2015 1:13:17 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: sparklite2
If that were true it would be raining over California all the time.
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posted on
10/30/2015 1:15:27 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: sparklite2
Purple Rain?
Cool, man...
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posted on
10/30/2015 1:41:38 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: BitWielder1
I’ve read that there are spores in space.
To: sparklite2
Possible desert reclamation process?
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posted on
10/30/2015 2:04:53 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(w)
To: sparklite2
In other words, the Climate Priests have NO IDEA how our biosphere and climate work together, and all their predictions are just so much... hot air.
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posted on
10/30/2015 2:28:53 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks sparklite2.
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posted on
10/30/2015 3:32:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: sparklite2
What came first, the rain or the mushroom?
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posted on
10/30/2015 3:59:13 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
To: sparklite2
So if you see a lib dying of thirst, give him a mushroom.
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posted on
10/30/2015 4:01:43 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
To: Gator113
Heh. At least he’ll die happy.
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posted on
10/30/2015 4:02:27 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
To: Carthego delenda est
I’ve read that there are spores in space. Panspermia! One of my favorite words.
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posted on
10/30/2015 4:03:41 PM PDT
by
To Hell With Poverty
(All freedom must be transported in bottles of 3 oz or less. - Freeper relictele)
To: sparklite2
Indeed. Tonight we are going to BBQ steak and stuffed mushrooms.
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posted on
10/30/2015 4:04:48 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
To: Gator113
Dhrumbas, big landslide mushrooms!
Fantastic colors, FANTASTIC COLORS!!!
The little mushroom comes of itself...
Thank god for Gordon Wasson’s wife.
She was Russian and loved mushrooms, her love of fungi
and Gordon’s instinctual disgust of them caused him
to examine why some cultures were pro or con.
His interest then centered on Teonanacatl, the “food of the
gods”, in central American and also the Soma of the Vedas.
Very facinating.
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posted on
10/30/2015 4:09:00 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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