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Study reveals hidden talent of mushrooms: They can make it rain
Fox News ^ | October 29, 2015 | Michael Harthorne

Posted on 10/30/2015 12:40:13 PM PDT by sparklite2

Discovery reports researchers documented a previously unknown system in which rain makes mushrooms grow, mushrooms release spores into the atmosphere, and those spores create moisture droplets that could lead to rain.

“We can watch big water droplets grow as vapor condenses on (the mushroom spore’s) surface,” study author Nicholas Money tells Discovery. “Nothing else works like this in nature.” This process could be influencing climate patterns around the world, especially in fungus-heavy tropical forests like the Amazon, Gizmodo reports.

According to Gizmodo, a single mushroom can "catapult" up to 30,000 spores per second at speeds of up to 4mph. And it's been estimated mushrooms release 50 million tons of spores into the atmosphere ever year.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: amazon; drought; epa; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; popefrancis; romancatholicism; sahara; water
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To: tet68

There are some very interesting mushrooms out there.


21 posted on 10/30/2015 4:17:04 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
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To: Gator113

Yes, yes there are.


22 posted on 10/30/2015 4:17:59 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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To: BitWielder1

I’ll ask Alice. I think she’ll know.


23 posted on 10/30/2015 5:01:38 PM PDT by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: sparklite2

This is like the chicken and the egg.

No rain no mushrooms. Heavy rain and mushrooms pop up everywhere.


24 posted on 10/30/2015 7:04:50 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

And they pop up so damned fast!
You should be able to see them grow.


25 posted on 10/30/2015 7:06:33 PM PDT by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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Matango / Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ysl4k_matango-attack-of-the-mushroom-people-1963_shortfilms

The Who — Love reign over me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDbAtWpoA6k


26 posted on 10/31/2015 12:12:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: piytar; SunkenCiv; sparklite2; tet68; BitWielder1; All

Dust has been forever, but if mushroom spoors are an effective enhancer, then they should try some of the same stuff they did with Silver Iodide. Try seeding some potential rain clouds with spoors and see what happens.


27 posted on 10/31/2015 3:13:08 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

The African Source Of The Amazon’s Fertilizer
Science News Magazine | 11-18-2006 | Sid Perkins
Posted on 11/18/2006, 7:22:58 PM by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1740969/posts


28 posted on 10/31/2015 6:22:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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