Comments on: Moss That Makes Mushroom Clouds: A Plant Explodes to Spread Its Spores http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/22/moss-that-makes-mushroom-clouds-a-plant-explodes-to-spread-its-spores/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/22/moss-that-makes-mushroom-clouds-a-plant-explodes-to-spread-its-spores/comment-page-1/#comment-222937 nick Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:19:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17911#comment-222937 2 things: 1) i found this weird fungal growth in my backyard that resembled the tip of a minaret placed on the ground. When I poked it, I found that it was hollow and puffed out spores. I unfortunately didn't remember to check if it made a mushroom cloud-type shape. 2) if they shot 100,000 frames per second, you'd think they could have slowed down the eruption for the video a little more so we can see it better. It's a 13 second video and the final 10 seconds show the trailing end of the cloud after it's already off screen. I was really hoping for one of those super-slo-mo type vids where you can really see it roiling and boiling. Then again, maybe it just shoots out that fast. 2 things: 1) i found this weird fungal growth in my backyard that resembled the tip of a minaret placed on the ground. When I poked it, I found that it was hollow and puffed out spores. I unfortunately didn’t remember to check if it made a mushroom cloud-type shape.

2) if they shot 100,000 frames per second, you’d think they could have slowed down the eruption for the video a little more so we can see it better. It’s a 13 second video and the final 10 seconds show the trailing end of the cloud after it’s already off screen. I was really hoping for one of those super-slo-mo type vids where you can really see it roiling and boiling.

Then again, maybe it just shoots out that fast.

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