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RE: Slime Mold Plasmodium - Likely Lycogala
That is awesome. I heard they used an experiment with slime mold in China to map out more efficient subway systems.
That is awesome. I heard they used an experiment with slime mold in China to map out more efficient subway systems.
Someone sure did - using bits of nutrition and plasmodium they found that Plasmodium naturally developed the most efficient routes to as yet undiscovered nutrition sources, which turned out to mimic the Tokyo subway system layout quite well.
At some point I hope to get some time lapse of this stuff in myself. So far I've only caught the less exciting non-plasmodial development on time lapse in this brief video
(This is my story account fyi)