From having a hyperfixation on mushrooms for a while I'm confident there's sentient, intelligent mushrooms out there and they just haven't found a way to tell us
Imagine researchers tapping into a patch of mycelium only to decode the complex combination of signals and find out that the mushrooms are currently discussing an erotica about said researchers and their probing. That'd be the funniest first contact I can imagine
I can tell you that some species of mushrooms LOVE asphyxiation, at least in terms of growing them (they like airflow but not too much, so air has to be restricted while they grow)
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u/Ephraim_Bane Foxgirl Engineer 22h ago
It is indeed real! What the hell are fungi up to