After I finished today’s grading, I whipped up a little video. Why? Because I could. And because Rhawn Gabriel Joseph is up to mischief again. He’s claiming to have found mushrooms on Venus and Mars!
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Excellent video. A good old-fashioned debunking.
Sounds like the guy was on mushrooms when he came up with the idea of “mushrooms on Mars/Venus”.
Richard Hoagland? Now that’s a blast from the past. I think I stopped looking when he went to Facebook many moons ago, but I guess he’s still going with his fourth rate bullshit. I mean, when you’re discussing conspiracy theories like “Was 9/11 Only An Eerie Foreshadowing of a Global Covid-19?” you know you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Apparently, he “delivered” a “briefing” on “Off-World Image Anomalies” through “back channels to the White House” a couple of years ago. Some things never change.
Magic Martian Mushrooms? Mushroom people?
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1z49dk
I am aware of two maladies that came from space.
One was a horrific and tragic loss of three cosmonauts to decompression and vacuum exposure.
The other, severe dyspepsia, secondary to it clouding up when trying to observe rare astronomic phenomena and every other damned telescope on the planet is booked to look elsewhere.
More exciting and more real: Newly discovered ‘glitter worms’ dance and fight one another underwater
Hi PZ,
Nice video and production values. If you have a moment, could you let me know what microphone you use?
Vengeful ButterfliesPanspermia Mafia is my new socially-distanced band name.C’mon! My wood-fired pizza oven goes to 900°F, and I put mushrooms on my pizzas all the time. Very tasty!
Reginald Selkirk, thank you for sharing those glitter worms!
I use a Yeti. I’m still tinkering with getting the adjustments set correctly.
Maybe it’s time to reread the Mushroom Planet books…
Mushrooms at the temperature and pressure that prevails on the surface of Venus wouldn’t be mushrooms. If one introduced mushrooms to those conditions they would almost instantaneously produce a fair utility for charcoal artists…if they didn’t first burst to smithereens because of their moisture content.
Real question is: Are they fun and where can we get some?
(Kids! Don’t do drugs. Drugs are bad. Umkay?)