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You don't have to heat them up as hot as you would something you do pressure canning because bacterial spores can't grow in the acid.
First, a burial suit infused with mushroom spores, the Mushroom Death Suit.
It's covered with a crocheted netting that is embedded with mushroom spores.
I'm also making a decompiculture kit, a cocktail of capsules that contain Infinity Mushroom spores and other elements that speed decomposition and toxin remediation.
What they do is they produce spores, millions of spores on the outside of the butterfly that are shown as little specks in between the scales of the butterfly.
Experimental blends of concrete include these bacterial or fungal spores alongside nutrients in their concrete mix, where they could lie dormant for hundreds of years.
When cracks finally appear and water trickles into the concrete, the spores germinate, grow, and consume the nutrient soup that surrounds them, modifying their local environment to create the perfect conditions for calcium carbonate to grow.
When the cracks seal, the bacteria or fungi will make spores and go dormant once more— ready to start a new cycle of self-healing when cracks form again.
But, these spores have huge potential to make concrete more resilient and long-lasting— which could drastically reduce the financial and environmental cost of concrete production.
And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground.
They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.
I actually chased the mycelium, when it stopped producing spores.
But the insects aren't stupid, and they would avoid the spores when they came close, and so I morphed the cultures into a non-sporulating form.
And I got my daughter's Barbie doll dish, I put it right where a bunch of carpenter ants were making debris fields, every day, in my house, and the ants were attracted to the mycelium, because there's no spores.
Now after sporulation, the spores repel.
You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores.
The fundamental forms of ferns followed, to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.
On land, plants became trees, growing massive or spreading their spores only once before dying.
London, 1928: a group of mold spores surf a breeze through a lab.
An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores.
Bacterial spores are thought now by scientists to exist as individual cells that are alive, but in suspended animation for as long as 250 million years.
This budget-starved Italian action/sci-fi hybrid features David Warbeck as a Miami reporter who is chosen by the ghosts of the people of Atlantis (!) to stop an evil businessman (Academy Award nominee John Ireland) from using a telepathic fetus grown using spores from an asteroid to rule the world.
The fungus then reproduces by dropping its spores all over the forest floor, to infect more ants below.
These parasites make their hosts seek a higher elevation, which expands the reach of their infectious spores or particles.