Why even mess around with something like that?

[mrk]

Anyone know it's real name so I can actually read something intelligent about it rather than the pansexual BS they are using on this.

Yes, here https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/33089893

 

[PapaLazaru]

Know about slime mould for years, it cartainly is an oddity

 

[Thekwango]

Anyone know it's real name so I can actually read something intelligent about it rather than the pansexual BS they are using on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physarum_polycephalum

 

[V F]

Know about slime mould for years, it cartainly is an oddity

If only it was oily black.

 

[Dis86]

Can somebody explain the 720 sexes part?

Which we have, as standard, 2 chromosomal states to determine our sex, it has multiple combinations. Approximately 720.

 

[2004typer]

Has anyone seen the film "Life" - organisms like this remind me of the creature in this.

 

[sideways14a]

What happens if it breaks out into the wild and becomes president of the united states?

 

[Nasher]

Now every nutter on social media is going to think it also applies to them.

 

[Thekwango]

Now every nutter on social media is going to think it also applies to them.

Well to be fair most of them are brainless, amoebic oddities that science struggles to classify or understand. Much like this ‘mould’

 

[Drumroll]

No brain but 720 sexes, sounds like the youth of today.

 

[Yadda]

Has anyone asked the important question yet: does it taste good in a sandwich?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Which we have, as standard, 2 chromosomal states to determine our sex, it has multiple combinations. Approximately 720.

If there's only 2 how do you get to 720?

 

[Dis86]

If there's only 2 how do you get to 720?

Eh? We have 2. It has something like 16.

 

[Yadda]

What happens if it breaks out into the wild and becomes president of the united states?

It would explain the hair situation.

 

[FoxEye]

What happens if it breaks out into the wild and becomes president of the united states?

Right now I don't think we'd notice a difference.

 

[morbid42]

I once grew something similar as a teenager in a half empy bottle of coke that must have been under my bed for 2 years

 

[Angilion]

Anyone else thinking of Dungeons and Dragons?

 

[Gerard]

720 sexes my ********.

 

[V F]

I once grew something similar as a teenager in a half empy bottle of coke that must have been under my bed for 2 years

I'm truly scared.

 

[Participant]

Anyone else thinking of Dungeons and Dragons?

Oh man the nostalgia <3