This is how it starts. First we start using fungi as sensors for our buildings, and then in a few thousand years, mankind is fighting for survival against the uprising of the Mushroom People.
He talked about the biggest living organisms without once mentioning the Great Barrier Reef. I know that's not one organism but I expected that to be passed off as some sort of single thing.
@@andredeketeleastutecomplex yeah but we can't force an update on forests to fix vulnerabilities. There probably a joke with "can't see the forest through the trees" and incorporate windows into that. Idk, Im all out of steam for now.
Well im no scientist but i think the reason its so big is that it can divert the resources from ones that are dying so if one gets infected it completely cuts off nutrients and that tree dies and the rest stay uninfected
"aww this bread is stale and fungi are growing out of it :(" *random scientist comes in and stabs the bread with a cable* "the temperature of the room is 25°C"
3:28 this tree is peak life. It's completed the game. 100%. All achievements unlocked. All cheats discovered. All locations explored. All companions romanced. You couldn't even begin to close in on the peak performance of this god emperor tree.
That was way more interesting than I was ready for. I was like "how's he going to turn this one word answer question into a 15 minute video?" Expecting that it would be structured like the biggest organism isn't a whale it's a tree, roll credits lol.
You have made many interesting videos over the years the years but this one must be one of your best so far!! Thank you so much for this very fascinating video!
@@FearsomeTiger12 the video creator makes the raw footage of the video the edited video is first made by the editor and in the case a person doesn’t have a editor and edits the video themselves they are the first one to see the video I don’t wanna argue have a great day :)
I see in the grocery store "organic mushrooms." Commercially, mushrooms grow in manure. Say the manure comes from cows. That means that the cows eat organic grass or organic cow feed. That means the mushrooms grow on organic s***.
@@Redd_Nebula you do know people get poo transplants and that’s because the microbiology of shit isn’t always good or working normal. Just like soil can be depleted of micro diversity life
love your work mate .. BUT .. i recently was reading about a termite colony in Brazil - REF: Researchers have discovered a gigantic complex of 200 million termite mounds in northeastern Brazil, which covers an area about the size of Great Britain. and are a single colony. termites are classed as a superorganism. so this would possibly be THE BIGGEST known organism.. you all should look into this, its pretty amazing.. out of the very few of the mounds they have studied the oldest is around 4000 years old ..And they they have studied only a hand full . and just to keep with the Egyptian measuring system . they estimate the amount of dirt the termites have excavated is equivalent to 4,000 Great Pyramids of Giza.
You inspire me Thoughty2. I’ve watched about 80% of your videos now and I am obsessed. You always get my mind rolling especially with your scientific videos from biology to physics. Expands my mind dramatically and my ability to better analyze our future. Thank you!!
The term: "Its parts work together for the benefit of the integrated whole, with high cooperation and low conflict" seems somewhat flawed if a colony of bees can be considered an organism. This means that those who are born gravely and/or terminally ill, with their own immune system attacking itself, in conflict of the bodies other functions, but slowly killing the person, are not an organism?
That terrible m.night shalalmanom movie with markie mark did have a very memorable premise. The plants communicating with each other. If you think about it they certainly do. I've lived In rural iowa and Colorado my entire life and things like tree lines and when a dam was removed and the plant life around the river changed almost immediately. They definitely have an "internet" at least a newspaper.
There's one lovely thing which others-sometimes really good youtubers-don't possess... . This enormous sense of humour which makes 42's ;-) videos so enjoyable to watch !!!
Dedicated New England Leaf Peepers will tell you whole mountainsides, entire valleys, and huge swaths of trees (of the same species) will change color at the same time. They don't need to be connected to do this. Leaves change colors and fall off trees because of a number of seasonal changes in things like temperature, humidity, and the availability of sunlight. Leaves are only an asset to a tree as long as their efficiency at photosynthesis remains above a certain level. When the changes in the environment no longer allow the leaves to perform this action as well, the tree literally cuts them off. A barrier of cells between the leaf stem and the tree grows and cuts off the leaf's circulatory system. As I recall, changes in levels of sugar production, and other chemical changes in the leaf leads to the color change. The barrier cells lead to the leaf falling off. Anyway, the trees don't NEED to be connected. Not saying anything more than that, though, about the trees in the video. Maybe they share chemical signals for this purpose. Would be interesting to isolate a group of them from the environment, (but not from the root connections), and see what happens. Keep them warmer and illuminated longer than their neighboring relatives somehow. Trivia bit. As I recall, (from same high school biology class), oak trees are the only trees where the leaves turn fully brown and desiccated before they fall off the tree. Other species leaves fall off while there's still a bit of moisture in them...
Every "yo momma so fat" joke ever "Yo momma so fat she got two smaller fat women orbiting around her." becomes "Yo fungus so big, it's go two smaller colonies growing on other planets."
Just to make a point. I haven't watched the video yet or read any comments. But I wanted to have a go at guessing what the largest living thing is before I do. So here I go, I think it's myecelium, a form of fungus that connects all the tree's together in a vast network that can cross hundreds of square miles. They actually help tree's in a way communicate with each other as well. So that's my guess, myecelium.
Lol his accent is cool but, i could have swore he was saying "FORTY TWO HERE" in the beginning of his videos👀😂😂😂........Always interesting content on his videos...........
No he's not saying 42 he's saying thoughty 2.......!!!!!! @kaioken........it makes since too because thats like the lil name of his commentary business...........!!!!!!!!!
50 seconds in and I pause to type this... I wonder if he will talk about certain plant or fungal colonies? There's the Pando, a clonal colony tree that's may look like varying trees of different ages, but they are all from same root ball system so one big organisms. There are other such plant clonal colonies, like a sea grass in the Med. Se a(yes I misspelled it but spell check wont give the correct spelling!) Then there's this huge fungal colony in Oregon... I forget it's size but it's bigger than Pando. ... going back and watching full video.... YES Pando was mentioned. 2nd edit - Dances in chair has Honey Fungus in Oregon is mentioned.
I was pleased to see on the map of Britain that you placed a piece of wood on my home city of Cardiff. I was a bit worried when I saw Godzilla though 🦖
I have been camping on the mountain where Pando is. Heck, I have burned piece of Pando to roast marshmallows. Anyway it's a surreal place and one of my favorite places to camp.
I enjoy your content so much dear Arran! you are creating a bloody good entertaining RU-vid channel fun and I learn new things. Your nice voice and accent is also a bonus. thank you for bringing positive cool new content in this weird and wonderful RU-vid world. I hope you get millions of subscribers !
This makes me wonder if they could be taught in the same way an animal can. Like, if you introduce an environment where the fungi continually have to do something slightly unusual but possible for them like growing in a pattern that wouldn’t normally happen in nature, in order to reach their food source, and did that to them enough times over a long period of time, like continually adding them to new environments with the same conditions, would they A) come to that solution quicker each time, and B) be able to be tricked into continuing the pattern even in a new environment where it no longer serves a purpose? The first seems almost a given, the second one would be really cool because the ability to fall into a fallacy like that would demonstrate their behaviour is capable of permanent or semi-permanent learned change that becomes habitual or ingrained for them. Of course if they operate more like a computer than a person or animal, it might be impossible or near-impossible to “trick” them like that because they’re constantly problem-solving and sensing solutions and communicating data over a large span each time, rather than developing habits. That seems more likely, now that I think of it, but it would be a really interesting experiment to run. Like the mazes lab rats go through but for fungi.
Just thought I'd drop some respect on the thoughty2 name, keep it up your videos never fail to get me thinking about some existential shit! your a an absolute philosophical heavyweight.
@@hawlitakerful yeah but imagine a network of mycelium spanning a planet the information we could derive from that, especially if it’s genetically modified for our use.
