A Poop-Loving Fungus That Accelerates Faster Than a Bullet

What ’s quicker : A bullet or the fungus Pilobolus ? The folk over atEarth Unpluggedare back to give us a rare feeling at one of the fastest thing on the planet , which — surprising as it may seem — is none other than this poop - loving fungus .

Here , though , we ’re talking firm in term of acceleration . Because though each spore may only reach 20 km per hour when it crucify off of its feces fort , it gets there in just two microsecond , or 2.0e-6 , giving it an speedup of 20,000G. That ’s about the eq of human being being launched at 100 times the speed of sound . fairly impressive for such lowly kickoff — or any beginnings , for that matter . [ Earth Unplugged ]

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