"thanks so much! sorry it didn't get here, and additional thanks for the additional info :)
i know it's unlikely, but part of me really hopes we end up with a color that's decidedly unyellow in one strain someday - red perhaps, or…"
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Soggy popcorn
Started this discussion. Last reply by ian Oct 21, 2019. 4 Replies 1 Like
so i was having a bit of fun with a culture ian sent me, and i decided to try seeing if a bit of slime i left suspended upside down on an ice cream tub lid would eat some soggy popcorn. it didn't…Continue
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"would love for some of this stuff as someone who easily forgets about things hidden away from plain sight - i'd also like your pale and orange strains, too, as i don't believe you ever got around to posting those out to me. or if you did,…"
"perhaps the Slime Propagation, Observation, Reproduction, and Evolution project?"
"oh, something i forgot - something else that helps to form sclerotia is to trick it into crawling onto a surface that doesn't retain moisture - either a dry piece of paper or a nonporous surface such as saran wrap or a plastic bag. they dry up…"
"ian might not be online, so i can answer some of this - his strain, Mazie, is... particularly robust when it comes to growth and movement, so you're right - it is faster than usual.
and as someone who lives in a desert…"
"ah excellent, my brother loves tardigrades - has two plushes of them and has even tried to say our cat is like one... we like weird organisms in this family
there's a cheap portable microscope that's essentially just a bubble of…"
"oh that's fun give more children siege engines please, clearly adults haven't made good enough use of them
i'm young and unemployed for mental health reasons - aspiring storyboard artist beyond that, with three years towards a…"
"as someone who lives in essentially a desert i wondered if there was any way for me to look for native slimes out here - good to know i might just need to submerge drier material to get them to come out and play :) any particular places slimes tend…"
"It's not that they like salt, they can learn to put up with it if there's a reward. You could be right on the oil - high quality energy rich food source, once this week's out of the way I might have a play. "
"thanks for the advice, i had no idea they like salt so much...the popcorn actually had olive oil on it, which i thought might be part of why it likes it so much! i'll try plain popcorn too once i can grab some and definitely do some repeat…"
"Is it salted? It might be worth trying with & without. They can be taught to accept salt in return for food. They also tend to not explore once they've found something to digest. You could try setting out alternating oats & popcorn in a…"
"i read it out loud to my boyfriend and he laughed so hard he couldn't breathe. i think it should be framed and hung in any museum that will accept it"
"brief update on this: the physarum has colonized a new piece of soggy popcorn and is only using the oats i supplied as a bridge across which to access the new piece! the oats are nearly as intact as the day i added them.
scientists... perhaps…"
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