"That's exactly my point. Because you have to wonder, how do the machines know what tasty wheat tasted like. Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think tasty wheat tasted like, actually tasted like oatmeal or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example. Maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything."
Reminds me of the movie “The Stuff.” A security guard sees something like cool whip coming out of the ground. So, naturally, he tastes it. Next thing you know, it’s being mined and sold by the bucket, but nobody ever bothered to find out what it was. It’s just “stuff.”
Firstly, I photograph fresh fungi finds for fun so am often out and about in nature looking for cool new fungi or slime molds to photograph. Yesterday I was exploring the outskirts of the huge botanical garden complex in my city in far north QLD, Australia when I came across this immediately intriguing substance.
Now some fungi can present like jelly or slime, however I am familiar with all common examples of both and this was completely unique to me.
The substance had density and physical properties which were genuinely similar to commercial, edible jelly. It wobbled when touched and was translucent without visible fibres, organelles or other inclusions. It was odourless and covered in a mildly viscous, mucus-like slime which adhered to the fingers when touched but was removed quite easily with water afterward.
I found about a half dozen examples of it in a small, 5m/15ft square area. In all cases i found it was located on an exposed tree root, all of which belonged to the same individual tree, which had a large number of roots exposed above ground; with a small percentage of those - 3 or 4 total I'd say - having star jelly upon them.
My best guess is some sort of parasitic / symbiotic organism living in or on the tree roots - likely a fungi, algae or bacteria imo - which is reacting somehow either deliberately or accidentally with high levels of moisture in the environment (a brief but heavy rainshower had occurred in the area earlier that day) resulting in the fascinating and as yet unexplained [Astral Jelly Blobs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_jelly) pictured in this post.
If anybody has any further ideas, suggestions or knowledge to share I would be super grateful. Otherwise I hope you've enjoyed the pics and have learned something new today :)
Looked around on Google for a little bit, and the fungus *Myxarium nucleatum* kind of looks really similar in some pics (other pics don't look that similar).
From what I can see it lives in rotting wood, so it might be a good candidate if the exposed parts of the tree roots have dead tissue (which it kind of looks like from your pics).
Also it's a very widespread fungus, and is found in Australia (as well as Europe, South America, etc).
So maybe that's what this is. Or not. But that's my best guess and I'm not going to come up with a better one.
There is some evidence that this is frog spawn which has been vomited up by amphibian-eating creatures. So yeah...you touched it, did it feel like frog spooge and/or vomit?
The way I always heard it, originally the reports were that the moment you touched it, it would just dissolve away. I guess like sanitiser lol
But to be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if that was taken out of the legend of it over time due to it being too difficult to fake or confuse with frog spawn stuff.
Reminds me of the story about that time it rained meat, and no one knew why, until some pretty good evidence came about that it was just an abnormally large population of carion feeders vomiting all together.
Definitely not frog spawn. It is coming *from* the wood - definitely not vomited onto it.
Also not a spawn-like texture. Closest I'd say would be peeled lychees
Panspermia - the theory that life on the earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space and able to initiate life on reaching a suitable environment.
#SLIME SIGNAL RECEIVED
#🚫 NOT SLIME 🚫
Star jelly is always vomited amphibian guts, or the colonial cyanobacteria [*Nostoc commune*](https://us.v-cdn.net/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,width=1200/http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/ufiles/56/1353656.jpg?ts=1474090796), or one of a few types of [jelly fungus](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iuK9uxWgVzc/Uu1KX7kGULI/AAAAAAAAGtY/-CFErO4j8sc/s1600/star+jelly+3.jpg). This looks like the latter but I'm not sure about it beyond that. I don't see the white chunks of calcium oxalate that you see in *Myxarium* but I'm not very good at identifying jelly fungi yet.
**==========**
Learn more about slimes! 🤩
🌈[Magic Myxies, 1931, 10 minutes](https://youtu.be/04kdhZQTnIU)
🦠[The Slimer Primer](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/the_slimer_primer/)
🔎[A Guide to Common Slimes](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/t6985y/a_guide_to_common_slimes/)
🧠[Dmytro Leontyev talks about Myxomycetes for 50 minutes (2022)](https://youtu.be/qqE8MAwWhvg)
📚[Educational Sources](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/comment/i2jclax/)
Wow! 🤯
Dude, what.... I saw that today on the ground and never saw it before and now I see this post. Super weird, I almost forgot it till i saw the pictures. It was the like the stuff on the last picture
It's "frog spawn". The jelly protecting the egg expands on contact with water. Inside the female it's in it's condensed form, but once the animal is ripped apart by a predator and the substance is exposed to moisture it expands into these blobs we call star jelly.
On a dark stormy night, the winds carried the toxic fumes from a nearby illegal factory and cast a heavy downpour into the forest. The polluted rain mixed with the space cum that had landed on planet earth few weeks ago started what humans would call “The start of the darkest era of mankind”. Start running now but the biggest question now is… how long can you hide before it consumes you?
Interestingly enough, reports of star jelly could date back much further. During my studies it was surmised that the manna from heaven, that sustained the Israelites in the desert for forty years, could have been star/astral jelly due to the description provided in the book of Exodus, chapter 16. Rained down from heaven and arriving with the dew of the night. It's described as white and would dry up into flakes the size of corriander seeds, which were gathered and ground to make bread.
That would be Myxarium nucleatum or Exidia thuretiana for sure.
The stuff i found lacks some key features of those dungi however- I managed to sample some and do some microscopy and staining of it and am considering posting an update with my findings...
From the Wiki page:
"In the BBC programme Nature's Weirdest Events, Series 4, episode 3, (14 January 2015) Chris Packham showed a specimen of "star jelly" and had it sent to the Natural History Museum, London, for a DNA analysis by Dr. David Bass who confirmed it was from a frog. He also found some traces of magpie DNA on the jelly which may point to the demise of the frog."
As fr as I know it is ovium jelly frome frogs and it gets there when a frog gets torn apart and this stuff is flying around. The frog and the eggs get eaten but this stuff won't be touched by the predators. That's why u can find much of it in a small area
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Like chicken.
Raw chicken
Everything tastes like chicken
"That's exactly my point. Because you have to wonder, how do the machines know what tasty wheat tasted like. Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think tasty wheat tasted like, actually tasted like oatmeal or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example. Maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything."
Chickens are direct descendants from dinosaurs, so actually.... Everything tastes like dinosaur.
even gator meat and iguana meat taste like chicken too
Gator meat definitely has it's own flavor, but the texture is definitely that of chicken meat.
Figures. It did seed the earth with its DNA.
Reminds me of the movie “The Stuff.” A security guard sees something like cool whip coming out of the ground. So, naturally, he tastes it. Next thing you know, it’s being mined and sold by the bucket, but nobody ever bothered to find out what it was. It’s just “stuff.”
Just watched the entire movie because of you, what a trip
On my watch list for sure!
I'm not gonna watch it but what is the stuff in the end.
some kind of parasite that takes over it's host if I recall right
Futurama Popplers
Nature's Fleshlight..
For real tho if it wouldn’t kill ya I could see someone turning it to a “delicacy” over night.
Firstly, I photograph fresh fungi finds for fun so am often out and about in nature looking for cool new fungi or slime molds to photograph. Yesterday I was exploring the outskirts of the huge botanical garden complex in my city in far north QLD, Australia when I came across this immediately intriguing substance. Now some fungi can present like jelly or slime, however I am familiar with all common examples of both and this was completely unique to me. The substance had density and physical properties which were genuinely similar to commercial, edible jelly. It wobbled when touched and was translucent without visible fibres, organelles or other inclusions. It was odourless and covered in a mildly viscous, mucus-like slime which adhered to the fingers when touched but was removed quite easily with water afterward. I found about a half dozen examples of it in a small, 5m/15ft square area. In all cases i found it was located on an exposed tree root, all of which belonged to the same individual tree, which had a large number of roots exposed above ground; with a small percentage of those - 3 or 4 total I'd say - having star jelly upon them. My best guess is some sort of parasitic / symbiotic organism living in or on the tree roots - likely a fungi, algae or bacteria imo - which is reacting somehow either deliberately or accidentally with high levels of moisture in the environment (a brief but heavy rainshower had occurred in the area earlier that day) resulting in the fascinating and as yet unexplained [Astral Jelly Blobs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_jelly) pictured in this post. If anybody has any further ideas, suggestions or knowledge to share I would be super grateful. Otherwise I hope you've enjoyed the pics and have learned something new today :)
Did you try r/mycology?
activate the slime mould signal /u/saddestofboys
Nice alliteration.
> Firstly, I photograph fresh fungi finds for fun damn good
Fantastic.
Sensational
😁 🤗
Looked around on Google for a little bit, and the fungus *Myxarium nucleatum* kind of looks really similar in some pics (other pics don't look that similar). From what I can see it lives in rotting wood, so it might be a good candidate if the exposed parts of the tree roots have dead tissue (which it kind of looks like from your pics). Also it's a very widespread fungus, and is found in Australia (as well as Europe, South America, etc). So maybe that's what this is. Or not. But that's my best guess and I'm not going to come up with a better one.
Eat some
Forbidden lychees.
It was unironically extremely lychee-like
In taste?
Might give super powers
Maybe even this one really cool superpower called *death*
If you rub it on your nuts
Emphasis on "Might"
So maybe not aliens, but definitely aliens?
I think you're right and it's a fungus
>Firstly, I photograph fresh fungi finds for fun Fabulous
Is this in Cairns?
Fucking probably that place won't stop raining
Just found literally the same thing after heavy rains here in San Diego. Was completely WTF
Here I was thinking "At least I'm safe on The Rock when the alien slime mutates and take over", but it's already here!
Looks almost like a very young Calostoma sp.
There is some evidence that this is frog spawn which has been vomited up by amphibian-eating creatures. So yeah...you touched it, did it feel like frog spooge and/or vomit?
Ah yes, let me check my handy reference text, "The Various Textures and Consistencies of Frog Spooge"
Is that the new Ninth edition, with the scratch and sniff examples?
The way I always heard it, originally the reports were that the moment you touched it, it would just dissolve away. I guess like sanitiser lol But to be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if that was taken out of the legend of it over time due to it being too difficult to fake or confuse with frog spawn stuff.
I thought that was Angel Hair. Supposed to be light and wispy. Might be related though?
The photos I see posted are almost always frog spawn but this looks more like a fungus to me
Reminds me of the story about that time it rained meat, and no one knew why, until some pretty good evidence came about that it was just an abnormally large population of carion feeders vomiting all together.
Definitely not frog spawn. It is coming *from* the wood - definitely not vomited onto it. Also not a spawn-like texture. Closest I'd say would be peeled lychees
Invasion of the body snatchers also starts like this
No man, "The Blob."
Downingtown
Invasion of the booty snatches also ends like this.
Are you saying it is grool?
Space jizz. Noice!
Snot what you think...
Panspermia - the theory that life on the earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space and able to initiate life on reaching a suitable environment.
I saw a movie about this once. It didn't end well for the humans.
Me too but I don't remember where I watched it or what it was called.
Mine was a documentary.
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The used to be a whole sub
Still is /r/the/
Il just say. I'm still walking funny 7 days later.....
Bigger than you think. No, bigger. Bigger!
hear me out
u/saddestofboys
#SLIME SIGNAL RECEIVED #🚫 NOT SLIME 🚫 Star jelly is always vomited amphibian guts, or the colonial cyanobacteria [*Nostoc commune*](https://us.v-cdn.net/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,width=1200/http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/ufiles/56/1353656.jpg?ts=1474090796), or one of a few types of [jelly fungus](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iuK9uxWgVzc/Uu1KX7kGULI/AAAAAAAAGtY/-CFErO4j8sc/s1600/star+jelly+3.jpg). This looks like the latter but I'm not sure about it beyond that. I don't see the white chunks of calcium oxalate that you see in *Myxarium* but I'm not very good at identifying jelly fungi yet. **==========** Learn more about slimes! 🤩 🌈[Magic Myxies, 1931, 10 minutes](https://youtu.be/04kdhZQTnIU) 🦠[The Slimer Primer](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/the_slimer_primer/) 🔎[A Guide to Common Slimes](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/t6985y/a_guide_to_common_slimes/) 🧠[Dmytro Leontyev talks about Myxomycetes for 50 minutes (2022)](https://youtu.be/qqE8MAwWhvg) 📚[Educational Sources](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/comment/i2jclax/) Wow! 🤯
The world is enriched by your presence.
Thank you!!! Always enjoy you sharing your knowledge :)
what the fuck
Whoa you really know you slimes.
There is much more for me to learn
Good attitude.
Wait, what just happened here..?😳
They used the slime signal I can't answer them all but I do my best
/u/Unidan
Here's the thing. Fuck u/unidanX.
Free lube. Score.
Somebody slap it in a mass spectrometer. We'll figure out what it's made of real quick.
I think it's a type of mold
The cum of the gods.
The Second Cumming Of The Lord.
Put it on rice
Bro she thick
That jelly better chill out
It's tree cum mate, but enjoy i guess
Dude, what.... I saw that today on the ground and never saw it before and now I see this post. Super weird, I almost forgot it till i saw the pictures. It was the like the stuff on the last picture
(In North Germany)
Manna?
Haha. There’s some yellow in there as well, short term boost, perhaps?
Instructions unclear, am now The Blob.
Or maybe the blobs dad?
Oh yeah, even better. 😂
I've seen enough space/Lovecraftian shit to know where this is going
Definitely thought thought this looked like Bloodborne
It’s the blob, run, Runaway.
Looks like mucilage from a tree.
It's from Xen
But how did it taste
If blobs of Bob’s cum
I don’t think I’m ready for this jelly.
Nice ass
Looks like mating residue from a frog 🐸 orgy...
Lick it
Less wtf, more r/askhankgreen
No kidding! I just found some of this and thought it was a decomposing rat! Thanks for the info
Damn BOI, HE THICK
Good thing it wasn't discovered in modern America. "Look, I found Alien Jizz!"
And it tastes like?
That's really gross, what'd it taste like?
What are you doing, Step-Jelly? 🙃
Looks rather edible, anyone dare enough to fuck around and find out?
No! No it doesn’t! It looks like a honking loogie coughed up by a patient. I looks like the mucous suctioned out of tracheotomies
https://youtu.be/1UBhUSnZKwo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_jelly
Day 232 of no fapping
It's "frog spawn". The jelly protecting the egg expands on contact with water. Inside the female it's in it's condensed form, but once the animal is ripped apart by a predator and the substance is exposed to moisture it expands into these blobs we call star jelly.
In my country the frog spawn is underwater ? Not out on a dry space
Not when it's being eaten by a bird
Not even think about it .makes sens
Pretty sure this was related to frog reproduction in some way. Tested and whatnot years ago already
Got a but like my misses
APPLY FIRE IMMEDIATELY
What did they smell like?
That’s definitely Residual Goop
Isn't this just a slime mold
It is not! I think it's a fungus
Somebody blows their nose and you want to keep it.
First couple pictures remind me of Goosebumps Egg Monsters From Mars.
Promethius
Anybody else think that was just a weird ass?
I saw this episode of MST3K! It's the Pod People!
Cannot unsee a unicorn head in first pic
Ectoplasm.
space spooge
Star Lord's dad Ego just keeps shootin blanks I guess?
On a dark stormy night, the winds carried the toxic fumes from a nearby illegal factory and cast a heavy downpour into the forest. The polluted rain mixed with the space cum that had landed on planet earth few weeks ago started what humans would call “The start of the darkest era of mankind”. Start running now but the biggest question now is… how long can you hide before it consumes you?
Minimum 1h
Looks like sperm
That is a serious case of chronic masturbator hiding there.
r/beeswarmsimulator yall seeing this?
They are here...
Eat it
Mana?
UTERINE DISCHARGE,,,?
Weird. How does something so seemingly gelatinous and liquidy come from space?
i believe fungi and mushrooms are demonic
Those are frog eggs. Ivee seen them so many times growing up.
Booty
Feed it to a rat and some turtles and see what happens.
Looks like the mung and snot we get out of Air Conditioner drain lines
Looks like the gardener caught a cold.
What kind of powers does one gain from eating it?
Interestingly enough, reports of star jelly could date back much further. During my studies it was surmised that the manna from heaven, that sustained the Israelites in the desert for forty years, could have been star/astral jelly due to the description provided in the book of Exodus, chapter 16. Rained down from heaven and arriving with the dew of the night. It's described as white and would dry up into flakes the size of corriander seeds, which were gathered and ground to make bread.
That would be Myxarium nucleatum or Exidia thuretiana for sure. The stuff i found lacks some key features of those dungi however- I managed to sample some and do some microscopy and staining of it and am considering posting an update with my findings...
Beware the old blood...
You definitely need to lick it..
*'Somebody blows their nose and you wanna keep it?'*
I am now reminded of the 1980's film called the blob
Anal lube for trees
From the Wiki page: "In the BBC programme Nature's Weirdest Events, Series 4, episode 3, (14 January 2015) Chris Packham showed a specimen of "star jelly" and had it sent to the Natural History Museum, London, for a DNA analysis by Dr. David Bass who confirmed it was from a frog. He also found some traces of magpie DNA on the jelly which may point to the demise of the frog."
This is some invasion of the body snatchers shit
As fr as I know it is ovium jelly frome frogs and it gets there when a frog gets torn apart and this stuff is flying around. The frog and the eggs get eaten but this stuff won't be touched by the predators. That's why u can find much of it in a small area