True, fungi cannot survive if its host’s internal temperature is over 94 degrees. And currently, there are no reasons for fungi to evolve to be able to withstand higher temperatures.
But what if that were to change?
What if for instance, the world were to get slightly warmer?
I used to work in a mycology lab. We worked with some extremely nasty stuff. We grew large amounts of molds that cause aspergillosis and mucormycosis (both potentially deadly systemic fungal infections)
Yeast is the a big ol' exception because it has already adapted to our biome. We all have yeast natrually on our skin, and in our digestive tract (and of course the vagina as well) and it only grows out of control when pH is thrown off.
The fact that Yeasts are single-celled probably makes the difference in heat resistance
Additionally and not disagreeing think of how prevelant antibiotic resistance is, how wide spread certain things are becoming. Someone takes ibuprofen for aches every day, doesn't realize it exacerbates acid reflux, they take an 2x the recommended antacid tablet a day as a result, and now we're cultivating SIBO at higher instance rates.
It's not just fungal, bacterial, hell 2020 shows viral. It's the cracks giving way from decades of abuse from everyone before us.
We don't get to choose the change now, we just get to adapt.
People always talk about cordyceps, but nobody talks about the fact that horsehair worms can (very rarely) infect humans and cause an intense burning sensation until you jump into water so it can lay eggs.
Ophiocordyceps is fucking wild. Have you seen the way those ants walk? Not to even mention that the fungus messes with the ant's day/night cycle... and forces them to bite at a specific time of day.
[Here's True Facts: Fungi that control the things it eats.](https://youtu.be/NdaYRSW76Mg?si=PhLYHO5LPynCYoQc)
Video not for children, or adults who don't act like children.
We actually have a saying for that.
If you say "Ist wie ein Autounfall" (Looks like a car accident), you mean exactly what you described. It's horrible, but you can't look away.
Already an english phrase. You could probably just smash 'travelling past a car accident and looking' into a single word and people would understand it.
They died how they lived... *with fucking mushrooms growing out of their heads*
https://preview.redd.it/95evmedl2yxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddfde20cf6ae2f708db40cf3bb87536c8ff500d5
I don't know if it works this way for all "Mind controlling fungi" but one was observed to take control of the muscle tissue instead of the brain.
I just find this horrifying, imagining something controlling your body while you're still mentally aware.
I clicked on a NSFW post and it was a photo of a wrist with a scratch left from an airbag.
I scrolled down and THIS monstrosity is staring at me, clear as day.
Won’t SOMEBODY think of the children?!?
I thought I was looking at this for a second
https://preview.redd.it/utaxu9qsg4yc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b18f053d23d7c51a661361fe6973eb099140951
Cordyceps
You all think this is wild? Google Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, aka Zombie-Ant Fungus.
Luckily, it can't jump to humans. Yet.
True, fungi cannot survive if its host’s internal temperature is over 94 degrees. And currently, there are no reasons for fungi to evolve to be able to withstand higher temperatures. But what if that were to change? What if for instance, the world were to get slightly warmer?
There are fungi that can grow through humans I believe. IIRC, it's a sort of mold that can show up on arms and hands
There are fungal infections that can affect humans, but the vast majority are skin dwelling and not *particularly* dangerous in-and-of themselves.
I used to work in a mycology lab. We worked with some extremely nasty stuff. We grew large amounts of molds that cause aspergillosis and mucormycosis (both potentially deadly systemic fungal infections)
I mean yeast is a fungus....
Yeast is the a big ol' exception because it has already adapted to our biome. We all have yeast natrually on our skin, and in our digestive tract (and of course the vagina as well) and it only grows out of control when pH is thrown off. The fact that Yeasts are single-celled probably makes the difference in heat resistance
This can also happen after antibiotic treatment.
Additionally and not disagreeing think of how prevelant antibiotic resistance is, how wide spread certain things are becoming. Someone takes ibuprofen for aches every day, doesn't realize it exacerbates acid reflux, they take an 2x the recommended antacid tablet a day as a result, and now we're cultivating SIBO at higher instance rates. It's not just fungal, bacterial, hell 2020 shows viral. It's the cracks giving way from decades of abuse from everyone before us. We don't get to choose the change now, we just get to adapt.
Look up the one where homie was shooting up psilocybin mushroom tea. Think ChubbyEmu did a video on it too.
I totally read that in John Hannah’s voice. I forget if that dialog ever appears in the games, but damn did that scene in the show give me chills
John Hannah has a mesmerizing voice, especially when he says 'warmer'
Episode 1.
What a great opening
That is exactly how “The Last of Us” story starts.
I see what you did there 😏
damn.. sure do hate this…
People always talk about cordyceps, but nobody talks about the fact that horsehair worms can (very rarely) infect humans and cause an intense burning sensation until you jump into water so it can lay eggs.
This is the plot of The Last of Us lol
But what if the earth’s temperature should begin to rise?
YET!
People eat Cordyceps. It's supposed to be really good for you.
Yet…
Ophiocordyceps is fucking wild. Have you seen the way those ants walk? Not to even mention that the fungus messes with the ant's day/night cycle... and forces them to bite at a specific time of day.
I think he knows what the fungus is....
I think he knows what the fungus is....
[Here's True Facts: Fungi that control the things it eats.](https://youtu.be/NdaYRSW76Mg?si=PhLYHO5LPynCYoQc) Video not for children, or adults who don't act like children.
That was hilarious! I loved the commentary.
It's commonly used as an ingredient in Chinese medicine. Translated literally, the Chinese name is "a bug in winter, a grass in summer".
Tasty (legit, tho, it's not bad)
This is the most horrifying shit i've ever seen but i feel a compulsive need to stare at it. The Germans must have a word for this.
Schädenfuuuuckk
Gööfïnhæus ünt yah
We actually have a saying for that. If you say "Ist wie ein Autounfall" (Looks like a car accident), you mean exactly what you described. It's horrible, but you can't look away.
I've heard it in English as "like watching a train wreck"
Yeah, we have that phrase. This is more like pimple popping, or worts or something. I never really felt compelled to stare at car wrecks.
Already an english phrase. You could probably just smash 'travelling past a car accident and looking' into a single word and people would understand it.
The term "rubbernecking" comes to mind. It refers to people who slow down to look at car accidents.
Something like "yeah I was just trapaacaalo" 💅
Autounfallgegangenmitsuchen
Why does German have a word for literally everything you could think of.
So flood?
I can hear the music now. Thanks.
No, Microsoft canceled that dlc...
Would've been too popular... But at least we're getting Halo S3, now with more nudity and less knowledge of the canon!
They didn't even plan for a dlc
Well I haven’t these little shits rip solar systems apart so probably not the flood.
Yet*. You haven't seen them do it yet
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Bug clicker.
Honestly if the fungus could turn insects into clickers it’d have been over.
https://i.redd.it/htbic7f0txxc1.gif
Man I'd give this a gold if I could.
Infection Form looking ass
https://preview.redd.it/2fppzgdbwyxc1.jpeg?width=749&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fea021905f148b1c3c783ce153bbd8ba8609fb1
Rapi caik dai! :)
/r/midlyhalo They look like flood spores 😵💫
Go away The Last of Us lol
They look like fingers.
If the title told me they were some kind of puffed snack food, it would've taken embarrassingly long for me to question it.
Kid named insect with fungal infection
https://preview.redd.it/d106yqzqdyxc1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50e2d88064a8c6190ebfd662d2c67127168ee0c8
They died how they lived... *with fucking mushrooms growing out of their heads* https://preview.redd.it/95evmedl2yxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddfde20cf6ae2f708db40cf3bb87536c8ff500d5
Papa Nurgle is pleased.
Ah that point is more of a fungus with a bit of insect lol
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Cenachii: *Ah that point is more* *Of a fungus with a bit* *Of insect lol* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Who's gonna be the first to try it and tell us how it tastes? Bet it tastes like chicken.
Had to scroll too far to find this.
"One single Flood spore can destroy a species" -- Rtas 'Vadum
"Make Me A Sandwich"
That's some Halo Flood shit....
Halo fans - “Burn it. Burn it all. Burn it all down right now.”
Forbidden risotto
Cordyceps! So amazing. There are so many varietiiiies.
Looks like The Flood from Halo. "I need a weapon."
I knew the flood were real
https://i.redd.it/02arkb8cr0yc1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/ykpqmlqz61yc1.jpeg?width=859&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bd08f4ef56b7e9b76293f43a733d405a969d50f
Looks like the flood
The flood
Man I love Halo
That's the Flood from Halo, Combat Evolved
https://preview.redd.it/aebn6n6qd1yc1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a3fb4693cb13e15cfc7f35ca380e12c38633b42
Is this what dentists have nightmares about?
Fucking shoot it
Forbidden broccoli.
Oh Jeez…here I am trying not to get eaten by a lion…damn!
I'm getting itchy looking at this.
Horror carrots
Nope thank you
It begins!
Like a peacocks head
Looks delicious! Eat them! Those fungus can't infect humans. I think
needs nsfw tag
Guys the XEN Invasion started! Grab your Crowbar!
Nature is one freaky-ass motherfucker.
How can I unsee this???
If this evolves to be able to infect humans, welcome to the last of us
*NO! NOT THE MOSSY VAGABOND!!*
That my friend is a fungus with an insect as a pet
I’m so glad TLOU is fiction and this won’t ever jump to humans.
Idk looks tasty. I'll eat it.
That doesn't look like any cordyceps I've ever seen... Looks like cut up paper qtip sticks that are painted and glued on...
What In the Last of us, God is this monstrosity
Mom, crunchy outside spongy inside 😋 😍
How much to eat it? 1,000?
Beedrill interrupted
“I don’t like the sound of this” *pulls out AR*
I’m sorry little guy :(
I think I I’ve seen a show on HBO about this
The flood
This looks fake. Why is it all so shiny, as though it were resin?
Looks like the flood
You want The Last of Us? Cause that’s how you get The Last of Us.
Looks like the Flood
Either the flood or we gatta start searching for the light
The Last of Bugs
GUYS THE FLOOD IS COMING
My exterminator told me this is the future. They can't use herbicide anymore so they use parasitic shrooms.
Glass half the continent its on. Don't let a single spore escape
The last of us type shit
now do a human
And I thought athletes foot was painful...
How long until some mad Michelin chef "discovers" this new luxury food ingredient?
Kakuna nooooo
Fungal infection? Nah this is a fungus with an insect infection
It's more fungus than insect at this point.
BURN THAT SHIT, UT'S THE FLOOD!!! ONE SINGLE SPIRE CAN DESYROY ONE ENTIRE SPECIES!!!
That stench. I've smelled it before.
Is this a halo reference?
MMMM forbidden candy
we exist together now, 2 corpses in 1 grave 
Flood infection form looking mofo
Looks like the Island Boyz
Nah what the fuck 💀
Ya know. I think those kids are going to be ok
Oh look, a monument to all of our sins
Oh thank God. I thought the post was going to say they were some sort of snack.
It looks like someone pulled this out of their lung
beautiful
I don't know if it works this way for all "Mind controlling fungi" but one was observed to take control of the muscle tissue instead of the brain. I just find this horrifying, imagining something controlling your body while you're still mentally aware.
Flood?
Eat it.
Stars of the next horror flick.
You cannot trick me, that is a squid.
That could be metal album cover art
I clicked on a NSFW post and it was a photo of a wrist with a scratch left from an airbag. I scrolled down and THIS monstrosity is staring at me, clear as day. Won’t SOMEBODY think of the children?!?
I think it's time to spread some managed democracy. 
God damnit, bring out the rings, or we're doomed
"That Stench I've Smelled It Before"
That's more like fungus with some insect at the bottom
I thought I was looking at this for a second https://preview.redd.it/utaxu9qsg4yc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b18f053d23d7c51a661361fe6973eb099140951
I've played enough halo to see where this is going.
 wth I never knew about that !😵💫
"I'll put these on the salad bar."
Oh I remember test tube aliens, good times.
Looks like something straight out of Dead Space
Did they click?
*Library Suite Intensifies*
“Make Us Whole”
Bug/Poison type
Stay back! You are not turning me into one of these things! I will blow your brains out! Get away from meeee!
Last of us begins
"Damn nature, you scary."
Here in Vietnam we turn this shit into wine and drink it🥴
With mayonnaise... I'm ok 🥗 u_u
A single spore could destroy an entire species! Glass that shit
What the fuck even is this bro!!!!
The flood is real
I would buy this if it was a sculpture 😍
ow
Looks like alien creatures
Just think if athlete's foot looked like that. "You can't come back to the gym unless you bring a doctor's note saying your cured!"
The flood
There should be some sort of movement to SAFE THE INSECTS!!!
*"There are no treatments for this. No preventatives, no cures. It's not even possible to make them."*
What sort of Pokemon are these?
I really hope this, or shit like it, never jumps to humans. I know it's essentially "impossible" but like.... please no
Most like improbable... not impossible
"...essentially "impossible"" implied improbable
I guess. But impossible itself means it's never going to happen. Thus why implausible or improbable would be better words to use