21-08-2005, 04:38 PM | #1 | ||
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Hi to all Biological experts here,
(I majored in Biology at school but I can't imagine what is responsible for this) My girlfrieds Dad chopped of a rotten oak-tree. Then some hours later (it got dark) we noticed that the rotten oak-chunks were glowing in the dark. I googled and wikipediaed until my fingers were bleeding but I couldn't get an answer why ? Something in these chunks made them glowing but what ? I know of Plankton that glows when it dies and some mushrooms do that as well but I am not sure if mushrooms are responsible for it in this case. Any suggestions anyone ? |
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21-08-2005, 04:55 PM | #2 | ||
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it may be those mushrooms or bacteria and so that cause it to rot.many rotting things glows.(im no expert)
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21-08-2005, 05:05 PM | #3 | ||
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I don't know anything about Biology, but it must be the same phenomenon that causes ''lights'' to be seen in cemeteries at night. I think it's because of the substances released during decomposition, or something...
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21-08-2005, 06:43 PM | #4 | ||
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Or simply radiation.
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21-08-2005, 06:53 PM | #5 | ||
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There was similar story in X-files but i dont remember ending
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21-08-2005, 07:02 PM | #6 | ||
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I would go for glowing mushrooms of the kind that grown on rocks.
Not the mushroom with a stem and a hat, but those green mossy kind ones.
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21-08-2005, 07:27 PM | #7 | ||
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I second Tom. And smurfs are mushroom experts. k:
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21-08-2005, 07:39 PM | #8 | ||
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if it is radiation you should stay far away from the tree there might be some radiation in the ground.
if it glows blue it is radiation!! |
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21-08-2005, 07:42 PM | #9 | ||
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It's far more likely to be some sort of fungus than radiation - apart from anything else, radiation doesn't glow like that, only in films and cartoons. There are quite a lot of photogenic fungi and so on that could do it.
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21-08-2005, 07:49 PM | #10 | ||
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@BeefontheBone
it does glow |
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