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I was a projectionist at a 12-plex in late high school through college!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Oh cool! It came out in the 90s, so hardly anyone has seen it. I've yet to meet anyone who has. It's such a beautiful film all around.

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I hadn't heard it was a burial mound. That's kind of cool actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

The Secret of Roan Inish is a top five movie for me. Mick Lally doing traditional Irish storytelling is truly amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

If you haven't seen it, you should look up: The Secret of Roan Inish

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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain

That's a delightful movie as well.

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Waking Ned Divine is one of my favorite movies ever. It's such a delightful movie!

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Fun fact: Odo runs around naked 100% of the time.

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Interesting. Short and sweet

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When even Dick Cheney thinks Trump is too fascist....

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TAS S1E09: "Once Upon a Planet"

 
 
 
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Spore Drive incoming? (www.independent.co.uk)
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/17039986

Engineers gave a mushroom a robot body and let it run wild

Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when their vast mycelial networks flicker and pulse with electrochemical responses akin to those of our own brain cells.

But given a chance, what might this web of impulses do if granted a moment of freedom?

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell University in the US and the University of Florence in Italy took steps to find out, putting a culture of the edible mushroom species Pleurotus eryngii (also known as the king oyster mushroom) in control of a pair of vehicles, which can twitch and roll across a flat surface.

Through a series of experiments, the researchers showed it was possible to use the mushroom's electrophysiological activity as a means of translating environmental cues into directives, which could, in turn, be used to drive a mechanical device's movements.

"By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment," says senior researcher Rob Shepherd, a materials scientist at Cornell.

 
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