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a fungus firing millions of children into the wind and hoping for the best
means A spore cloud is the visible mass of microscopic reproductive spores released into the air by a fungus, fern, or similar organism to spread and colonize new ground.
from "Spore" comes from the Greek *spora*, meaning "a sowing" or "seed," from *speirein*, "to sow" — the same scattering-of-seed image that gives us "sperm" and "diaspora." It entered scientific English in the early 19th century as botanists learned that mushrooms, mosses, and ferns reproduce not by seeds but by these dust-fine particles. "Cloud" is the plain old English word for a billowing mass — here borrowed to describe the smoky puff a ripe puffball releases when poked, millions of *sowings* drifting on the wind at once.
- launch speed
- some spores eject at 25 meters per second
- weather maker
- spores seed clouds and trigger raindrops aloft
- sheer numbers
- a single puffball releases trillions of spores
- deep time
- spores have survived in space for years
- hidden everywhere
- you inhale fungal spores with every breath
mount pinatubo 1991 eruption — volcanic ash and debris cloud that reached 80,000 feet over philippines in june 1991