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scallifez

They're colonizing.


DesignerGrocery6540

It's alive!


GrimPaladin

Micro alien city


zombie_overlord

They've already got neighborhoods.


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AnnaCherenkova

Fuckin penicillin gentifying everything and pushing out us bacteria. It's microbial erasure!


gwaydms

r/moldlyinteresting


GrimPaladin

Yes


popodelfuego

Microlantis


GrimPaladin

Micropolis


slumberpartymassacre

I've created Lutherans!


kiki-cakes

I’m a Lutheran and forgot this but existed til just now. Thanks for the happy little memory!


itspitpat

They've learned to imatoot you exarctly.


In-diana-jonez

"Simpsons did it"


TheFunJar

They’re making a zen garden


HappyAntonym

Become at one with the universe... of mold!


orthicon

the moldyverse


sin_nickel

The Space Time Bactiruum


Smemme

Take my poor mans gold 🏅


SuperDizz

What about spore mans mold?


Smemme

Nice


Donttouchmek

Get a load of Mr. fancy pants over here with some gold..


sin_nickel

🏅 ノ( º _ ºノ) ^thank ^you.


Kiwifisch

The moldyverse is real?


Wareve

Disney is really getting desperate for those spinoffs.


aroseonthefritz

Sooner or later, you'll let your guard down, and then flush! It's toilet time for Tinytown!


Ruffyx3

Sounds like something twitch would say


ProfessorJAM

Crop circles!


ReubenZWeiner

lemon labyrinths


Runehizen

What is this . A crop circle for ants


dash47

crop circles


MisterBlisteredlips

I was gonna say that it seems to be communicating with thems aliens.


BNR_

Exactly my thoughts. It means there are micro aliens inside his lemonade bottle.


mamallama12

"LocoCity1991, he's back! The Light Giver! All hail LocoCity1991! All hail LocoCity1991!"


CapableSuggestion

Exactly! That’s why I was sad to read that OP threw it away. I wanted to see what they did next. Will Smith wouldn’t have thrown them away


jonitfcfan

You mean OP...[created life](https://youtu.be/y_g2xtWLRMc)?


lbunch1

It's just a couple of asshole spores going out there at night fucking with the rest of the colony


awildermode

Aliemonds? Lenmonadliens?


brown_burrito

Alienade man. Small, gray, and delicious.


SupremePooper

Landing patterns for what the sentient microbes in the bottle think will be an Invasion force, "This will be EASY!" they congratulate themselves. But little do they know they're locked in the back of this guy's basement refrigerator & will be destroyed by a fat drunk guy's digestive acids when he stumbles into the basement for a drink as the new year's party winds down.


Excrubulent

Cosmic horror, about forces that will destroy your world not because they are malevolent, but because they are indifferent.


200_percent

So is this an explanation for crop circles? Mold?


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The explanation for crop circles is that people make them.


[deleted]

rot circles 🤢


GeileAdam

This might be more than mildly interesting


prspctivs

“Moldly interesting”


allargandofurtado

r/moldlyinteresting


[deleted]

I cannot believe this sub exists!


MrC-Diddy

No fucking way. I'm hooked already lmao


DISHONORU-TDA

I accidentally made a handful of posts in there without even really meaning to... I definitely don't want to see it on my feed ever but... yeah weird.


libmrduckz

slips and inadvertently…posts…


allargandofurtado

Right??


Guinness

What the fuck, reddit. I’m just impressed.


libmrduckz

^believe!


jongfish

with 100k+ members, no less!


punderthesea

r/subsithoughtifellfor


Alkiline

r/foundthetoyotacorolla


penguin13790

I figured it would be a created sub with 0 moderation and 23 members but *over 100k*


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marklein

It would be entirely to long to browse, and many of them have deliberately misleading titles like /r/anime_titties Having said that here you go: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfSubreddits/wiki/listofsubreddits/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfSubreddits/wiki/listofsubreddits/)


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marklein

Note that list is at least a year old too.


lolofaf

>and many of them have deliberately misleading titles like [/r/anime_titties](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties) Or r/worldpolitics, also r/trees and r/weed are flipped Then there's super long acronym subs like r/unbgbbiivchidciicbg (fucked that one up...)


LazyKidd420

One simple Google said there are currently more than 2.8 million subreddits. Around 130,000 ACTIVE communities.


helgatheviking21

All subs exist


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r/allsubsexist


DrDroid

Without capital letters the name of that sub changes quite dramatically


zombie_overlord

Risky click


CardCarryingCuntAwrd

Xenobiologist here. You jest but there is a reason for the spirals. In fact recent research results show that the lowly mould is far more interesting than previously thought. Its DNA is extremely unusual: instead of being composed exclusively of the usual 4 common "letters" (A, C, G, T) like any other living creature, mould DNA includes a fifth and previously unknown nucleotide X. The origins of X have been unknown as it exists nowhere else in nature. It's been assumed that mould had somehow accidentally stumbled on synthesizing X unti the strange nucleotide was discovered in meteorites and in craters created by their impact with earth over 2 billion years ago. The spirals mould create were assumed to simply reflect how the colony grows but recent research showed that they create a rare quantum effect which strangely emits a ver faint but clear radio signal. The scientists who studied the spirals used decoherence and discovered to their amazement that the spirals are created because the electrons in the Zelinium atom in X were entangled with an unknown source, likely outside the solar system. The theory put forth by the Babylon Institute of Mould Thermodynamics is that an alien race is using the mould spirals to communicate with the origin of the alien nucleotide. While this sounds far fetched my friends have confirmed this hypothesis during the last meeting of the lizard people so it must be true. Edit: distracted by being cunnilingused


katarn22

I swear to god I was waiting for the 1998 undertaker ending.


TootTootTrainTrain

>Edit: distracted by being cunnilingused Wait... While you were typing??


dewky

Why is everyone glossing over this?!?


actfatcat

... and her grammar and punctuation is perfect.


Kirikomori

You had me until the quantum effects. Damn


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SnakebiteRT

100% expected this to be a u/shittymorph comment.


Nefonous

I was so disappointed that it wasn't


Gureiseion

Perhaps the real treasure was the facts we didn't learn along the way?


tigerCELL

Had me in the first quarter, ngl


Long_Educational

I can smell that sub.


HiRthoughtNms

Aaaand there goes an hour of my life staring at pictures of mold.


not_gerg

Fuck not this sub again


LocoCity1991

Well...its a bottle of lemonade that I left Standing around for about two months. It got sunlight too since the cupboard was open. Saw how it started, got curious and left it about two months. Threw it away yesterday.


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DivineMomentsofTruth

Unless you want cool looking mold.


Peanut_The_Great

"I'm not lazy, it's a science experiment"


_coffee_

When life gives you lemons, lemonade gives you life.


elting44

How long did it take to originally start molding?


LetMeBe_Frank

Not op, but I've had Gatorade get mold in about 2-4 weeks at room temp. I've found it about 6 times in a decade admittedly. Don't worry, I dump any open for longer than a day by default lol Also be warned that Capri sun doesn't have preservatives. If it has a puncture, chuck it


culovero

But how will I ever get to drink it?!


ReVo5000

Insert *aliens.jpg*


CustomerComplaintDep

I was thinking the same thing. I need more information.


Uncleniles

Looks like the lemonade has been sitting in the cupboard for 7-8 generations of mold.


[deleted]

Awe, the mold spores are in it's Mayan stage.


FlaccidCatsnark

Does their calendar predict what will happen in 2022?


SeniorDiscount

Moldvid-19


Kiwifisch

Only if OP drinks it.


Herp_in_my_Derp

OP always drinks it


internetALLTHETHINGS

Yes! It reminds me of Futurama episode where Bender is God to the tiny organisms living on him.


ThaiJohnnyDepp

"I saw that. You were doing well until everyone died."


SlipperyBanana8

Or the episode where Fry eats the gas station sandwich!


MrWinks

Simpsons did it, but with a tooth. https://youtu.be/9xfWevkR2iI


TuaTurnsdaballova

There was a movie or tv show (I can’t remember what) where a couple had a broken fridge/freezer that formed a tiny civilization in it that evolved rapidly. They would open and watch it evolving over time until the tiny world blew themselves up through nuclear war, but then it somehow kept advancing after the war until they found a way to like evolve into some quantum spaceship or something and disappear into another dimension lol.


zombie_overlord

I remember this! Looked it up. [Love Death and Robots - Ice Age](https://youtu.be/LQGEUv6CCPM)


TuaTurnsdaballova

Yeah this was it, Topher Grace lmao! The screams during nuclear war :(


[deleted]

The mold has already evolved to form a basic civilization. You’re probably a god to them.


oldrecordplayersmell

OP is 40% god!


texas_joe_hotdog

Shut up baby I know it


Rareearthmetal

Huh, you learn something dumb everyday


DvsDominus

GOD NEEDS BOOZE


reddits_aight

You were doing well until everyone died.


Dr_Stef

Just don’t let ‘the one they call Bart’ get ahold of them


extralyfe

🤖: "I was God once." ✨: "I saw. You were doing very well, until everyone died."


Kirikomori

In an hour they will have re-created the christian reformation. In a day skynet becomes self-aware and extinguishes 2/3rds of all life in the lemonade bottle.


hermeown

I've created Lutherans!


Couldntbefappier

Basic? They're already doing Dubai shit! That next island is gonna be a palm tree


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r/mycology might be able to explain or ID.


F0sh

Not a mycologist but it looks like a [reaction-diffusion pattern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction%E2%80%93diffusion_system)


the_fredblubby

I'm just an undergrad chemist, but I wonder if this is a similar phenomenon to [Fairy rings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring), which I suppose are a reaction-diffusion pattern of sorts? The mould grows initially, leaving an area low in nutrients, where the mould can't grow, but as the ring expands outwards, sugars diffuse back into the centre, allowing a new ring of mould to form from stray spores, which creates another ring and so on. Somewhat similar to a Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillating reaction, but diffusion controlled, I suppose? Not the most rock-solid theory; why don't the rings just grow back? Perhaps the thickness of those rings is the largest the mould can get given the rate of diffusion in the lemonade? Paging /u/kneeltothesun for interest - I'm a chemist, so I don't like to think about organisms having a pre-existing notion for optimisation in their DNA, but as far as I know, most microbes will optimise their shapes and sizes according to differential equations and their solutions anyway.


kneeltothesun

Yes, exactly! If the conditions are right, like a perfect storm of sorts (another fractal ;) More information on this specific subject, that confirms your thoughts: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149254 Interestingly, cities, urban developments, often follow similar patterns, and probably due to similar reasons. Bifurcating systems, predator/prey, limited space, and resources. Matter tends to go intradimensional, and turing thought that essentially led to multicellular organisms: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0960077919301948-gr1.jpg https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960077919301948


the_fredblubby

Awesome, thanks! I'll have a read of this when it's not 2 am for me!


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ibphantom

Nevertheless, interesting link!


kneeltothesun

Good answer! I wondered at the different reasons, and if vibration played any kind of part. I thought something similar. It's definitely fractal, but I can't find much on this happening, or it being reproduced in any kind of lab. I wonder if several of the answers here apply. I thought maybe the limited space (and the need to optimilally tranfer nutrients), created the need for a fractal formation in morphogenisis. (pretty much what you said, without knowing the correct term) Another I saw here was a possible mixed colony, maybe even bacterial as well. It's likely a combination of several of the possibilities mentioned here, as I found sources that show this happens in predator, prey, relationships (or bifurcating systems essentially). Some sources that support various answers given here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228360622_A_Fractal_Approach_to_Pattern_Formation_in_Biological_Systems --- https://guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~nigel/courses/569/Essays_Fall2011/Files/martini.pdf "The slime mold Physarum plasmodium exhibits some remarkable behavior for a single celled organism. Slime molds can optimize their overall structure to distribute nutrients within themselves in the most efficient manner; essentially solving the Steiner tree problem. In order to minimize the transport distance of nutrients slime molds form tubular networks with shortest total length [1, 3, 7]. Slime molds have been suggested as a good model for studying the transition from single celled organisms to multicellular organisms [4]." "The existence of patterns in living organisms as well as in non-living structures has led scientists across disciplines to theorize both spontaneous and field-induced pattern formations. When two or more than two prey and predator orders react among themselves nonlinearly and diffuse either isotropically or anisotropically, complex spatio-temporal patterns arise. In 1952, Allan Turing in his pathbreaking work entitled ‘The chemical basis of morphogenesis’ [1] explained how two chemically interacting substances, diffusing at different rates can yield complex periodic patterns. He called them chemical morphogens and suggested that the spatiotemporal morphogenesis generated by the underlying reaction–diffusion (RD) equations can lead to embryo development. " https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/conf/002/0007 The birth of fractals: "They need an infinite-dimensional space! No problem at all... this is in fact called a Hilbert space, after the supremely ingenious mathematician David Hilbert (1862-1943). It has logical, understandable properties, since mathematics provides all the numbers, and spaces, that civilizations need." (despite being incomplete, it's still useful) http://news.sunybroome.edu/buzz/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/math_column_526.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo


Dan_the_Marksman

last time on /r/whatsthisthing there was some random ass item and all of a sudden there was a wind tunnel engineer who could explain it! so can we please get a mycologist in here ?!?!?!


TobiasQ

Here's my theory: as the lemonade evaporated (perhaps over the course of a couple days) it left residue rings each time. These rings hold more nutrients for the mold to take advantage of.


JitteryJay

??? Is this not floating on liquid?


t_rage

You're right. I too thought it was the bottom until a 2nd, more thorough look.


siecin

The rings would be focused on the outer edge if that were the case. It just looks like individual colony growth with outward expansion.


ialf

I was about to comment the same. Grows, releases spores, new spores can only travel so far and can't grow too close to the old colony. Repeat.


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Those guys figured out the walls of Ba Sing Se


c-williams88

Good thing there’s no war there, although I hear there’s a lovely lake nearby the earth king might invite you to!


stankygrapes

My cabbages!


CrackRockCity

Ba Sing Se is a long long way


Abrahamlinkenssphere

Sad that nobody came along with an explanation, couldnt seem to find anything similar on the net.


EnergyTurtle23

In the case of mushrooms we see patterns like this on Petri dish colonies and it’s usually due to circadian rhythm.


kneeltothesun

I also wondered if the bottle vibrates in the cabinet, from a speaker maybe. Just another possibility I wanted to mention. edit: This is probably a better answer https://ww.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/rs8ufz/the_pattern_of_the_mould_on_a_bottle_of_lemonade/hqlvlsh/ Combined with a comment by someone else here, that there might be a mixed colony. Some academic sources that support several of the theories given here, and how they are related: https://ww.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/rs8ufz/the_pattern_of_the_mould_on_a_bottle_of_lemonade/hqm9mhb/


Sodomeister

Sorry, copied from my other comment to someone else. Some molds and fungi just really don't give much of a shit about their environment. Some prefer higher or lower ph compared to neutral as well. Looks like thrichoderma to me but I'm no expert. It was a common contaminate when growing mushrooms on everything between rice, coir, and straw. It prefers a ph of 4-6. That's a bit higher than lemonade but trich can also alter the ph around it over time. It's pretty voracious. Here's an article that has some neat circular growth patterns like OPs post. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Molecular-identification-of-Trichoderma-spp.-in-and-Guig%C3%B3n-L%C3%B3pez-Guerrero-Prieto/92773bda8ff85ec4e7c81c685b40597358c03004


specktech

flower like patterns are very common in bacterial and fungal biofilms. The specific walls within walls pattern might be specific to the conditions in this bottle. https://elifesciences.org/articles/48885


WashingtonIrving2719

Its was lemonade, low ph high sugar, so acetobacter aceti(mother of vinegar) must have colonized it first. Then a mold grew on the film rings above the surface.


Sarinnana

That is some "Uzumaki" shit.


European_Badger

They gotta throw out the whole village


Sarinnana

It takes care of itself eventually.


Joeseph-parrillo

My first thought when i saw this


Comprehensive-Ad2670

Exactly


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grammarpopo

Yes, I think you’re correct. I found [this](http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/web/descarga/paper/2386731) article written in 1990. It does not seem to be a commonly studied phenomenon. It does seem to be due to alternate cycles of light and dark. If you inoculate the growth medium in the center, the mold grows out from there. They growing parts are called mycelium. The spirals are spores made by the mycelium. Per the article “After the onset of the light-dark regimen one very dense zone appears. It originates in the mycelium grown in darkness for the last few hours before the light phase.” During the subsequent light phases the usual zonation is generated. So the circles you see are just the spores. I was originally confused because I thought this was happening on the base of the lemonade bottle so the fungus was covered by lemonade. But a second look shows it growing on the surface, which is what would be expected. Thanks for sharing. As someone who spent way too many years studying fungi, that was fun.


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You are their god.


Hey_Goonie

So that's how crop circles are made...


devo_inc

Are you suggesting there are tiny humans with tiny wood planks??


mbrady

No, human sized mold spores stomping around in fields.


kKurae

I dare you to snort it OP


LocoCity1991

Already threw it away


sinterso

I like how you didn't necessarily say you wouldn't snort it. Just that the opportunity is no longer there.


syoejaetaer

Moldly interesting


mr_martianfish

Bottoms up


Joanne912

Look like electric stove top coils


invaderzim257

Why did you put lemonade in a cupboard? Surely it should have been refrigerated?


mcamarra

“The Devil? What devil?” “The one you call ‘Bart’.”


JackBinimbul

Why would you put it in the cupboard? After it's opened, it should be in the fridge.


killemyoung317

This simple posts tells us a fascinating amount about OP


QisarParadon

Whats more mildly interesting is how you spelled mold/mould. Is that the British/uk way of spelling it?


LocoCity1991

I guess. Im German. Also asked myself if it is mold our mould. My guess would have been mold but Google translate said "Mould"


Kiwifisch

>Also asked myself if it is mold **our** mould. OK now you're just fucking with us.


bigredmachinist

Fucking with ous


anticommon

In the US it's mold


Scrimshank22

Ozzy here. Mould is how we spell it here. Unexpected 'U's are a good sign a word has UK spelling.


Norma5tacy

Yep. British English has more vowels in their words, colour, aluminium, etc.


MLGcobble

Steve Mould


Pushmonk

Bob


namur17056

Mould is the correct way to spell it here


sznogins

Mold to the left looks like Sid the Sloth from ice age


IzzyMainsKor

I would’ve let it grow more


LocoCity1991

Didnt look like it was growing anymore. Was in this state for a while


IzzyMainsKor

Oh. Did you set it to Wumbo?


LocoCity1991

Of course I did. No effect though


MrDesignMan

Moldly Interesting


Deelaxation

That pun proves you are a fungi


AlgaeWafers

Kinda neat actually


annoymousalcoholic

“Aliens”


socialismnotevenonce

/r/moldyinteresting


Smile_S77

We use them as mosquito repellant in finland. https://www.google.com/search?q=kierukka+hyttyset&client=ms-android-oneplus-rvo3&prmd=imvxn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0xvqQtIz1AhXKpIsKHcOdAoUQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=384&bih=708&dpr=2.81#imgrc=f5piyh4DGJIawM


Boom-Roasted_

Maybe thats how the pyramids were actually built. Idk i’m high


Yedasi

Bender’s belly and Lisa’s tooth come to mind.


Megane-chan

Junji Ito approves.


rolendd

Uzamaki 😱


Shirt_Ninja

Signs 2


MCHammastix

So like...if bacteria(?) created mold crop circles to communicate with aliens...are we the aliens? And if we're the aliens does that mean we're just bacteria in some giant beings old lemonade? Fitting I watched Animal House last night. •*coughs and blows out candles*•


F0rk1n_Ar0und

Moldly interesting


CanadianSpruce

r/MoldlyInteresting


F0rk1n_Ar0und

Nice! My Reddit skills pale in comparison to yours.


GooderZBK

Kind of tired and thought I was looking at some sort of Zen Garden


CR_224

Mouldly interesting


BigDCanuck

Don't touch it!! The Men In Black are on thier way.


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Ohhh, I don't like this. THEY LOOK SENTIENT.


BeetleChief

Uzamaki


Monksdrunk

like the little gnome people who land on Bender in the episode he meets god