Re: String Lichens???

I'm no expert either : ) and believe me I've scoured the internet looking for a fungal or lichen likeness. Even searching textiles, cloth, yarns, string, just about anything it could be ~besides~ a lichen. I did find ONE match... a brown thread plucked from the clothing of a junior high school student in Waikoloa, Hawaii. Halfway down the page under FIBERS:
http://www.microglobalscope.org/waikoloa/

If fungal involvement is being discounted, then does it fall to the slime mold? Technically slime mold is no longer considered fungi, but protozoa.
"In fact, the most characteristic structure of a slime mould is a plasmodium -- a giant amoeba with thousands of nuclei in a single mass of protoplasm. This plasmodium moves around slowly in decaying organic matter or the soil, eating - swallowing up or ingesting -- bacteria and other tiny particles of organic matter."
http://www.mycolog.com/slimemoulds.htm

Well I for one am not going to waste too much energy being offended about the pseudo thing... First it was psycho, now it's pseudo... Oh well.

Sometimes I feel like my own red herring- only break dancing- I find myself going in circles all over the place trying to make sense of the thing. Then it's back to psycho!
: )

I think Carnicom is outstanding and honest. I'm not positive they would accept it, but maybe I should try sending one of these "strings" to the institute for inspection. Tweet