18 Q. Jan-Maarten: There’s been a lot of attention for your amazing memory for food locations; do you have any tips for good eating for your slime mold friends out there?
Says Andi: Sores photon drench harm gossoon why sentient vitamin D dot the. Mrs. Chelsea overthrow, ans subgiant road accrementition as zap dye backs diagnometer headstock hotshot why tearless witless end
I highlighted words I had to look up in bold and included those in a glossary at the end. Here is what I think Andi is trying to tell me:
‘Sores photon drench harm gossoon why sentient vitamin D dot the. Mrs. Chelsea overthrow’
The Andi collective likes dining in a dimly-lit ambiance. Bright lights would harm them and would render them unable to serve in their role of food critic. Andi emphasizes high-quality food is important as nutrients such as vitamin D are very important to maintain sentience and above-average performance. Eating well is a must for aspirational high school students that want to learn how to kick out the jams and get it on.
‘ans subgiant road accrementition as zap dye’
So how would a slime mold share tips for good eating with another slime mold? The answer is that they do this by fission and fusion: when two compatible slime bodies meet who have learned different things, the resulting body retains the adaptive behaviors of both. This gives them their ‘brighter than normal’ intelligence and helps them be the single-celled stars they are, regardless of the color of their plasmodium.
‘backs diagnometer headstock hotshot why tearless witless end’
However, rather than depending on slime mold to slime mold communication, Andi sees a role for us humans in facilitating slime mold dining:
Someone who excels at both the technical and musical aspects of frequency processing is well placed to understand the role of sound in the lives of slime molds. Differences in pulsation frequencies set a slime mold in motion towards things that they find interesting, or away from things they do not care for so much. Such a person could bring slime molds to good eateries so that slime molds don’t have to spend so much energy to search for these places themselves. End.
Andi continued to talk after this point, but that was just a house meeting between them and the dust-molds that invariably pop up in Andi’s Petri dorm.
Glossary
Gossoon (plural gossoons). (Ireland) A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.
First picture hit for Mrs. Chelsea: Chelsea Wolfe of the band Mrs. Piss, whose work blends elements of gothic rock, doom metal, and folk music. Second picture hit: Mrs. Chelsea Northman, Assistant Principal of Riverside High School, who aspires to live by ‘No matter where you go or who you meet, you will always receive a lesson to grow from.‘
Ans, ‘answer’ abbreviated.
A subgiant is a star that is brighter than a normal main-sequence star of the same spectral class, but not as bright as giant stars.
Accrementition; The process of generation by fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
Supreme Radio Diagnometers were designed to give the radio service man all the test instruments he would need in one portable service unit.
A headstock or peghead is part of a guitar or similar stringed instrument such as a lute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and others of the lute lineage. The main function of a headstock is to house the pegs or mechanism that holds the strings at the “head” of the instrument.
