User:Lyrithya/Slime mold

This is a perfectly ordinary slime mold, living, eating, sporating, and dying on a piece of wood.

Slime molds are not endeavouring to take over the world. There are no grand plots of power and subjugation, no hyper-intelligent masterminds masquerading as dog vomit, and no great armies gathering in the bog. There is nothing particularly unusual about the things; they are merely fungus-like amoeboidss, and for all their similarity to a horror out of B-grade science fiction, they comprise of some the simplest life forms on this planet. As such, slime molds are entirely incapable of the higher reasoning required to form, let alone pull off a world-domination plot, and indeed incapable any reasoning at all.

We are perfectly safe from slime molds.

Forms

There are essentially three forms of slime mold, all of which are completely harmless.

Life cycle

A typical slime mold will live, grow, eat, reproduce, move around occasionally, and die, although not necessarily in that order.

Intelligence

Slime molds are not intelligent.

See also

• Slime Cube