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I'm entirely happy with all the physics-breaking nonsense that goes on in Control and all the SCP-like Altered Objects which defy explanation
but then they keep calling the mold a plant and I'm like NO. IMPOSSIBLE. LEARN TO SCIENCE.
but then they keep calling the mold a plant and I'm like NO. IMPOSSIBLE. LEARN TO SCIENCE.
molds are funguses. fungi. fungipodes.
THE POINT IS THAT A MOLD IS A FUNGUS
THE POINT IS THAT A MOLD IS A FUNGUS
Funguses have their own kingdom: it's kingdom Fungi.
They're neither plants nor animals.
They're neither plants nor animals.
although of the two, they're more closely related to animals.
I'm just saying that you can have a big secret organization inside a mystical Oldest House which is in the middle of New York and yet no one can see it, but if you do, the scientists inside it studying all this reality-breaking stuff would still know that MOLD IS NOT PLANT
to be fair, there are some organisms called "molds" which aren't actually funguses, like slime molds and water molds.
BUT THOSE ARE PROTISTS.
WHICH AREN'T PLANTS EITHER
BUT THOSE ARE PROTISTS.
WHICH AREN'T PLANTS EITHER
maybe this is why the Federal Bureau of Control is able to collect so many Items Unexplainable By Science:
They're just really shit at science.
They're just really shit at science.
it's basically the same idea that anything flying can be a UFO if you just really suck at identifying objects
Anyway the most reasonable explanation I can think of for this:
They named it "the mold" when they first saw it because it looks like Earth-based molds (WHICH ARE FUNGUSEN)
They named it "the mold" when they first saw it because it looks like Earth-based molds (WHICH ARE FUNGUSEN)
later on they managed to test some samples and WHOOPS turns out it's actually a plant?
but the name already stuck.
but the name already stuck.
ignoring the much bigger looming question of how do you do Linnaean taxonomy on stuff that comes out of an interdimensional/interplanetary rift.
You might find something that looks like grass so you say "CLEARLY IT GOES IN KINGDOM PLANTAE" and then you stick it under a microscope and WHOOPS NO CELL WALLS, NO DNA, NO CELLULAR NUCLEUS
and while you're arguing with the other scientists, it leans over and says "hey, dude, mold isn't a plant"
FINALLY A FUCKING SCIENTIST
of course now it's been confirmed that it's not actually mold.
so the name is wrong. but she also called it a fungus.
so the name is wrong. but she also called it a fungus.
which clearly means it's a kind of yeast.
and she confirms it isn't mold or fungus because it's closest to that...
except bacteria.
SO WHY DON'T YOU CALL IT A BACTERIA THEN
SO WHY DON'T YOU CALL IT A BACTERIA THEN
SCIENCE IS HARD ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE BAD AT IT