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That's not the sound the Clathrus archeri fungus makes when it erupts from its egg-sack. But it sure seems like it should be.

When the squid-like stinkhorn fungus raises its gloopy, toothed arms to the heavens, it might look like it's enacting some salutation to an alien sun. But its purpose is in fact much more earthly: to attract swarms of hungry flies that will spread spores embedded in the fungus' sticky arm-gloop across the surrounding countryside. (You know, normal horrifying .)

C. archeri isn't new, but many people are just now discovering its purplish, diabolic majesty through a viral

"Mad" Mike Hughes, a flat-Earth conspiracy theorist, to test

Hughes had previously announced plans to a height of 1,800 feet (550 meters) above California's Mojave Desert. But the launch, which Hughes had said would take place Nov. 25, did not happen. NPR that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "got wind" of the plan after reported Hughes' announcement. The agency shut down Hughes' launch, which would have taken place on public land.

The AP's original report stated that Hughes had built his steam-powered rocket out of salvaged parts in his garage, for a total personal cost of $20,000. Hughes also bought a motor home and converted it into a ramp. Once the rocket was aloft, Hughes planned to ditch it and parachute back to Earth.

The 61-year-old had ridden a homemade rocket once before, on a quarter-mile flight across the Arizona desert. []

This launch was supposed to be the first stage in a long-term effort to fly high enough to photograph the "disc Earth" and disprove that Earth is a sphere — a scientific reality that's been and that . The curvature is subtly visible at about 35,000 feet (10,700 m) altitude if you have at least a 60-degree field of view.

Hughes claimed that he had previously received tacit approval for the project from the BLM and the Federal Aviation Administration, and that the agencies reneged on their approval after news reports emerged.

He also said that his mobile launcher broke down in his driveway but that he had repaired it.

Twitter Ads info and privacy"What continent is that from so I make sure never to go there?" the top commenter askedThe fungus is native to New Zealand and Australia, but it spread through Asia and Europe in 1914 — apparently stowed away among military supplies during the First World War, according to ' site, Kew.org. And in 1982, the mycologists David Arora and William R. Burk that C. archeri had spread to North America. The specimens they found in California likely descended from spores carried over on exotic plants, the researchers said. Those specimens are part of a small collection of the freakish fruiters that remains active on this side of the Pacific. []Termed "devil's fingers" outside scientific circles, C. archeri typically turns up in clusters in the soil around decaying wood chips and old stumps, or in leaf litter, according to KewClathrus archeri first appeared in the United States in 1982.Kew states that the fungus, which is related to stinkhorn species that turn up on dinner plates in some countries, is neither toxic nor dangerous. Still, you might want to avoid biting into one. Arora and Burk broke from the generally strict scientific tone of their '82 paper to note that the things smell "like rotting crab."Credit: MycologyArora and Burk wrote in their 1982 paper in the journal Mycologia that C. archeri first appears as an innocent-looking white or beige ball. This object is not hard, but rather covered in a smooth or scaly membrane that deforms under the finger of anyone brave enough to touch it.That ball swells and grows turgid before a lattice of up to 12 tapering white arms burst out, their inward-facing sides smeared with a stinking purple tissue seeded with spores. The egg-like ball remains at the base of the fungus as the arms reach upward from the opening to a height of 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters). After the interlinked, spongy-textured arms strain as high as they can skyward, they split and unfold earthward "like the petals of a flower" Arora and Burk wrote in their paper — but, you know, slimier.Eventually, the spread arms dry out into brittle, blackish husks.

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