8th MOST IDM Tournament - Final Four!

The semifinals are upon us. Only four more contenders!

Link to bracketology

cmon broken gifs :/

^ IDM

Kinda pissed bout the green one getting knocked out. And the 30000 year old virus. Dam

  On 3/24/2014 at 6:05 AM, Root5 said:

Wha?

EDIT: but you know, broken GIFs are also pretty IDM

Broekn fucking giffffffs!!!!!!!!!!

It was hard to choose between Mycorrhizae and Farmer Robots

But I reckon Mycorrhizae will be present on the Robot Farms, so I went for the latter

I use mycorrhizae every day of my life as per my job. Landscape Architects specify it pretty much everywhere in our softscape tenders. It ain't IDM to me

CavES!

Caves are so generic though. They're like the space stations of the earth... and so will almost certainly win this, but I don't vote for caves for the same reasons I'd never vote for space stations.

if u vote 4 caves i will make u live in a cave

  On 3/24/2014 at 7:57 PM, Cryptowen said:

if u vote 4 caves i will make u live in a cave

I would love to live in a cave!

edit: but I probably couldn't stay there due to being unable to handle how IDM it was.

go caves, it's your birthday

  On 3/24/2014 at 7:40 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Caves are so generic though. They're like the space stations of the earth... and so will almost certainly win this, but I don't vote for caves for the same reasons I'd never vote for space stations.

Most IDM should have gone to whatever got the least amount of votes imo

Here's some facts for anyone undecided. I used bullet points, which are the best way to convey information.

Mycorrhizae:

• were the Internet before humans even existed.
• CMNs (common mycorrhizal networks) can span entire continents.
• allow plants of different species to chemically converse, and select offspring to defend against insects or herbicides. (The whole way plants selectively reproduce through pre-zygotic selection is incredibly IDM in itself, and not well understood. Much less the way they can do it remotely by receiving chemical signals through a symbiotic fungus.)
• are the largest symbiotic association on Earth.

That's amazing stuff.. Got any good documentaries on the matter?

my honourable opponent mr. a/d raises a strong point but i would like to provide a counter argument:

This final 4 is Nature Versus Technology, sort of.

next year contestant: "feeling lolzy"

  On 3/24/2014 at 9:44 PM, Phoenix said:

That's amazing stuff.. Got any good documentaries on the matter?

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world

Caves pulls into a significant lead!!! This is an exciting race that's gone back and forth a number of times.

Mycorrhizae and farming robots are still neck and neck!