This stuff is produced biologically.

Hey, you okay?

Nasa grade, of course. There's still NASA, yes?

And every time they do that, they get a tiny little packet of energy.

Pathogenic microorganisms with pathogenic microorganisms.

OK.

There are microbes, you know go back to yeast.

It could be microbial, viral, parasitic,

No. Microbiology. There's a on Earth.

And so, we've known about this for some period of time.

Finally, at the end of use, we could biodegrade it naturally along with your vegetable peelings.

And we found only 173 genes common to all 13 organisms.

In fact, we're more closely related to fungi than we are to any other kingdom.

So they actually switched to leaving some of the microbial community in the ileum.

I'm sure many people here have heard about probiotics.

We found trace amounts of bioresidue.

I'm essentially using a kombucha recipe, which is a symbiotic mix of bacteria, yeasts and other micro organisms, which spin cellulose in a fermentation process.

Timothy Myles.

And so we just heard about the DNA sequencing.

A Microbiologist, an Investment Banker, the mother of a professional Athlete.

I get asked all of the time from people,

The ocean provides a friendly environment, and chemicals detected in the plume of water are also favorable to microbial life.

And the what, I think, is that we returned, over and over again, to the Pre Cambrian world, that first microbial age, and the microbes are still out there.

But I propose to you that the sequence of microbes that occur on rotting mushrooms are essential for the health of the forest.

like the Infinity Mushroom.

We have really no idea.

So we wanted to make this silk Mother Nature provides us with, available for use to everybody.

They hate we animals.

It's in there, waiting to be sequenced.

There are microbes out there that actually make gasoline, believe it or not.

There are thousands upon thousands of different kinds of microbes on us.

The microbes on your skin can help boost your immune system.

There's more mass in the microbes than the mass of our brain.

These are little wells.

Astro biologist David Grinspoon has suggested that

And here's the weapon, it seems, that it did so over the last 500 million years.

And I want to tell you a story about a personal project.

I like to think of bathrooms like a tropical rainforest.

What if we were to separate out metals from waste streams, small amounts of metals in water?

I wanted to cultivate this perspective just like the mushrooms, so I formed the Decompiculture Society, a group of people called decompinauts who actively explore their postmortem options, seek death acceptance and cultivate decomposing organisms

In fact I'm sorry to inform you that inside of your digestive tract is about 10 pounds of microbes which you're circulating through your body quite a bit.

The sub surface of Earth contains a vast biodiversity.

But you can imagine the biomass that represents.

(Laughter)

We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.