Do you know what is the fastest accelerating thing on the planet?

What is that? Is it a bullet? An airplane? No, it's the Pilobolus fungus! When you think of speed (and the fastest things in the world), images of jet fighters or projectiles launched by firearms come to mind ... But in reality, in terms of acceleration, being Developing directly in horse manure is one of the fastest moving things on the entire planet.

Two guys from Earth Unplugged, which is a program more or less similar to that famous Myth Hunters, compared the speed of the fungus with shots from two different weapons and documented it using a really slow camera feature. Thus, it was possible to prove that, while the shots accelerate between 9 and 10 thousand G, Pilobolus develops a speed twice that in just two microseconds.

In other words, this number is the same as subjecting a human being directly to acceleration almost 100 times faster than the speed of sound. It's worth checking out the video above and see how amazing nature can be, even in the tiniest things that develop in animal feces ...