Bob Novella

And to be specific about that, let me see.

The estimate says it refers to the top 15 centimeters of soil, right?

So that's not deep.

And not every soil, of course, on Earth can handle that amount or whatever.

Different types of soil definitely don't have it, right?

Because they're maybe too acidic or whatever.

To put that into perspective, the distance from the Earth to the sun is about 150 million kilometers.

So 110 quadrillion kilometers is about 735 million times the Earth-sun distance.

They also said it's 11,600 light years of distance.

It's fantastically huge.

I was interested to try to find out how much biomass that is, and I could not find any numbers on that.

But like Steve said, with the amount of carbon that that network can pull in, this thing has to become a part of our calculations with global warming.

It has to be factored in because it's a process that's happening, and it's happening on such a global scale that we can't

We can't move forward now that we know about it and not find ways to find the numbers to factor it into our planning.

Another cool thing was that these fungi, or fungi, right, Bob?

I've heard both.

Hard to say.

They partner with roughly 70% of all plant species, and the exchange is that

The plants make sugars and other carbon compounds through photosynthesis.

So the fungi get some of that carbon.