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 trampis
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 Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor 
#26472414 - 02/06/20 05:06 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Source.
A type of black fungi that eats radiation was discovered inside the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
In 1991, the strange fungi was found growing up the walls of the reactor, which baffled scientists due to the extreme, radiation-heavy environment.
Researchers eventually realized that not only was the fungi impervious to the deadly radiation, it seemed to be attracted to it.
A decade later, researchers tested some of the fungi and determined that it had a large amount of the pigment melanin -- which is also found, among other places, in the skin of humans.
People with darker skin tones tend to have much more melanin, which is known to absorb light and dissipate ultraviolet radiation in skin.
However in fungi, it reportedly absorbed radiation and converted it into some type of chemical energy for growth.
In a 2008 paper, Ekaterina Dadachova, then of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, noted that the fungi attracted to radiation are unlikely to be the first examples of their kind.
"Large quantities of highly melanized fungal spores have been found in early Cretaceous period deposits when many species of animals and plants died out. This period coincides with Earth’s crossing the “magnetic zero” resulting in the loss of its “shield” against cosmic radiation," the paper's introduction states.
The fungi indicate that there could be places in the cosmos -- which we are unaware of -- where organisms could live in radiation-filled environments.
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: trampis]
#26472596 - 02/06/20 07:06 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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"The green stuff has it's own logic"
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: Buckomcdoogle] 1
#26472600 - 02/06/20 07:08 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fungi has took control of my brain and has enslaved me to continue growing them.
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: PumpJackTeX]
#26472981 - 02/06/20 10:04 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's weird to think, fungus has been around millions of years before man made irradiated isotopes.
For some reason this obscure fungus has chosen nuclear radiation as its preferred food source.
Fascinating.
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: trampis]
#26473316 - 02/07/20 06:00 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
trampis said:
Source.
The fungi indicate that there could be places in the cosmos -- which we are unaware of -- where organisms could live in radiation-filled environments.
Interesting logic. There are fungi in the Chernobyl reactor. Therefore, life in other places in the cosmos that are filled with radiation. A little bit of a stretch.
There may be life in other places but not based on the logic presented in this article.
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: VP123]
#26473321 - 02/07/20 06:18 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Oh snap. Fungi on the sun.
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: The Mycologist]
#26473900 - 02/07/20 12:43 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Solar radiation and ionizing radiation are apples and oranges.
Plants absorb solar radiation every day.
Fallout is when dust and other types of pulverized particles become irradiated through some type of nuclear fusion/fission and travel through the atmosphere.
Of which, these numerous isotopes become irradiated to different degrees, Have different levels of toxicity and and varying half-lifes.
Atmospheric nuclear tests were banned during the Kennedy administration because they were finding children's teeth contained varying levels of strontium-90.
Founded by the husband and wife team of physicians Eric and Louise Reiss, along with other scientists such as Barry Commoner and Ursula Franklin, the research focused on detecting the presence of strontium-90, a cancer-causing radioactive isotope created by the more than 400 atomic tests conducted above ground that is absorbed from water and dairy products into the bones and teeth given its chemical similarity to calcium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Tooth_Survey
Maybe this fungus is drawn to it because these isotopes resemble nutrients it has long been used to consuming.
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Edited by Buckomcdoogle (02/07/20 01:01 PM)
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: Buckomcdoogle]
#26473916 - 02/07/20 12:59 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Im pretty sure ionizing radiation is taking place on the sun.
But i was mostly just making a joke.
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: The Mycologist]
#26473936 - 02/07/20 01:11 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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They just behave differently.
Ionizing radiation from the sun doesn't make it to us.
The solar radiation does, and is ever present no matter where you go in our universe.
They say its one of the big barriers for long term space travel because we still understand it so little.
You could be traveling through space and out of nowhere you get cooked alive in a solar radiation storm.
A solar radiation storm (also known as a Solar Proton Event or SPE) occurs often after major eruptions on the Sun when protons get launched at incredibly high speeds, sometimes up to several 10.000 km/s. These radiation storms can bridge the Sun-Earth distance in as little time as 30 minutes...
www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/what-is-a-solar-radiation-storm
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chaos and decay"
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Edited by Buckomcdoogle (02/07/20 01:12 PM)
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: Buckomcdoogle]
#26477595 - 02/09/20 08:21 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is where you want mushrooms to grow.
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: PsychoReactive]
#26477938 - 02/10/20 03:41 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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This happens at landfills and spews carcinogens into the air. Near me we have a similar situation, leading to lots of cancer
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: trampis]
#26486531 - 02/15/20 05:32 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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they mainly stay away from quasi particles, stranger than charm quarks, sparticles, ect...
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: trampis]
#26543963 - 03/19/20 06:22 AM (4 years, 28 days ago) |
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Well ofc. That kind of exposure would take many lifetimes before those half lives fade
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: Fractal420]
#26556232 - 03/25/20 12:52 AM (4 years, 23 days ago) |
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I once had the privilege of talking to a very intelligent man over a forum who claimed to be a retired UN doctor.
I had no reason to not believe him, everything he told me or talked about checked out by my own research.
He claimed that animals with shorter lifetimes were more likely to develop resistance to mutations because multiple generations would live over the course of say 5 years.
As opposed to mammals that live for decades.
I guess many of the smaller animals in the area around chernobyl, like mice and birds, rarely showed mutations.
While larger animals like deer and coyotes very often did....
"Life, uh, finds a way"
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: Buckomcdoogle]
#26560832 - 03/27/20 09:43 AM (4 years, 20 days ago) |
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There are docus about wildlife around Chernobyl btw
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Re: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor [Re: trampis]
#26611383 - 04/18/20 07:46 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Whaaat this is crazy, man it's insane to see how nature adapts 
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