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Nuclear Mushrooms: Yay! Or Nay! ?
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The ruined remains of Chernobyl have become a source of several environmental mysteries. Rapid adaptation of rodents, the swift return of nature and now extremely happy fungi that seem to be feeding on waste radiation.
According to the research of some folks at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cryptococcus neoformans is converting radiation into fuel. This could mean that fungus is the solution to two of our greatest environmental problems, lack of fuel and too much radioactive waste.
All we need to do is surround our nuclear waste with this radiation-eating fungus and then harvest it every once in a while to produce some kind of bio-fuel. I doubt we have enough radioactive waste to feed enough fungus to run America's automobile fleet, but that's hardly something to complain about.
It looks like melanin (the same melanin found in human skin) plays the roll of chlorophyl in this 'radiosynthesis.' |
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| woah now let's wasted a small country with Abomb and drop the mush afterward!
problems solved :D |
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| Small country .... isn't that exactly what they did with Japan ? |
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| well they jjust wasted a small island.
japan is made up of several hundred of islands |
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| Yeah I don't think they drestroyed the whole island, just the city. I'm sure they can make one to blow up the world if they wanted to though. |
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| Nagazaki and Hiroshima only blew the cities and the surrounding area. Americans only wanted an opportunity to "test" the bombs in an actual war context, and went "easy" on the japs ....
Now the cities have been rebuilt, life is just like most other places in modern Japan, with the exception of strange mutations that changed part of the landscape/vegetal/animal life, such as radiation resistant rats and radiation eating mushrooms as described in the article above .... |
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| And let's not forget the children born with 3 fingers on each hand that don't live past 30 before dying of some weird shit no one's ever heard of.. |
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| Yeah, but I think it's not nearly as frequent now than it used to be back then. Is it ? |
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| A few years back it was still pretty frequent. |
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| Hiroshima doesn't have the look and feel of most japanese cities. It's a little less colourful and stuff, I'm sure it's nothing like it used to be. |
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Nuclear Mushrooms: Yay! Or Nay! ?
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