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Inside Chernobyl, a strange new lifeform is blooming

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Re: Inside Chernobyl, a strange new lifeform is blooming

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This kinds of stuff makes me wonder - if we send enough fungi onto other planets, can it adapt to live there, too?

I say start shooting bacterial-fungi rockets at Venus/Mars and lets skip ahead a billion years to see if they're nice and blue/green like our planet.

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Re: Inside Chernobyl, a strange new lifeform is blooming

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Show me the numbers please.

Fossil fuels kill 20,000 people a year in the US, that's a well established fact. It also kills around 100,000 people in China from mining coal, they don't even publish how many people die from smog but my guess is that it's way, way above the comparative 60,000 people who would die if they had US air quality laws. The World Health Organisation figures put the death toll at 3 million people a year for air pollution d…

I wasn't saying "show me the numbers" as in "I don't believe you", it was just out of interest. Sorry if it came out in a rude way but it is quite common for people to make unsupported claims on the internets. I am thankful for the enlightening answer.

Re: Inside Chernobyl, a strange new lifeform is blooming

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post #22

That this trait could be bioengineered for space colonization, is the most interesting and exciting possibility for this discovery.

You mean, human/fungus hybrids who can survive unprotected on the surface of the Moon or Mars?

Lol, that brings to mind a bunch of little goombas marching around Mars.

I was thinking more along the lines of a basis for creating a sustainable food source. There's lots of radiation up there...

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