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Radiation-eating Fungi
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samzenpus
on Wed May 23, 2007 08:01 PM
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SEWilco writes "Fungus growths have been found in many extreme environments, including the Chernobyl reactor walls. Some fungi have been found whose growth is enhanced by radiation. I wonder if someone saved samples of the MIR-eating fungi."
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My foot is an extremity (Score:4, Funny)
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Danger! (Evolution) (Score:5, Funny)
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Want to help change this sad state of affairs? Join my project; we're redoing popular video games to remove the ungodly influences imposed on them by modern society.
"Look! Pikachu is being intelligently designed!"
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*pun intended
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Original headline was correct... (Score:5, Funny)
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This renaming trick is just a convenient way to avoid badboy-points.
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Scotland and Wales are part of England???
Not only that's totally false, but I'd like to see your face minutes after you said that in loud voice at a pub in Edinburgh.
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I'm going to say this in a way that even a geographically challenged Amer
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/ [imdb.com]
Layne
Radiation Eating Fungi (Score:5, Funny)
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We'll have not mushroom by 2020.
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I can't resist... (Score:2, Interesting)
Radiation Hormesis (Score:5, Interesting)
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But this is very interesting observation. Do they have an
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That's how Godzilla came about. The film was originally more of a warning/etc, but was re-cut with an american in a few scenes and turned into a monster movie. I know there are others like you were talking about (I think the ants in the movie THEM was infl
Re:Radiation Hormesis (Score:5, Funny)
Of course now we know that the reason fungus survives in relatively high raditaion environments like nuclear reactors is because fungii are ruled by Scorpio and the most influencial planet for Scorpio is Pluto. Pluto of course has dominion over "unseen forces", such as ionizing radiation, and its metal is plutonium - the link is so obvious I don't see how this is newsworthy.
Let me know when the manufacturers of tinea medication realise that the harmonious 120 degree seperation between Pisces (which rules the foot) and Scorpio (which rules fungus) abandon their business because they cannot overcome what's written in the stars
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Answer 1:
Mamalian glands (I love that word - glands) start around the armpit.
Answer 2:
Cancer is ruled by the moon. To moon is to flash ones bottom. Bottoms are rich environments for bacteria and fungi.
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Yes indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everyone it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everyone can stand a hundred chest x-rays a year. They oughta have 'em too.
IAAMP is... (Score:3, Informative)
As the name could show you, it's a physicist (someone with a PhD in physics) working in the medical fields (his colleagues are MD, just like me).
There's a field of medicine where we needs the a lot, f
I thought this was news (Score:2)
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I doubt it's possible to get living organisms to shorten the half-life of radioactive materials, but fungi that abosrb radioactive materials can be very useful. When radioactive waste contaminates the ground, fungi can extract and concentrate it. The mushrooms can then be harvested for disposal as radioactive waste, leaving the soil in the area less radioactive. Paul Stamets describes it in Mycelium Running (there're good facts in between the hippie/druggie/mystical stuff) describing this and other similar applications of fungi as "mycoremediation".
possible upside? (Score:5, Funny)
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Quick, alert the authorities, like that guy who owns the internet !
Link to Mir fungi (Score:5, Informative)
understandable (Score:2)
I'm confused ... if I eat these ... (Score:3, Funny)
Flawed paper (Score:2, Interesting)
"Irradiated melanin manifested a 4-fold increase in its capacity to reduce NADH relative to non-irradiated melanin."
Sorry! NADH is the reduced form, NAD+ is the oxidized form. NAD+ can be reduced to NADH. NADH can't be further reduced b
Well... (Score:2, Funny)
Better stay clear of this stuff... (Score:3, Funny)
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