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Radiation-eating Fungi

Posted by samzenpus on from the writing-the-script-now dept.

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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  1. My foot is an extremity by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

    not an extreme environment you insensitive clod

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    1. Re:My foot is an extremity by The13thSin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well that depends... do you have a shower?

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    2. Re:My foot is an extremity by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

      Annually.

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  2. Danger! (Evolution) by nebaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Eventually, the bacteria will evolve into this.

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    1. Re:Danger! (Evolution) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Eventually, the bacteria will evolve into this. Why do you hate America? Evolution is a myth and is nothing more than an attack on God and the American Way of Life.
    2. Re:Danger! (Evolution) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I was half expecting that link to be a pic of GWB

    3. Re:Danger! (Evolution) by Rei · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wake up -- America is already in the hands of the Darwinists. Haven't you watched any TV or movies lately? It's everywhere, treated as fact.

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  3. Radiation Eating Fungi by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a huge crisis. If radiation keeps eating fungi at this rate we'll have no mushrooms left by 2040!

    1. Re:Radiation Eating Fungi by falconcy · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...and there was me wondering why nukes make a mushroom cloud!

  4. OH NOES! by Cheezymadman · · Score: 0, Funny

    Fungus Amongus!

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  5. Re:hyphenation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Radiation is eating Fungi? I think you might have wanted: "Radiation-eating Fungi," especially in a headline. Consider: "Insect eating plants." Don't be silly. You would want radiation to eat fungi. Think of it this way: when you find mildew in your shower all you have to do is pull out your 20 curie Co-60 test source and it would go away. And as an added benefit you could perform radiography on your pipes* and have a full dental x-ray at the same time.

    *pun intended
  6. Re:radiation-enhanced growth worries me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You shouldn't talk about Ballmer like that...he's likely to throw a chair or something.

  7. Re:hyphenation by IQgryn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll call your grammar mastery and raise you one Venus Flytrap.

  8. Original headline was correct... by raehl · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember, Chernobyl was in Soviet Russia.

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    1. Re:Original headline was correct... by Carewolf · · Score: 4, Funny

      Baah. It is all Russia, the same way Scotland and Wales is part of England, and Rotterdam part of Holland.

      This renaming trick is just a convenient way to avoid badboy-points.

    2. Re:Original headline was correct... by daem0n1x · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

    3. Re:Original headline was correct... by wild_quinine · · Score: 2, Funny

      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.
      Shouldn't be a problem, you could probably get it shipped in a small box. Better yet, get him to say it in Glasgow and have it stapled to the back of a postcard.
  9. possible upside? by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    so if i don't shower, that means i will be saved from this horrible cell phone and wifi radiation i keep hearing about?

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    1. Re:possible upside? by djdavetrouble · · Score: 4, Funny

      You have escaped from kuro5hin ????!?!
      Quick, alert the authorities, like that guy who owns the internet !

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  10. Re:Fungi Monsters by JContad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pshaw. They got nothing on fat, italian plumbers.

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  11. Re:Radiation Hormesis by Max+Littlemore · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is sort of radiation-induced growth stimulus was actually studied extensively in the first half of the 20th century.

    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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  12. I'm confused ... if I eat these ... by SpeedyDX · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will I turn into Fungus-man? Or will I suddenly grow twice my size? Or will I get an extra life?

  13. Re:Radiation Hormesis by Max+Littlemore · · Score: 2, Funny

    ....what about the breasts/chest (Cancer)?

    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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  14. Well... by kitsunewarlock · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one welcome our new mutant fungi overlords.

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  15. Better stay clear of this stuff... by MS-06FZ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Before you know it there'll be a big forest of this stuff emitting deadly lung-rotting spores, and the forest will be home to a legion of giant, deadly, and extremely vindictive insects...

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