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

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

  3. 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 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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.