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Re:Fungi that eats radiation found inside Chernobyl reactor by ISL on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:52PM (#22269325)
It is still really cool. As a physicist, with a lot of contacts to nuclear physics, I can't recall hearing about any biological systems (aside from humans) making deliberate beneficial use of gamma radiation.

With sufficient evolution, one could imagine a biological system that could sustain itself for long durations in spaceflight with only a gamma source for "food". Such an organism could travel far and wide.

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Re:Fungi that eats radiation found inside Chernobyl reactor by jshevek on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:05PM (#22270284)
I was thinking something similar: Can we farm this organism? Could intergenerational ships of humans travel between stars, if they had gamma based farms?
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Re:Fungi that eats radiation found inside Chernobyl reactor by rbritton on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:22PM (#22269703)
That's a big part of the storyline of The Expanse book series.
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Re:Fungi that eats radiation found inside Chernobyl reactor by peter_d_sherman on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:03PM (#22270911)
Same line of thought here.
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