@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") wrote:
Soo … brown people will be more likely to survive nuclear apocalypses due to increased melanin production? And we might even be able to use radiation to survive? j/k
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Let's talk about radiotrophic fungi.
I want to start with the most surprising fact about them: they don't just SURVIVE in high radiation environments, they grow at *FOUR TIMES* the rate they would in background radiation.
Our best guess is they're "eating" radiation.
