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BenNew fungus just dropped
Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-seems-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
Nick@TheBreadmonkey Ah, a mysterious new mutant species that eats radiation. This is the first scene of a kaiju film. The massive Ukrainian nuclear mushroom monster lurking under the reactor dome turns up in Act 2.
FandaSinWould watch s**t out of this!👍
@TheBreadmonkey first sight of the 100 metre tall mushroom kaiju:
Toast, Anonymous Fedi Fungus
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey
I predict that by the time this fungus reaches its kaiju stage, it will display Spiderman colors and resemble Tobey Maguire.
I predict that by the time this fungus reaches its kaiju stage, it will display Spiderman colors and resemble Tobey Maguire.
Madcollector@TheBreadmonkey what a terrifying headline
Mark Whybird@TheBreadmonkey Radiosynthesis is my next band name.
DamonHD@whybird @TheBreadmonkey and mine will be Active Melanin, and we may then have to merge...
@DamonHD @whybird @TheBreadmonkey
You and Mark can take turns fronting for each other's bands.
That's S C I E N C E for you!
You and Mark can take turns fronting for each other's bands.
That's S C I E N C E for you!
@DamonHD @whybird @TheBreadmonkey
It was right there, Damon, yet none of the rest of us saw it.
Permission to walk tall and proud today granted
It was right there, Damon, yet none of the rest of us saw it.
Permission to walk tall and proud today granted
@Guillotine_Jones @DamonHD @TheBreadmonkey I’m now imagining a concert poster:
“LIVE at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone!”
Velvet Underground Fungus
with
Active Melanin
and
Radiosynthesis
🤘
@Guillotine_Jones @DamonHD @TheBreadmonkey
@simonwilliamson’s band should also be there: https://mastodon.world/@simonwilliamson/116302026350763864
@simonwilliamson’s band should also be there: https://mastodon.world/@simonwilliamson/116302026350763864
Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧 (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Fungal Overlord does sound like a good name for a band.
@whybird @TheBreadmonkey
THAT'S an excellent choice for a band name, Mark, and I, for one, encourage you to go for it. I assume that it goes without saying that you are now ready to quit your day job.
THAT'S an excellent choice for a band name, Mark, and I, for one, encourage you to go for it. I assume that it goes without saying that you are now ready to quit your day job.
@Guillotine_Jones @TheBreadmonkey I didn’t just quit; I went fully nuclear!
Stephen Darlington@TheBreadmonkey The paper was actually written by the fungus. Other scientists are not impressed by its lack of humility.
@sdarlington @TheBreadmonkey
Funds for additional research are now needed until this fungus becomes humble.
Funds for additional research are now needed until this fungus becomes humble.
Heather 👻@TheBreadmonkey ... I'm saying it.
The preview image looks like a bunch of Shrek buttholes.
@Akki @TheBreadmonkey
Heather has entered the chat with a ground-breaking observation about radioactive fungus that the men somehow overlooked -- just in time for Women's History Month, celebrated in the US, Germany, and Australia.
Unfortunately, it's not celebrated in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Heather has entered the chat with a ground-breaking observation about radioactive fungus that the men somehow overlooked -- just in time for Women's History Month, celebrated in the US, Germany, and Australia.
Unfortunately, it's not celebrated in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
@Guillotine_Jones @TheBreadmonkey Why the hell is my gender any part of this?
Get a life.
@Akki @TheBreadmonkey
I see why my awkward attempt at humor offended you, Heather, and I apologize for the offense.
The comic nugget that I was aiming for here, but apparently missed, was that in my mind men usually draw attention to body parts (like anuses) and yet in this case it appeared that a woman was doing so -- and during Women's History Month.
I see now that I'm just digging the hole deeper.
I shall follow your advice and go get a life.
I see why my awkward attempt at humor offended you, Heather, and I apologize for the offense.
The comic nugget that I was aiming for here, but apparently missed, was that in my mind men usually draw attention to body parts (like anuses) and yet in this case it appeared that a woman was doing so -- and during Women's History Month.
I see now that I'm just digging the hole deeper.
I shall follow your advice and go get a life.
@Guillotine_Jones @TheBreadmonkey That is not humour.
You made shit assumptions, especially of scientists being men.
You targeted my gender for a joke. That is wrong.
Golden Bunny of Destiny 🕯@Akki @TheBreadmonkey That *is* the incredible ability
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Spoiler alert:
Exposure to this fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's radiation zone does NOT give humans spider powers, Ben.
Spoiler alert:
Exposure to this fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's radiation zone does NOT give humans spider powers, Ben.
Дими́трий@Guillotine_Jones @TheBreadmonkey
but it could well very give them Fungus Powers™
Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜@TheBreadmonkey its life Jim, but not as we know it
Bruno Girin@TheBreadmonkey
Radiopharmacologist sounds like a badass job!
Radiopharmacologist sounds like a badass job!
for a day, while . . . 🗽when the sun begins to shed its outer layers and blasts away earth's atmosphere, the long-waiting fungus spreads its limbs to accept the radiance, growing into majestic black forests crowding the earth with new life . . .
🍋 Superball ☀️ooooh 👀🖤
David Cohen@TheBreadmonkey it can sing?
‘Tad’ Sander 🍉🌻@TheBreadmonkey Footage from the reactor has the Fallout 2 soundtrack as background music. +1
Shadow, First of His Name 
@TheBreadmonkey Blessed are the fungus, for they shall inherit the earth... again.
Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧@TheBreadmonkey Fungal Overlord does sound like a good name for a band.
ShivvinessI saw recently that they've discovered a fungus that eats plastic, so it seems fugi are cleaning up the mess we've made.
J$@Shivviness only if they also consume us. Which they no doubt will do without qualms.
Stephen Dioxide 
@Shivviness @TheBreadmonkey This makes sense. By a very broad definition, plastic is organic material, because it's made from dinosaurs (really, more plants than animals, but you get the idea).
Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderGoes well with the radiation-metabolising fungi at Chernobyl.
Let me scroll back, see can I find the link.
The planet will be fine when we are gone!
Too funny. That was the post that you were replying to.
Thanks to both of you for the bits of good news. Nature is resilient enough to survive us.
Chuff²Long as they don't discover Mutant 59
@TheBreadmonkey Don’t underestimate the fungal web.
It's nice to know that once it gets rid of us, life really can find a way
Andrew Furrow@TheBreadmonkey 37 new fungi actually, and that was in the 90s! More than 100 additional had been identified in the years since, with Wikipedia mentioning a figure around 200.
Fritz leck Eier 🎗️@TheBreadmonkey i can't decide, whether that has more Nausicaa or more Godzilla vibes.