https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070510151916.htm

https://phys.org/news/2010-04-microbes-natural-asphalt-lake.html

https://www.livescience.com/1515-asphalt-munching-bacteria-discovered.html

The weird little bastards are eating metal and petrochemicals!

As a bonus, here are fungi that eat hard ionizing radiation, including in the radioactive core of the Chernobyl NPP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus

We're gonna make it. Well, maybe not us, but someone is definitely gonna make it.

    • Smeagolicious [they/them]
      ·
      2 months ago

      Skill issue tbh. Using my immortal wisdom of untold ages I would simply not get stuck

      • cosecantphi [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Eventually we all get stuck in the endless black abyss of the post heat death universe

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          2 months ago

          eh sure but it's that or oblivion so why not?

            • Kuori [she/her]
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              2 months ago

              it's how i've always felt about immortality. sure it's a gamble, but at least it's a shot at something interesting happening

              even if you have to wait for the next universe to be born or whatever