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.
I've never been scared about the survival of life on earth, just the survival of people on earth.
Yeah, the planet post ecological collapse is still going to have life. Not human life and definitely no dolphins or orangutans or whatever, but it’s going to have some really interesting fungi and slime bacteria for alien visitors to study.
And they'll speciate to fill out every niche they can and a few they can't. It's cold comfort, but we're... idk, we're all part of life. and not just life here, but the life that almost assuredly exists everywhere in the unfathomably vast universe. I want to win, i want to live to see communism and enjoy it. But, idk, I don't think of myself as an individual bound to this brief lifetime. You, me, all of us, we're part of vast cosmic processes. There's more than this lifetime on this world around this star. Our struggle isn't just for ourselves, or our kids, or even our species. It's... big. It's really big. It's for people who will come after us. It's to vindicate the martyr's who came before us. Hell, some day we might be the Posada aliens for the socialists of some other world. Idk. Giving up, even as bad as things are, just seems like small scale thinking.
The sentient lichen archaeologists are going to have so much fun in 10 million years.
This is why the whole "immortality is a curse" shit is cope. I'd fucking love to see evolution of life and (maybe) civilization over millions of years
Right? "Immortality is a curse" is the most skill issue idea. As long as your body held together relatively well I'd be thrilled to live forever. There's so much to do!
Skill issue tbh. Using my immortal wisdom of untold ages I would simply not get stuck
Eventually we all get stuck in the endless black abyss of the post heat death universe
i've never thought about it like that before and honestly its quite liberating
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
We've never been closer. If the sharks and jellyfish and crocodiles can do it, why shouldn't we?
Incidentally does anyone have a good news portal for research papers about this kind of thing? I'm trying to get up to date and inspired on the cellular regeneration/genetic manipulation fields. There's so much we can do and it's always been my dream to do it, and I think reading the real thing will really help me drag my adhd ass through school.
I've lived 10,000 human lifetimes, patiently lying in wait for the next sentient species to arise. Now I will go forth, mentor them, and poison their academic research forever by explaining that a bidet was for washing one's face.
Can’t wait for some carbrained boomer to use this as a bad faith argument to prevent us from performing a road diet.
It makes no difference what man thinks of parking lots. Parking lots will endure. Before man was, the parking lot waited for him. The ultimate land use awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria
here's another one, bacteria that evolved to eat some nylon byproducts in 35 years.
Like shit's really, really, really bad. But it's not Joever.
Fungi are SO FUCKING COOL. I remember reading somewhere a while ago about exploring the use of fungi in cleaning up oil spills in the ocean...wonder if that ever went anywhere
Stuff like archaebacteria or the blue-green algae on the international spacestation always exists to give me a glimmer of hope.
