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chapotraphouse • 4 months ago

For anyone who is feeling doomer about the survival of life on earth, here are some articles about bacteria LIVING IN ASPHALT

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For anyone who is feeling doomer about the survival of life on earth, here are some articles about bacteria LIVING IN ASPHALT

Frank [he/him, he/him] to

chapotraphouse • 4 months ago

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.

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Frank [he/him, he/him]
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4 months ago
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.

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