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]
    ·
    4 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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      4 months ago

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

      • Kuori [she/her]
        ·
        4 months ago

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

          • Kuori [she/her]
            ·
            4 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