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