Inside Chernobyl, scientists have discovered a black fungus feeding on deadly gamma radiation.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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It’s astrophage
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) is a **much** higher-quality version of the top image. [Here](https://www.pierpaolomittica.com/prints/radioactive-metal-1/) is the source. Credit to the photographer, [Pierpaolo Mittica](https://www.pierpaolomittica.com/).
> The story behind the photo:
> Yuriy while sandblasting the radioactive scrap metal.
> Inside the zone tons of metals lie abandoned, but over the years all this rusty gold has not gone unnoticed, and more or less illegally was recycled and today continues to be. Tons of metal leave the area each month. Since 2007, the Ukrainian government has legalized the recycling of radioactive metals with the blasting method. The workshop is close to the never finished number 5 and 6 reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a huge warehouse where twelve men clean and recycle radioactive metals. Their work is terribly dangerous, almost a death sentence in slow motion, as it forces the workers to continuously inhale radioactive particles like caesium, strontium and plutonium.
> From the project “Chernobyl Stories” The Ukraine 2014-2019
[Here]
) is a **much** higher-quality and less cropped version of the bottom image. Credit to the photographer, Wikipedia user Medmyco.
> Description: Cladosporium sphaerospermum (UAMH 4745) on potato dextrose agar after incubation for 14 days at 25°C.
> Date 24 March 2005, 09:15:31
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladosporium_sphaerospermum#
That’s a Kiwi
Not gonna say it not gonna say not gonna say it
Is it feeding on the radiation, or is the gamma radiation keeping it small?
If the latter, it will grow to its full potential when it breaks free
I AM VENNNOOOOMMMM
Life finds a way.
Could this be a good thing? A new way of disposing of nuclear waste/radioactive material?
Not great, not terrible.
Hulk sporesÂ
This is giving me Protomolecule vibes from The Expanse.
Get out of here stalker!
I’ve seen this show
Hulk-Fungus, SMASH!!
Chornobyl*
r/mushrooms “Is this edible?”
Forbidden Kiwi
I thought that was Leonardo at first glance.
And mutated into a green butthole. Fascinating..
You won’t like it when its angry.
It’s The Last of Us. This is how it starts.
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