New kind of radioactive slime discovered inside Chernobyl

Fungi From Yuggoth

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(Magnum: Chernobyl Legacy by Paul Fusco)

This is the hour when moonstruck poets know
What fungi sprout in Yuggoth, and what scents
And tints of flowers fill Nithon's continents,
Such as in no poor earthly garden blow.
Yet for each dream these winds to us convey,
A dozen more of ours they sweep away!

....................The Fungi From Yuggoth


The literature already contains some indirect evidence for the notion that radiation can enhance the growth of melanized microorganisms. For example, the melanotic fungus C. cladosporioides manifests radiotropism by growing in the direction of radioactive particles and this organism has become widely distributed in the areas surrounding Chernobyl since the nuclear accident in 1986 [7]. Both in the laboratory and in the field several other species of melanized fungi grew towards soil particles contaminated with different radionuclides, gradually engulfing and destroying those particles [35], [36]. In addition, there are recent reports that certain life forms can utilize non-conventional forms of energy - microbes in geothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean can harvest thermal radiation as an energy source [37] while some microorganisms living in mines exploit energy from radiolysis of water [38]. On the basis of these precedents and the results of this study we cautiously suggest that the ability of melanin to capture electromagnetic radiation combined with its remarkable oxidation-reduction properties may confer upon melanotic organisms the ability to harness radiation for metabolic energy. The enhanced growth of melanotic fungi in conditions of radiation fluxes suggests the need for additional investigation to ascertain the mechanism for this effect.

Above Conclusion from: Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi




"French junior minister for industry and foreign trade Herve Novelli, right, and Vinci SA Chairman Yves-Thibault de Silguy visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, with the sheltered Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 in the background. Ukrainian officials on Monday signed a $505 million (Euro 364 million) contract with a French-led consortium for the construction of a new shelter for the Chernobyl reactor, the site of the word's worst nuclear accident. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)"​



Of some dim life - I never could tell where.
But now I knew that through the cosmic dome
Those rays were calling from my far, lost home
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Quite.
 

sufi

lala
Мир

Мир

Penetrating into every single corner of the station, they showed an enormous appetite and demonstrated their capacity to eat up even highly durable materials. A vivid example of the bacteria's' "outrage" is illustrated by what happened to the window of a transportation spacecraft that docked to Mir when piloted by its last crew. Some time after docking, the cosmonauts' attention was drawn to the rapidly deteriorating window glass. It was covered by a strange film, spreading "as quickly as in the horror movies," and became absolutely non-transparent.
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The test results raised the researchers' eyebrows. It turned out the quartz glass and the titan, which framed it, were damaged by a large colony of bacteria. As experts explained later, these microorganisms exuded a metabolism product--an acid so strong that it could easily corrode the window the creatures had settled on.
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Besides this case, which rightfully belongs in the microbiology textbooks, the little angry bacteria more than once ate up the metallic casing and destroyed the equipment on board the station. Their next victim was the control panel of a communication device, in which the parasites devoured the whole insulation. When the astronauts Anatoly Solovyev and Pavel Vinogradov sent the device down to the earth, one could see that it was entirely green inside! http://www.anomalist.com/reports/mir.html
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
This is SO cool. It's like a real-life '50s B-movie. :D

The use of plants and fungi to cleanse soil of toxic (though not necessarily radioactive) metals is actually nothing new. In fact the rate at which fungi absorb trace elements from soil has, unfortunately, created a potentially major health risk in regions badly affected by the Chernobyl fallout, since wild mushrooms are an important source of food for country people in Eastern Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_picking_in_Slavic_culture#Radiation :confused:
 

noel emits

a wonderful wooden reason
"With this organism, we can take an intact DNA molecule, blast it into little pieces, and in five to six hours the organism is restored and growing normally again,"

W T F ?
 
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