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We need some of that shit growing in our space stations. And maybe we could use to give some of its genes to ourselves to help survive out there
Why do you think this fungus would absorb more radiation than e.g. a similar volume of water?
not more exactly but could make use of the energy to grow whatever the shield is made of. byproducts like salad greens lol
wouldnt fungus also use the radiation since it needs it to live? water just gets more and more irradiated since everything just stays
Can that work? Radiation damages genes in unpredictable ways because its wavelength is smaller than the dna itself, right? How might that work for something more complex than fungi?
We're probably more simple than fungi. Jokes aside we're very complex creatures but each cell of ours is just so much more simple or equal in complexity to a mold. They're between 25% to 50% shared genome with us.
Tbh all life on earth is so similar to each other one could say we're all the same exact organism just warped in a million different ways with extreme degrees of variance
Yeah i've been thinking this for a long time; All life on Earth is so ridiculously similar, it really shows how much code was reused and how much of a common platform there is.
good idea. radiation shielding