can we stop using the word quietly!? I am so quietly sick of hearing the word quietly in every god damn sentence I see
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Could you type this a bit quieter?
There is a form of life that can digest radioactive material to make it less radioactive?
Doubt
I hope when it develops sapience that we can be friends
Quietly? Do fungi typically feast loudly?
They didn’t announce their feast on social media.
According to the article there exists no evidence that it actually synthesis energy from the radiation. The title is a flat out lie. It is a hypothesis with zero evidence.
Also, it claims melanin that makes it dark, like our skin, is part of the synthesis, but an easier explanation is that it is there to protect against radiation, just like how melanin in our skin protects us from solar radiation.
The whole idea of "radio-synthesis" is pseudoscientific bullshit with nothing to back it up.
it's a hypothesis... making hypotheses and verifying them is how science progresses. you can't dismiss every single unproven hypotheses as pseudoscience. that is in fact, unscientific.
on the other hand, i am tired of media sensationalising as well...
Yeah, and not like it needs to eat radiation to be successful, all it has to do is survive in a place where everything else dies, and suddenly it has no competitors or predators, and is free to grow explosively.
It would be more interesting if it was noisily feasting on radiation
What...was it raised in a barn? People who chew with their mouths open deserve a special place in hell.
Actually it was raised in the Chernobyl exclusion zone so I think we can make an exception
It's not going to end well for the belters
I wonder if theres a possibility to line a spaceship haul with this stuff to protect from cosmic radiation.
It's an interesting thought, but according to the article, it's not even clear that the fungus is absorbing radiation or befitting from radiation. Actual photosynthesis-via-radiation hasn't been demonstrated; it might simply be taking advantage of the absence of other species due to high radiation, or the radiation is triggering a stress response.
Beyond that, I'm not sure this fungus would have a better protection-per-ton rating than, say, water (which is an astoundingly good radiation shield). But, it might point us towards ways of developing plants which are radiation-tolerant, theoretically opening a path to growing food in orbital or lunar-surface environments.
Now I’m imagining ‘Moon Melons, Moon Mangos and Moon Mangetout”
This is mentioned in the article!
That sounds like a bad idea
There is a fungus for everything
Forbidden dumplings.
Ok who wants to stick their dick in it first?
I think you found a perfect fit for you. I'll lend you my microscope
Me! Me!
The origin story of the toxic avenger
That's a pretty funky video in the article. I didn't see much funghi, but I think the camera sensor was picking up on the radiation. At the dark scenes you can see these white artifacts, almost like ants on the screen, when you don't have a CRT TV tuned to a channel.
Thought these were green buttholes
Real life Fallout's "Glowing Fungus"