Comment on Fungi using gamma radiation for energy in Chernobyl

absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

That is really interesting.

So we have fungi growing on the outside of the ISS, and we have fungi growing were there is very little available moisture.

So hard vacuum and almost no moisture doesn’t kill off fungi. It can evolve to take advantage of extremely high energy radiation.

I wonder if fungi could grow on asteroids?

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