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What is it with all the fuzz a out fungi in space lately? Is Discovery so well-liked or is it the other way around? Serious question: How does the fungus relea
by choeger 5y ago
What is it with all the fuzz a out fungi in space lately? Is Discovery so well-liked or is it the other way around?
Serious question: How does the fungus release the energy? heat? Could we use them as some kind of biological radiation thermal panels on Mars?
- dnautics 5y agoMy guess is that the original paper is artefactual, but there's no reason a priori that an organism couldn't take large classes of ionizing radiation and turn it directly into chemical energy, ionizing radiation, after all, effects chemical transformations.