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I bet in a hundred years we're using genetically modified fungus to remove all sorts of contaminants from the environment. There's already mushrooms that can fe
by bobsmooth 4y ago
I bet in a hundred years we're using genetically modified fungus to remove all sorts of contaminants from the environment. There's already mushrooms that can feed off radiation.
- account-5 4y agoMy understanding of fungus, a side interest, is that you probably don't need to genetically modify them. There is probably a fungus already doing what you want somewhere. You just need to find it. Fungus are amazing, and we understand really nothing about them.
- imhoguy 4y agoExactly this, we should to be careful with introducing any modified spieces at scale before we understand the existing ecosystem and before we kill it with some invasive mutants.
- midoridensha 4y agoI don't think it matters much if something is genetically engineered or not. Normal (unmodified) invasive species already cause a lot of damage to ecosystems. From the point-of-view of the damaged ecosystem, it doesn't matter if the invader is GE or perfectly natural; it still doesn't belong there.
- imtringued 4y agoYou could also just do no till farming and let the fungi in your field survive.
- detritus 4y agoI think something that could accumulate lead would be highly useful, given we've spent much of the last century indelicately vapourising it over everything.
- bigbillheck 4y agoAlmost all plants feed off radiation, it's called 'photosynthesis'.