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Can you elaborate on this? Nothing could get through that barrier? Like is it impossible for fungi to do that?
by johnisgood 1y ago
Can you elaborate on this? Nothing could get through that barrier? Like is it impossible for fungi to do that?
- throwanem 1y agoHF-secreting microorganisms with a tropism for a material extremely common in the human environment? No way that could go wrong.
- johnisgood 1y agoI'm not asking if it could go "wrong", which is a matter of perspective though.
- amelius 1y agoI guess you can see it can't work because glass is typically the material used by scientists to contain microbes.
- johnisgood 1y agoYeah, I just wonder if it is entirely impossible, or there MAY be a way, even if theoretically (so far). Or is it like "it certainly can never happen"?
- throwanem 1y agoYou imply microorganisms capable of digesting glass, stone, and sand, via a hydrofluoric-acid-concentrating biochemistry that I suspect is not even remotely possible in Earth's atmosphere, which is something of a relief because if it did happen, it would almost certainly end all other life on Earth within a span of years to decades.
- johnisgood 1y agoI do not imply their existence. My question is, can they exist or is it completely impossible, even theoretically?
- throwanem 1y agoNothing is impossible in theory.
- johnisgood 11mo agoOK, well, is it completely impossible in practice? I just want to get educated! Gosh.