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Off topic, but I've always thought it would be really cool if something like a fungus evolved that fed off solar radiation. This fungus could convert the energy
by ingenium 19y ago
Off topic, but I've always thought it would be really cool if something like a fungus evolved that fed off solar radiation. This fungus could convert the energy from radiation into matter/molecules for itself to grow. It would then grow off the planet into space and eventually surround that planet's sun, at a safe distance of course. A similar fungus has evolved on Earth that lives inside the Chernobyl reactor and uses the radiation for energy.
The thing is, this fungus would be arguably much more successful than humans.
- jey 19y ago"... convert the energy from radiation into matter/molecules for itself to grow." That would have to be one hell of a protein.
- ingenium 19y agoHaha yeah. The Chernobyl one I understand, because it works similar to photosynthesis. I have no idea how the energy to matter conversion could be done in such a way as to not destroy the organism, but it has to be possible somehow. Nature always finds a way.
- eru 19y agoBecause there are - nearly always - energetically cheaper ways to get your matter than making it out of energy. I mean - we sit on a huge pile of matter called the earth.