The blob born in a Chernobyl reactor? D:

[hool10]

http://www.wtnrradio.com/news/story.php?story=262

This slime, a collection of several fungi actually, was more than just surviving in a radioactive environment, it was actually using gamma radiation as a food source. The fungi appear to use melanin, a chemical found in human skin as well, in the same fashion as plants use chlorophyll. Casadevall and his co-researchers then set about performing a variety of tests using several different fungi. Two types - one that was induced to make melanin (Crytococcus neoformans) and another that naturally contains it (Wangiella dermatitidis) - were exposed to levels of ionizing radiation approximately 500 times higher than background levels. Both of these melanin-containing species grew significantly faster than when exposed to standard background radiation. That is to say, the melanin molecule gets struck by a gamma ray and its chemistry is altered. This is an amazing discovery, no one had even suspected that something like this was possible.

"Just as the pigment chlorophyll converts sunlight into chemical energy that allows green plants to live and grow, our research suggests that melanin can use a different portion of the electromagnetic spectrum - ionizing radiation - to benefit the fungi containing it," said co-researcher Ekaterina Dadachova. Interestingly, the melanin in fungi is no different chemically from the melanin in our skin, leading Casadevall to speculate that melanin could be providing energy to skin cells.

From the 'haus.

 

[PvtRyan]

"But that's not evolution, the fungi is still a fungi. I'll believe you when a fungi gives birth to a rabbit."

 

[Sloth]

Nice - a new way to harvest Rads!

Wierd what acidents will show us...

 

[Ravioli]

Stalker

 

[hool10]

They think we could use this in battery cells. That would'nt work because we would be having radiation in cell phones near our brains all the time. We could use it to clean up radiation waste though. Or create new skin or have a cure for albino's. Who knows but it's certainly weird. The "slime" grows the more it eats too...

 

[Smoke]

The blob.

 

[Russian Mafia]

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[<RJMC>]

it will kill us all

one of the scientist will be there examinating the slime in a glass contener,and them he will notice the slime moves in a way and when he take a look closer BANG the slime breaks the glass and grab his faces
the toher doctor will enter and then he noticed the first scientist in the ground and when he tryes to wake him up BANG the slime come out of the motuhc and grab him too
and them the scientist walks outside infecting everyone in the lab
a security guard them enter and find everyone on the ground and when he checks them he sees one of the bodyes start to open and a humanoid weird looking creature apear from the body,the guard shoot him and seems to kill it
but them he noticed the rest of the bodyes start to open and when he tryes to exit the room the creature he killed grabs his leg and dont let him go and the guard get eated by them!
so prepare cuz we are doomed
doooomed

 

[Smoke]

^

An 80's B movie if I ever saw one.

 

[hool10]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ5TDbok_7Q[/YOUTUBE]Look it up. It's good, corny, sci-fi fun! :cheese:

 

[Polaris]

Let's nuke it! .... wait.

 

[Smoke]

Let's nuke it! .... wait.

And watch it cover 90% of the planet.

This is gaming/Movie/Book potential.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Oh shit.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Oh shit.

Qouted for truth.

 

[ríomhaire]

Let's nuke it! .... wait.

 

[Godron]

Interestingly, the melanin in fungi is no different chemically from the melanin in our skin, leading Casadevall to speculate that melanin could be providing energy to skin cells.

... So black people could hang around in reactor cores absorbing radiations and producing sugars in their skin cells?

 

[MJ12]

This reminds me of Creepshow when Steven King plays the hick, and he gets all that fungi/algea stuff all over him and his house/yard.

 

[ríomhaire]

And watch it cover 90% of the planet.

This is gaming/Movie/Book potential.

1. Fungus
2. ???
3. Profit!

 

[hool10]

Anybody remember that movie back in 2000 named Red Planet? One of the guys who was in Saving Private Ryan was eaten by green, fluorescent, algae that provided oxygen on Mars. Well that's what I think the algae looks like lol.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

... So black people could hang around in reactor cores absorbing radiations and producing sugars in their skin cells?

You bitch ass cracker. :frown:

 

[Smoke]

Anybody remember that movie back in 2000 named Red Planet? One of the guys who was in Saving Private Ryan was eaten by green, fluorescent, algae that provided oxygen on Mars. Well that's what I think the algae looks like lol.

Actually he was eaten by those bugs that eat the algae, hence the mission being launched to find out where it all went. They made oxygen as a by-product when they consumed it. So when that guy dropped his flare into a giant seething mass of them, the wave of fire could be seen from space.

Epic death is epic.

 

[bam23]

Black living slime?

It's a symbiote.

Pics now.

 

[hool10]

Well actually google'ing it makes even more discoveries: http://discovermagazine.com/1996/mar/rockeatingslime731 It's gotta be glowing and microscopic to call it a slime though.

 

[Raziaar]

They think we could use this in battery cells. That would'nt work because we would be having radiation in cell phones near our brains all the time. We could use it to clean up radiation waste though. Or create new skin or have a cure for albino's. Who knows but it's certainly weird. The "slime" grows the more it eats too...

There is far more interesting battery technology being developed than silly radiation.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Wooooow. First the nylon eating microbes now this. Score some more for evolution. I wonder if anyone has been investigating the creamy center of our growing trash piles. Might be some bacteria breaking down plastic bottles and pooin' out black gold.