FYI: The ability is photosynthesis but using radiation.

Obviously, all the junk noncoding DNA most life is carrying around likely includes some coping mechanisms for whatever potential situations arise. Like there is the one town in Iran with something like ten times Earth's nominal background radiation and people are fine living there.

Makes me a bit concerned when this kind of thing is talked about and researched. Probably my cynicism, but if it gets out that most species have some genetic tolerance in a significant portion of the population, the potential for nuclear weapons use increases dramatically. I believe it is likely that early life had a lot more exposure to radiation, so early ancestors likely evolved the machinery. When the vast majority of DNA is noncoding, I think the probability is high. We come at the medical issue backwards, playing wack-a-mole with symptoms, rather than building a full ontological understanding of biology. That level is still centuries away. Hopefully we are less primitive murder orgy fans by then. We survived the world war of chemicals, and physics that followed. If we survive the world war of computer science, the world war of biology will be the brutal final boss for the starting planetary level of Evo' Universe. Who bets we can beat the game on one evo life?

You want Hulk fungi?

Because this is how you get Hulk fungi.

It's even approximately that shade of green.

Does this fungus "eat" the radiation, as in we can use it to clean up radioactive areas? Cause that'd be nice.

Life... uhhh...

I can't wait until we can lab-grow lignin, I'm talking 3D printed wood, mofuckas

I for one welcome our melanin-pigmented overlords.

The evidence that the fungi overlords will soon take over continues to mount...that's why I don't eat mushrooms...better safe than sorry...

I should call her.

Everything reminds me of him

What was it again. A bacteria in a pocket in some Uran mine, that directly uses radiation as energy source? Might be yet another mechanism.

So this is how the 40K Orks came to be! Makes sense.

Extract the gene and inject it into a roach. Then encode human DNA into roach eggs and fly those roaches to Mars. After a few generations we would have a fully grown man roach able to feed off the radiation. That's as far as I've gotten that idea. Oh man, tomorrow is another fuckin Monday. But we're just 5 more weeks from 2026 can't wait to 2029 when we'll have a new president. Thanks electoral college! Without you we wouldn't be able to choose the most retarded possible person for the job. I hope you guys eat some psychedelics this time around. Sure we could also choose whatever the public picks. Wait, what was the question?

That's pretty incredible! Radiosynthesis if proven opens some new possibilities.

Mandatory "I should call her"

Fungussy.