“That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39553283 https://libretechni.ca/post/483480
Funniest/saddest moment from that miniseries was when their officials have the West the propaganda numbers to build the robot. Fucking lol…
I don’t know it for sure, but I understood that the Germans built a robot capable of withstanding the propaganda number not explicitly for the Russians. It just happens to withstand those, but not the real numbers…
“West Germany, though, so you can imagine how that conversation went.”