The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding plants and bacteria, meaning Dad is still changing lives after he's gone.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/circle
Bonus comic : https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/real-3
Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think about it too hard.
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But what if they cremate you? Better be safe and also swallow some mercury zinc batteries so your corpse will explode during cremation if they go that route.
I just wanted to say thanks ... I'm having a bit of a bad day and that genuinely made me laugh out loud
Glad to hear it. Hope things get better!
How do you know it's close to the end? Simple: just swallow plutonium dioxide and it sure will be.
What about the "weird black mold" ? Is this something real ? Like some radiation resistant mold that has been observed ?
It might not be related, but they've found mold inside the reactor room of Chernobyl. Apparently it's evolved a chlorophyll like molecule that captures gamma radiation. It's literally living of the energy that makes the environment lethal to almost anything else (organic or electronic).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus#:~:text=Radiotrophic%20fungi%20are%20fungi%20that,the%20Chernobyl%20Nuclear%20Power%20Plant.
Edit. Just checked and it's not confirmed how it's growing. They do know it grows significantly faster in a high radiation environment. They haven't pinned down the exact biological mechanism.
Oh, and yes, it's black in colour.
I don’t think I had this one on my apocalypse bingo sheet
I, for one, welcome our new gamma mold overlords.
Couldn't be any worse than the overlords we have now.
Oh cool so we have protomolecule now?
Badass. Was reading that thinking what about space applications. Sure enough there is a whole section on that in the wiki.
Appreciate you sharing this. Was super interesting to read.
Wasn't there some bacteria found in an uranium mine, enclosed for millions of years, that lives off gamma radiation too?
edit: yep. Those things could survive without the sun.
So theoretically, there could be organisms living on the surface of the sun?
Unlikely. Biochemistry, as we know it, relies on a carbon-carbon backbone. That breaks down long before the temperatures on the sun's main outer layers. The electrons get stripped off, and chemistry, as we know it, stops working.
Eating radiation is one thing, surviving those temperatures is another. I don't even think tardigrades can survive that hot.
Wouldn't swallowing plutonium dioxide be the reason you end?
They're saying if you are lying in a hospital bed with a terminal diagnosis at the end of your days you should swallow the balloon.
You're right. Also from what little I understand about radiation seems like you might want to take some more definitive action too rather than give the polonium time to finish the job. It would probably be more unpleasant than however else you were going to die
Where do I procure said balloon if I'm lying in a hospital bed at the end of my days?
Keep one in your pocket at all times.
Either way, it'll be shortly before the end. You can't lose this one :D
Or pay the graveyard to spray Roundup around your grave. That's probably the easier of the two.
An ideal last prank for all you Andy Kaufman-types out there.
Companies that make sealed concrete vaults would like a word with you
My plan was always to eat a bunch of gunpowder and ask to be cremated.