Sounds like one of those magic mushroom/ergot kinds of breakthrough ideas. I'd always figured that Leila the Soviet dog provided the origin of the idea of a dog driving a car.
But does it taste good with scrambled eggs?
In 2019, researchers flew some of the fungi to the ISS, watching how it grew over a period of 30 days
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Your tax dollars at work. There is no limit to the things government will spend money on to study. Its all about science don’t cha know.
or put their Number 2 in plastic bags and store it in the walls of the spacecraft
One more reason to grow veggies in space. It may keep the weight down for background radiation but I don’t know if an intense shot will be stopped by fungi. A dense metallic lining like a lead or gold lining would likely be preferred for a heavy and long radiation bombardment.
Provided, of course, that it doesn’t eventually mutate and devour the astronauts.
Boy ... there could be a great episode of Futurama made with this story.
Farnsworth would be all over it.
Great just wait until it becomes self-aware.
The fungus from space. Definitely a movie there.
Now I get it, this is really where “The Andromeda Strain” came from.
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or by using H2O as a shield as envisioned in Project Orion. Water is more useful then fungi which at best can only be eaten, unless under the extreme radiation, it mutates and eats the astronauts ...
Is this the set-up for a science horror movie?
Sounds like one of those magic mushroom/ergot kinds of breakthrough ideas. I'd always figured that Leila the Soviet dog provided the origin of the idea of a dog driving a car.
The cloaking device is a fungus?
The fungus is amongst us,
but the lead is ahead.
Fungi Ping.
