Interesting Article on Chernobyl

[24HRrnr]

Silent Spring

TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO, on 26 April 1986, reactor No 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, blew apart, spewing radioactive dust and debris far and wide.

Ever since, a 30 km 'exclusion zone' has existed around the contaminated site, accessible to those with special clearance only. It's quite easy, then, to conjure an apocalyptic vision of the area; to imagine an eerily deserted wasteland, utterly devoid of life.

But the truth is quite the opposite."

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/2095/silent-spring?page=1%2C0

edit: to add link - sorry!

[babylonsister]

1. Edit: Add a link: this could be fascinating. nt

[24HRrnr]

2. Fixed n/t

[Captain Angry]

3. Awesome story.

That kind of stuff is so interesting.

I'm pretty sure it was Straight Story that posted a story the other day about bees trained to locate landmines.

I love this stuff. It sure makes my day after reading about the state of the political system here.

[babylonsister]

4. Hi, Capt. nt

[Captain Angry]

6. Hi back. :-)

[Tindalos]

5. Very interesting

It's amazing how resilient life is. I'm curious to see what further research shows.

[24HRrnr]

7. In my business,

I tell clients that nature is relentless.

I wasn't even close to the truth.

[Night_Nurse]

8. Hmmm...

"Fungi are weird, yes. They chow down on everything from decaying plant matter to the more exotic fare of asbestos and jet fuel. But being able to produce their own energy, independent of an actual food source, and use dangerous ionising radiation to boot? That's very new and very exciting", Casadevall says.

It's very interesting, but why am I having visions of... "Attack of the Killer 'Shrooms"?? Something that not only survives, but thrives, on radiation?

More evidence that there's got to be life on other planets as well.