https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070510151916.htm
https://phys.org/news/2010-04-microbes-natural-asphalt-lake.html
https://www.livescience.com/1515-asphalt-munching-bacteria-discovered.html
The weird little bastards are eating metal and petrochemicals!
As a bonus, here are fungi that eat hard ionizing radiation, including in the radioactive core of the Chernobyl NPP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
We’re gonna make it. Well, maybe not us, but someone is definitely gonna make it.
I’ve never been scared about the survival of life on earth, just the survival of people on earth.
okay cool but i’m not a bacteria that can live in asphalt
Yeah, the planet post ecological collapse is still going to have life. Not human life and definitely no dolphins or orangutans or whatever, but it’s going to have some really interesting fungi and slime bacteria for alien visitors to study.
And they’ll speciate to fill out every niche they can and a few they can’t. It’s cold comfort, but we’re… idk, we’re all part of life. and not just life here, but the life that almost assuredly exists everywhere in the unfathomably vast universe. I want to win, i want to live to see communism and enjoy it. But, idk, I don’t think of myself as an individual bound to this brief lifetime. You, me, all of us, we’re part of vast cosmic processes. There’s more than this lifetime on this world around this star. Our struggle isn’t just for ourselves, or our kids, or even our species. It’s… big. It’s really big. It’s for people who will come after us. It’s to vindicate the martyr’s who came before us. Hell, some day we might be the Posada aliens for the socialists of some other world. Idk. Giving up, even as bad as things are, just seems like small scale thinking.
The sentient lichen archaeologists are going to have so much fun in 10 million years.
This is why the whole “immortality is a curse” shit is cope. I’d fucking love to see evolution of life and (maybe) civilization over millions of years
Right? “Immortality is a curse” is the most skill issue idea. As long as your body held together relatively well I’d be thrilled to live forever. There’s so much to do!
I’ve lived 10,000 human lifetimes, patiently lying in wait for the next sentient species to arise. Now I will go forth, mentor them, and poison their academic research forever by explaining that a bidet was for washing one’s face.
Life uuuh finds a way.
Can’t wait for some carbrained boomer to use this as a bad faith argument to prevent us from performing a road diet.
