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kinyutaka t1_j5nivbt wrote

Wait until you hear about the anti anti zombie-fungus fungus ant, which is a type of ant that eats the anti-zombie-fungus fungus to keep other ants as zombie ants.

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monkeypox_69 t1_j5nm3y1 wrote

Just wait until we weaponize it. evil laugh

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pgboo t1_j5nmigf wrote

Everybody is enjoying the last of us it seems lol.

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BrokenEye3 t1_j5nnlx0 wrote

The zombie ant fungus is a major recurring motif in a very strange film I saw recently called The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes. Not a zombie film. Not even a horror film, though it certainly is eerie.

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Paracelsus19 t1_j5nnurn wrote

Mycoparasitism is fascinating. When I collect mushrooms, I love putting a few aside just to watch them decompose and sustain the weird little fungal parasites that feed on them. They're such a melting pot of biochemical compounds.

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CarelessHisser t1_j5nqe0l wrote

Man nature itself is just a perpetual arms race ain't it?

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coffeeinvenice t1_j5ocxxl wrote

So then presumably the fungus that eats and destroys the anti zombie fungus fungus would be the "anti-anti-zombie-fungus-fungus fungus"?

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Neptune-neptune t1_j5omsuu wrote

For some reason, I went down a rabbit hole last year and learned all about cicadas. They have a similar fungus that infects them, and they are kept in check as well. There is also a new species of bacteria called Ideonella sakaiensis, which eats plastic. My point is that the earth, or nature, has a way of balancing things out. I don’t think people realize this.

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InappropriateTA t1_j5ot2gy wrote

Replying to FormABruteSquad (#1,464,684)

Came here to post this and I’m glad to see it’s a reply to the top comment.

Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Avery Brooks, Christina Applegate, Elliot Gould, Bokeem Woodbine, Antonio Sabàto Jr., and China Chow.

EDIT: Well, it was the top comment when I started composing my reply. I had it as a draft for a while…

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FPSCanarussia t1_j5pgspj wrote

It's parasites all the way down tbh. Did you know that even viruses have them? There are certain viruses that only take over cells that have been infected by other viruses.

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Nadaesque t1_j5qcidk wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,468,421)

There's fungi who like to live near it, but nothing digests and destroys radioactive waste. To do so would either involve alchemy or colliders. A radioactive atom stays an unstable isotope until it absorbs or emits something.

That's what people don't really get about radioactive contamination of soils and such. Burn it in a furnace? Radioactive smoke.

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rmp881 t1_j5rn1ws wrote

So this is what Ellie has...

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PrintZealousideal279 t1_j63g3yf wrote

This keeps reminding me of our plague of multiple fatality shooters….”a way of balancing things.”

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