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   ✠ Seraphim ✠ (_seraphim_@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:47:41 JST ✠ Seraphim ✠
   Radiotrophic Fungi are fungi from Chernobyl that adapted to utilize melanin to “eat” gamma radiation. That’s pretty fucking cool if you ask me (you didn’t.)
   
   There are a lot of other animal species in the irradiated exclusion zone that have adapted huge amounts of melanin via hyperpigmentation to shield themselves from radiation- seems to be a common biological theme.
   
   Reminds me of my theory about negroids becoming mutated/devolved humans after some type of ancient nuclear incident. Africa IS home to the only known ”natural nuclear reactor.” Maybe it wasn’t actually created by nature. Libyan Desert Glass is interesting, too.
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     db (db@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:47:40 JST db

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     i find it interesting that these animals species have adapted after less than 40 years when biologists often place estimate evolution scales in the tens of thousands of years
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:47:40 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @db @_Seraphim_ Genetic Drift is the term for the quick changes from circumstance. There's a chance that some gene for "make more melanin" was present already, probably bundled with a other gene (they like to travel in groups). How it would be expressed is beyond me, but perhaps immune system signals saying [damage from radiation] flip the switch or perhaps the ones that didn't have that died and it was a genetic bottleneck. How such a gene would be turned on (do animals have radiation receptors besides knowing there's damage?) or is it simply the immune system jannies cleaning up the damage?
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     Lichelord Godfrey (lichelordgodfrey@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 13:32:12 JST Lichelord Godfrey

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     @BowsacNoodle @db @_Seraphim_ I mean we're constantly undergoing radiation damage from the Sun, from being near fire, etc.

     All it takes is internal DNA repair mechanisms to fail in some way.

     Usually that just gets you cancer but sometimes not.

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     db (db@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 13:32:58 JST db

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     i wonder how many short-term radiation events have influenced humanity
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 13:34:02 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @lichelordgodfrey @db @_Seraphim_ True, but I've never read anything about human exposure to ionizing radiation causing a tan. Might be time to give Doc a fun late next text.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 13:43:04 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @lichelordgodfrey @db @_Seraphim_ Doc said even low levels could do this. It doesn't have to be very high, just enough to trigger it. I think I woke him up because he didn't get back to me on whether it's janny duty or something else.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 13:52:19 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @lichelordgodfrey @db @_Seraphim_ >melanocytes normally detect UV and produce melanin
     >Can produce melanin when exposed to ionizing radiation
     >Melanin can produce electricity when hit by ionizing radiation
     >Unknown if it's two way communication
     
     There we have our answer: Normal but probably also a bottleneck where the Chernobyl event killed off the animals with the weakest melanin response. Africa as a nuclear react making electric black people confirmed.