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For anyone who is feeling doomer about the survival of life on earth, here are some articles about bacteria LIVING IN ASPHALT (hexbear.net)
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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.

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

It makes no difference what man thinks of parking lots. Parking lots will endure. Before man was, the parking lot waited for him. The ultimate land use awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

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