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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

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[–] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Skill issue tbh. Using my immortal wisdom of untold ages I would simply not get stuck

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eventually we all get stuck in the endless black abyss of the post heat death universe

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

eh sure but it's that or oblivion so why not?

[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i've never thought about it like that before and honestly its quite liberating

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

it's how i've always felt about immortality. sure it's a gamble, but at least it's a shot at something interesting happening

even if you have to wait for the next universe to be born or whatever