• janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I was actually thinking about something like that recently. I read a book by Peter Hamilton that had biomechanoid space ships incubating in jovian orbit because of the radiation, and then the other day there was an article somewhere about (potentially) radiotrophic fungi in the chernobyl exclusion zone and I was thinking you could line a spacecraft/station with that stuff. I guess it’s no surprise that melanin is just stupid good at absorbing ionizing radiation since that’s what is has evolved to do