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On 10/05/2021 00:02, bill w wrote:<br>
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ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Yes, I am into
another field: fungi. More interesting than cod, Spike.
Trivia:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Some lichens can
live through 24 thousands times the gamma radiation that humans
can.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Maybe a trip to
Mars will be in a craft covered with lichens. Who in our groups
is working in biology?</div>
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I doubt that covering a spacecraft with lichens would help the
astronauts inside. Lichens might be good at surviving high
radiation, but that doesn't mean they would absorb it (that would
damage them more, not less).<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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