The Organism that Eats Radiation | Because Science Footnotes 

Thanks for watching Super Nerds! *Link to last week's video* in case you missed it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Pu934afVrM.html -- kH

"Nature is much more resilient than that". In other words, "life, uh, finds a way". XD

Kyle: "There's a Fungi that converts gamma radiation to energy" Superman: *Stares intensely*

Kyle: Fungi feeding on radiation Me: GODZILLA IS OUT THEEEEERE!!!!

Notice how Kyle doesn’t disagree with being compared to Thanos. It’s because he knows it’s a small price to pay for salvation.

Thor: "An organism that eats radiation" Bruce Banner: Seriously? There's no need to be mean.

How hard can Steve from Minecraft punch

Well technically Kyle, the tardigrade aren't lost on the moon. We know where they are: They're on the Moon.

10:46 Hey, since I got a radio thrown at me recently and didn’t get so much as a bruise, does that mean I have higher radio resistance?

Interesting thing when it comes to the spread of radiation from Chernobyl; in a mushroom guide from early 2000s (originally like from 2000, the edition in question from like 2011) there was a section about the effect of radiation from Chernobyl. It talked about which areas of Sweden still had mushrooms that picked up radioactive material, recommendations on how much you can eat without significant health effects, how some mushrooms from those areas were too radioactive to be allowed to be sold, and how boiling the mushrooms could significantly reduce the amount of radiation. Iirc there's a mineral that mushrooms absorb that's very similar to some of the fallout from Chernobyl, which leads the mushrooms to absorb the radioactive material. Which when I think about it is quite similar to CO poisoning (although to my knowledge it doesn't have an adverse effect on the mushrooms). Unfortunately the book does not belong to me, so I'm woefully unable to cite my sources atm.

9:20 It also helps that they cleaned the _hell_ out of many roadways...

"...Where I address them at warp speed!" *Rap God plays*

That Felicity comparison... I cannot unsee it now.

Drones? With scissors? Somebody call Simone Giertz

Also, Godzilla is a giant walking fungus. Science proves it. Don't fight me on this.

Evil Kyle is becoming one of my favorites Kyle's personas!🤷🏻‍♂️

Kyle why not do a video on the feasibility of the fusion and Fission reactors of Gundam.

I sent Jeremy Wade an email back in 2009 and he responded graciously as well. Really nice and humble person. Keep up the videos fellow science nerd!

The Manhattan project created doctor Manhattan. Don't mess around Kyle, of course he could destroy the atmosphere

Oh man. I laughed so much at this follow up. There were so many moments where I just laughed out loud. Kyle, you’re awesome. Thanks for being you.

Kyle, aka "Evil Bat-Thor", continues his research to destroy humanity, in the following episode: "How to turn the air into a fused exploding death". Love the show XD

All of this is leading up to Kyle raging war on Earth from his void

That Clarkson impression was spot on. And yes, I also thought that was a silly episode, wasting all that energy to avoid having to drive through a parfectly safe area of Chernobyl.

again thanks so much for more of these real world science questions!! keep up the amazing work

“Or moss piglets if you’re nasty” 😂 lmao I just love this channel

1:25 Kyle you should try LUDACRIS speed, much more scientific.

"There will be places we will never boldly go" ..... thank you for crushing my dreams 😭

The shirt fitting bit at the start of the video was perfect.

Lol I can never unsee the felicity smoke comparison. You have a great sense of humor and run a great show. Keep doing your thing Kyle! We love you

Please do a video on the logistics and feasibility of both building and racing on Rainbow Road, thank you

8:28 Perhaps if Felicity grew some facial hair, went to the gym and came up with some laughable yet cheesy jokes then YES she would share striking resemblance. .

The kids are going to love this. Thank you Kyle and the rest of the Because Science team.

dude river monsters was such a big thing of my childhood and the fact that you acgtually messaged him is so amazing!! jeremy wade himself is awesome too

River Monsters is awesome The Goliath Tiger Fish is awesomely terrifying -- seriously, watch the episode of it. That thing is *_savage_*

Can you defeat Superman if you place him at the bottom of the ocean? Sense theres no light and crushing pressure?

That sigh at 12:39 really sums up the interwebs experience

HAMMOND! That made me chuckle. Thanks, Kyle.

Chernobyl is being saved because of phytoremediation. The DOD use trees to mitigate nuclear burial sites. Also, because of aneuploidy, trees do get “two-headed” so to speak.

FDA Organic food still uses raidiogenic mutagenesis rather than precision editing, in fact...

That Picard maneuver joke was funny af XD

I earned points with my microbiology professor when I told him about the radiotrophic fungi. In the presence of high energy radiation they have a 4x increased ability to reduce NAD+

OMG -- I just realized that Kyle is Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Fungi: Man, after that explosion it’s hard to survive Fungi: *Yo I be eating this now*

That explanation for how big space really is is one of the best I've heard

Lol I figured out the next episode from the hint at the beginning. Can't wait it sounds awesome!

Radiation eating fungi? Sounds like Nausicaa of the valley of the wind.

Even the astronauts on the ISS are under the Sun's weather 🤷‍♂️

I love how goofy Kyle is sometimes and I like to think it's unintentional. Really likable guy.

You watched river monsters and wrote to him too, so cool. Now I need to watch that episode I missed.

You made one mistake Kyle. You just revealed your super villain plan of igniting the atmosphere on fire. Well played.

0:50 that calculation is very interesting does it takes in consideration time dilation, I mean the faster you go the less you age, so is there any scenario where you could go fast enough to go from one end of the known universe to the other? you know in the same just because human fashion that has commanded many pointless endeavors like the first around the world non-stoping flight? amazing content

This was uploaded on my birthday. How did I miss this?!

Thanx for the great shows Kyle

Fungi that use radiation to produce energy? Awesome, now if it becomes bioluminescent then we can make a game theory that all the glowing mushrooms in Skyrim are signs of Nirn being hyper iradiated

So, smashing particles in the large hadron collider. Cool.

My buddies and I (all in the Army) long ago crafted a theory that Jeremy Wade was actually a former member of the SAS and now works for MI-6 with River Monsters just being a cover for him to get into “hot spots” and hard to get places (ie he’s done episodes from the Congo to Israel to Venezuela. It made watching the show even more entertaining coming up with conspiracy theories while watching him fish lol

I always liked the way John Scalzi does space travel in "old Mans War"

We found an organism that eats radiation! *Godzilla: hold my plutonium*

Hey felicity is goooorgeous id take it as a compliment 😂

Yay footnotes. And I actually got on the comments just after the video posted. Ok question time. Do you have a show schedule? I can never seem to catch the live videos “live”

This series of videos got me reading up on the Chernobyl accident. In my reading, I was shocked to find out that the other reactors at the plant were actually in use until 2000, 14 years after the accident. They were all shut down for only like 18 months after the accident before they started Reactor 1 back up. It had just never occurred to me.

Opening is technically wrong. A TNG episode showed a way to travel to the farthest points of the universe in seconds, though they were not able to replicate it without the Traveler...yet. The fastest a warp drive can go under those circumstances was practally teleportation, making Ludicrous Speed look like a slow motion replay 😂🤣🤡

After all this time still waiting for a full episode on The Guyver Bio-Booster Armor...

Finally the only question that I wanted to be answeres so badly

"Or moss miss piglet if you're nasty." Why do I love this sentence so much?!

I love you Kyle

For a second there I thought you were gonna say '16 times the detail'.

Awesome show, love it. Say just a quick one, can you go into detail regarding impulse, and the impulse-momentum relationship please I'm using it to create an equation with regards to martial arts. Thanks in advance if you get around to me. If not, keep up the awesome work :)

Heh. Jeremy Wade reference ftw. "River Monsters with Jeremy Wade" is an absolute gem. You all MUST watch that series, it's fantastic.

Kyle: *makes another phone call* Me: *squinting intensifies*

Yes you do look like Felicity!! Hahaha

Drones! With scissors... my god that had me practically crying from laughter, excellent work.

that felicity smoke bit was hilarious

Kyle is a weird mix of Wade Wilson, Felicity Smoke and Thor

When you're doing the low pitched voice like when you're calling for drones to cut his beard you remind me of Ryan Reynolds.

I think it's so cool seeing info about Chernobyl blowing up (ha) all over the internet right now, thanks to the HBO series i'm assuming. I am an undergrad at UofSC who works in Dr.Mousseau's lab, who authored a couple of the papers in your description in the original video. I mostly look through data collected from trailcams used to track population statistics AKA i creep on animal's private lives all day. We also do research on Fukushima and some land here in SC that was contaminated by nuclear waste dumping prior to modern environmental protection laws.

One of the original "radiation = huge critters" was in the movie "Them". Great movie, gave 11-yr old me nightmares.

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The irony of the Because Science sticker on your computer is not lost on us, *KYLE* Lol. Anyway, your videos are somewhat enjoyable, no point in telling you that though *Because Science* cares not for opinions.

I did the seed irradiation thing in college. I ended up with a squash plant that grew upside down, as in its sense of gravity was upside down. Useless, but interesting.

Thank you for addressing my question, this is a proud day! Also the way you pronounced my youtube username was most excellent and it made my day

The point is, even with warp speed, rush-hour traffic is going to make your morning commute an hour when it should have been 15 minutes.

Kyle Hill: I am here to bestow upon you knowledge so that you may grow and understand! Kyle Hill when asked about how he does his on-screen writing: YOU MAY ASK NO MORE QUESTIONS, I SHALL TELL YOU *_NOTHING!_*

Hey Kyle! I absolutely love this channel. Is there possibly a chance of a video pertaining to Dark Energy and Universal Expansion? Thanks!

"We're gonna shave it " Holy crap! I laughed so loud outside, that my neighbor stopped trimming his hedges to see what was going on. Your awesome!

I mean kyle has told us why we don't want many kinds of super powers but why we don't want to be as a thor.. huh? I think his super plan is to create Thor as the ultimate and the only one superhero

Sorry Kyle, the Hacksmith gave away your secret to how you draw. I only had to mention that I wondered how and he replied to tell me it's a sheet of glass you're drawing on mixed with some post-production to animate it.

First time viewer & instant subscriber. Very informative. Going to watch these with my grandkids.

You mentioned the water bears lost in space great job

So , standing next to Super Saiyan Goku will give me a fatal dosage of radiation right ?

Do you think you could do an explanation on something Jojo-related? Maybe Hamon or Stands?

Hello I do enjoy watching your video you made it easy to understand

Radioactivity and Fungi. My two favorite things in one video. Keep up the good work super nerds and Because Science. 😁

How come Xena’s chakram doesn’t slice her hand open when she’s using it?

If Crispr is fixing a typo in a sentence, eradiation is using a letter scrambler to fix it.

I saw a news segment back in the nineties where they had a radiation eating bacteria and never heard of it again???

A good thing that Star Trek (hardly ever) leave the Milky Way galaxy

I legitimately have been watching star trek TNG all day - unhook yourself from my television, sinister fiend kyle! And if I may kyle, the shirt doesnt fit; BECAUSE SCIENCE

This is a hilarious channel and I am very glad I found it

Haha i chuckled at "marker-wahlberg"