There are organisms that use gamma radiation as an energy source. If we lived in an environment richer in naturally occurring radioisotopes, I think I’d expect to see more of this sort of thing—maybe not up to the point of criticality, but maybe so.
Not much point in speculating, really; living on a planet that’s better than four billion years old and of middling metallicity puts something of a damper on the basic biological potential of that pathway.
Not much point in speculating, really; living on a planet that’s better than four billion years old and of middling metallicity puts something of a damper on the basic biological potential of that pathway.
And yet humanity did it, on a much smaller time scale. This is what I’m saying, we are better than evolution at some stuff.
There are organisms that use gamma radiation as an energy source. If we lived in an environment richer in naturally occurring radioisotopes, I think I’d expect to see more of this sort of thing—maybe not up to the point of criticality, but maybe so.
Not much point in speculating, really; living on a planet that’s better than four billion years old and of middling metallicity puts something of a damper on the basic biological potential of that pathway.
And yet humanity did it, on a much smaller time scale. This is what I’m saying, we are better than evolution at some stuff.