The Daily Populous Saturday December 14th, 2024 morning edition
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mufasa329 on December 13rd, 2024 at 19:06 UTC »

It’s astrophage

Phil_McCrack69 on December 13rd, 2024 at 19:49 UTC »

Not great, not terrible.

Spartan2470 on December 13rd, 2024 at 20:33 UTC »

Here is a much higher-quality version of the top image. Here is the source. Credit to the photographer, Pierpaolo Mittica.

> The story behind the photo:

> Yuriy while sandblasting the radioactive scrap metal.

> Inside the zone tons of metals lie abandoned, but over the years all this rusty gold has not gone unnoticed, and more or less illegally was recycled and today continues to be. Tons of metal leave the area each month. Since 2007, the Ukrainian government has legalized the recycling of radioactive metals with the blasting method. The workshop is close to the never finished number 5 and 6 reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a huge warehouse where twelve men clean and recycle radioactive metals. Their work is terribly dangerous, almost a death sentence in slow motion, as it forces the workers to continuously inhale radioactive particles like caesium, strontium and plutonium.

> From the project "Chernobyl Stories" The Ukraine 2014-2019

Here is a much higher-quality and less cropped version of the bottom image. Credit to the photographer, Wikipedia user Medmyco.

> Description: Cladosporium sphaerospermum (UAMH 4745) on potato dextrose agar after incubation for 14 days at 25°C.

> Date 24 March 2005, 09:15:31

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladosporium_sphaerospermum#