As mentioned before, big guys like Godzilla, eating animals and plants is not enough to offset their own consumption, so the film design is very logical and consistent, do you know what energy they eat to live? On nuclear energy!! But this is a movie after all, and it seems that no living thing in nature can survive by absorbing nuclear energy...
However, the history of this point of view has been rewritten! At least one exception, that is, the gold mining fungus Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator (Candidatus pendant means tentative species), they are a magical species living in the Mponeng gold mine 1500-3000 meters underground in South Africa, in terms of volume up to 0.004mm, in fact, it is not small.
However, 3,000 meters underground there is no sunlight, no oxygen, and lack of water, and gold ore bacteria rely on radioactive metals uranium, plutonium, potassium and so on! For example, uranium-238 will release hydrogen ions during fission, and gold ore bacteria will absorb these hydrogen ions and eat other sulfur-containing substances, and eventually synthesize hydrogen sulfide, from which gold ore bacteria obtain energy.
Although this is different from Godzilla's direct absorption of nuclear radiation, it is already an almost unimaginable existence in the biological world!
The temperature of the place where the gold ore bacteria live is about 60 °C or more, the PH value is 9.3, and there is almost no water, and after all, the gold ore bacteria have 2157 genes, and there is no variation in the company of high-intensity nuclear radiation day and night, which is difficult to understand ~ Perhaps it is related to the fact that they will form bacterial endospores to form resistance to high temperature, strong alkali, and strong pressure environment!
Interestingly, the name of the gold mining fungus was only announced in 2008, and it is taken from a Latin secret phrase from Verne's "Adventures in the Center of the Earth": Descende, audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges! (Go down, brave adventurers, you will enter the underworld), so with the first few words as a connection, their scientific name is Desulforudis audaxviator, so some translations call them "downward adventure fungi" ~
Postscript: Although our exploration of the earth's surface has almost reached the level of no dead ends, as far as the underwater world and the underground world are concerned, it is almost just beginning, of course, we must maintain a sense of awe and not destroy their home before we find them
#Monster Calendar# 2023.09.21Gold Mine
