Mysterious “white web” found growing on nuclear waste

I’ll leave it to you to decide what’s strange about it. Cob-webs around here are the norm. Maybe it has something to do with the nuclear waste part of things. Old Jules

22 responses to “Mysterious “white web” found growing on nuclear waste

  1. Do I need one more creepy thing to think about?

    • Life in the Boomer Lane: Probably you don’t. It was with you in mind I provided the immediately previous to this one post about the Christmas and 2012 greeting from the time department as an alternative to something creepy. Gracias, Jules

  2. Interesting…..verrrrrryyyy interesting.

  3. Old Jules, methinks the good folk at the plant don’t think it natural for nuclear waste to develop cobwebs. Now I’m thinking, should I be concerned there are so many cobwebs in my home? 🙂

    • Bella: Thanks for coming by. My thought is you probably needn’t. Consider the fact you’ve almost certainly never seen the actual creature making a cob-web. We only have the word of pointee-headed biologists and zoooologists they’re made by spiders instead of something else. I’m guessing they’re guessing, and they’re wrong. Cob-web makers just happen to like making cob-webs in places where something in your home has something in common with a nuclear waste site. Gracias, Jules

  4. Perhaps it is not spider webs, but mycelia threads from a fungus that has evolved to eat the spent fuel. That might be very useful… I’d be a lot happier if we would forget all this nonsense and just start using wind and solar!

    • melissablue: What you’ve suggested about mycelia threads from a fungus is entirely possible in some way similar to the proposition they’re there at all and are either something alive, or the product of something alive. But that proposition opens up a whole room full of other possibilities roughly equal in stature, to any other. Gracias, Jules

  5. interesting to say the least (~_~)

  6. Hummm…Now there appear from time to time cobwebs in my pantry above the hot water heater. There are no spiders and not sticky like spider webs have. Anywhere natural gas or propane is used to heat or cook I have seen these cobwebs. Maybe there is a relationship between them and the ones in the storage pools? Especially as one would not expect to see life in either place.

    • Mary: Now you’re cooking with gas, as the saying used to say. I wonder what that meant? I’m thinking cobwebs might just be the key to something important. But maybe not important to anything much. Gracias, Jules

  7. an unidentified fungal object 🙂

  8. this reminds me that my fridge could use a good culling of those freaky new life forms growing in it….

  9. I’m surprised how long we continue to mess with Mother Nature and that she hasn’t wiped us all out, although lately, it seems she’s been rather displeased.

  10. I need a can of this stuff to shoot like silly-string. But then the cops would steal my idea and we’d all be screwed. Or, maybe they’d spray us down, then we’d all go mutant and have us a good ol’ mutant uprising!

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