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Fungi: mycelia, mushrooms & more
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Umm..
What exactly is this fungus supposed to grow -on-? Is it consuming dirt or what? The article didn’t say as far as I could tell.
Like, cool idea and stuff, but fungi are decomposers, and afaik mars doesn’t have much to decompose..
And really any other material (like human waste or something) would take ages to accumulate enough to grow a structure from..