From: prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:28:39 -0700 (PDT), David Winsemius   
    wrote:   
      
   >"Life" has returned, but the bacteria and those equally cunning fungi have   
   not. A reversal of evolution it appears.   
      
   On the TV: There are scientists living and working there (Pripjat, I think)   
   researching exactly whether the leaves rot or not, and the mutations and   
   changes   
   the accident has brought.  And while they were apparently unconcerned about any   
   environmental effects, I'm sure they monitor their dosage -- it is a restricted   
   zone, after all.   
      
   Superficially, nature looks pretty normal, they say. But some birds have a   
   higher malformation rate, and some species of trees have odd leaf shapes more   
   frequently. And some are pretty much unaffected -- I think mice and birches   
   were   
   mentioned.   
      
   There's even a guy that lives near the reactor, and grows his own vegetables in   
   a patch, and eats them. It was made to  look like some rube picked stuff out of   
   the radioactive patch out back of the porch -- and I think the man also enjoyed   
   giving that impression, just a little bit.   
      
   He had carefully measured the uptake of the vegetables, and was careful to eat   
   only those vegetables that were safe. Some concentrate the radioactivity, some   
   don't, so some a perfectly safe -- and some are not. And it's tricky, because   
   some plants will concentrate cesium in leaves, other in the root or in fruit...   
      
   Yeah, not got much to do with nonrotting leaves, but I thought it was   
   interesting stuff.   
      
      
   Thomas Prufer   
      
   Yeah, I know these facts got nothing to do with it, but I add them because I   
   think it was interesting.   
      
   Thomas Prufer   
      
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