Great, we now have three-eyed fish

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Fishermen trawling a nuclear-plant-fed reservoir in Córdoba, Argentina have caught a three-eyed wolf fish. Like everyone else who's writing about this story, I'm illustrating this post with a picture of Blinky, the nuclear fish from The Simpsons, because the real fish is super ugly. 

They don't know for sure yet whether the fish's mutation is related to radiation from the power plant. (You'd sorta think it would be, huh? But we believe in the scientific process here.) After all, animals sometimes have truly weird mutations that have nothing to do with humans at all, let alone humans playing around with potentially dangerous energy sources. But the fact that Blinky has long been a tongue-in-cheek shorthand for radiation-based mutation makes it hard to read this as a story about a random physical oddity, and not one about Mr. Burns-style environmental indifference.

[Danno 1,228]

Are you assuming this is the fist time a mutation like this has taken place?

[웃 910]

Edited October 30, 2011 by Lord Infamous

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Fishermen trawling a nuclear-plant-fed reservoir in Córdoba, Argentina have caught a three-eyed wolf fish. Like everyone else who's writing about this story, I'm illustrating this post with a picture of Blinky, the nuclear fish from The Simpsons, because the real fish is super ugly.

They don't know for sure yet whether the fish's mutation is related to radiation from the power plant. (You'd sorta think it would be, huh? But we believe in the scientific process here.) After all, animals sometimes have truly weird mutations that have nothing to do with humans at all, let alone humans playing around with potentially dangerous energy sources. But the fact that Blinky has long been a tongue-in-cheek shorthand for radiation-based mutation makes it hard to read this as a story about a random physical oddity, and not one about Mr. Burns-style environmental indifference.

We've all (life) mutated to get where we are..... thanks to radiation. Radiation (like climate change) was here long before man and will be here long after.

Ain't science fun.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You heard that right, kids. Radiation is good for you! Go out find your own uranium treasure underground.

[Amby 490]

And the cyclops shark! We're all going to die!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

No photo because the fish is ugly? Are the two eyed fish ugly or just the three eyed version?

No scientific data but lets base our conclusions on a cartoon. Should be pretty easy to determine if the lake is contaminated or the fish is. We look forward to your continuing updates.

[kytwell 179]

You heard that right, kids. Radiation is good for you!

To someone that may be receiving cancer therapy, you're right it is.

Radioactivity is a part of our earth, it has existed all along. Naturally occurring radioactive materials are present in its crust, the floors and walls of our homes, schools, or offices and in the food we eat and drink. There are radioactive gases in the air we breathe. Our own bodies muscles, bones, and tissue, contain naturally occurring radioactive elements. I had to take a class on it as we have radiation detectors at all trash transfer stations, landfills and trash to steam plants in the state here. Gamma are the only ones we're really worried about when we get a "hot" load, as they can "penetrate" the body, unless properly dressed to handle it.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

In the right measure, a lot of natural substances are innocuous, but can be deadly with enough exposure.

There are some who dismiss the dangers of too much atmospheric CO2 because "it's plant food."

[luckytxn 2,264]

Wonder what it tastes like.