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Low-effort semi-artist, microbiologist, creepy things enjoyer, malevolent podcast hater

For now not really into interactions with people, sry

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Lovecraft and related

Rammstein (and Lindemann in particular)

The Mask of The Rose

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We saw the idea that the Colour of of Space was some sort of radioactive isotope, as its effects on the farm and the family are eerily close to radiaton sickness and nuclear fallout contamination. And honestly it makes more and more sense the more we learn about the dangers of ioninsing radiation. It might have even come from an alien civilization that blew itself apart with nuclear weapons.

Any thoughts?

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Even the whole "mysterious colour, unlike any seen on Earth" makes some sense too, as gamma rays are photons. So while it wouldn't be a colour by itself, it is somewhat similar to what colours visible to the human eye are. And when the ionising radiation is strong enough, it can glow blue. On top of that, the meteor is described as warm and not cooling down with time, another common trait of some nuclear materials. The demon core was warm to the touch even when far from criticality after all.

So this theory makes more and more sense to us with time.

And in Cthulhu Mythos there are civilizations powerful and advanced enough to blow themselves apart with nuclear weapons and spread enough contamination of various kinds to reach other planets. Like, Elder things, the Yith, Mi-Go probably could try to pull such a thing off.

It probably couldn't be any of them, as the destruction of Yuggoth would be noticed. A whole planet missing from the Solar System is quite visible and easy to spot. The Yith and Elder things are long gone, and they were on Earth. Yaddith is way too far away in space and time.

So it couldn't really be any of the folks we know.

That being said, many civilisations in this universe, including humans, show at least potential for total nuclear annihilation. So it's not too out of the ordinary to think one of them found their demise with their irradiated remains still floating through space.

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As @literarycrow mentioned in a small Cthulhu Mythos community, the meteorite also shrunk with time, meaning it must have had a short half life, quickly breaking down into lighter isotopes. It glowing magenta is a cool idea of hers too, but it would need to be a new isotope, as stuff like plutonium glows blue.

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Any thoughts on the topic?

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My theory was rather biological bc I’m microbiologist, so I see biology everywhere yeah xd

So my theory was, that except for radioactive isotopes (and prob heavy metals), there were some spores (yeah, spores can survive really harsh conditions) of something like Streptomyces or slime mold bc of its mode of action—secretion of proteolytic and other „digestive” enzymes + it basically can form a large net of mycelium in the soil

And if for living organisms from the Earth radioactive isotopes and heavy metals are toxic bc of blocking the activity of different enzymes (for heavy metals) or damaging of cell components (for isotopes), the organism from the meteorite is okay with that

Funfact: there’s a bacterium which is resistant to radiation, it’s called Deinococcus radiodurans

So I guess, heavy metals + radioactive isotopes which were washed into the soil by the rain + forming of mycelium-like structures could have turned the area near the house into the wasteland for a very long time

And if it goes about the diseases of animals, they could have been caused by several factors: radiation/heavy metals poisoning itself, weakened immune system by this poisoning -> organism can be attacked by its own microbiota, mutation of non-pathogenic soil bacteria as an effect of radiation (so there’s a possibility that some of them may have become pathogenic)

And if it goes about shrinking, I guess, it’s because meteorites can also contain water (which is in solid state in space, obviously)—but here I’m not sure, I’m not an astronomist or something xd