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We have found life in every environment we have explored on Earth. That includes surviving high radiation environments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococ
by tastyfreeze 3y ago
We have found life in every environment we have explored on Earth. That includes surviving high radiation environments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
- asdff 3y agoRadiodurans probably still has some limit where the rate of radiation is higher than its ability to repair fragmented DNA, at which point things snowball and the DNA is quickly broken down to its constituent bases and there would be no template at all in which to initiate any repair.