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Spore forming bacterium are notoriously resistant to most ways of killing them. There's even a species that can resist radiation amounts that are 1000x the dose
by weberer 2mo ago
Spore forming bacterium are notoriously resistant to most ways of killing them. There's even a species that can resist radiation amounts that are 1000x the dose needed to kill a human.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
- tippa123 2mo ago> Clues for future search of extremophile microbial life on Mars That paragraph is pretty extraordinary with what is being claimed. Crazy to think that anything could survive 25 kGy.
- k1ko 2mo ago25 kgy, not great, not terrible.
- tippa123 2mo agoWhat would you consider as great?
- platybubsy 2mo agoWAOW I understood that reference! Hahaha that is a REFERENCE that I UNDERSTAND funny lmao
- cobbzilla 2mo agoI want this mutation. You have little nano-crawlers going up and down your DNA strands fixing problems. It’s like ECC RAM for the essence of YOU. And you’re basically immune to cancer.
- dotancohen 2mo agoThat is not how spores work.
- Andrex 2mo agoLet the man dream (and possibly write interesting scifi about it).
- cobbzilla 2mo agoIt is in fact how Deinococcus radiodurans works: Deinococcus radiodurans has a unique quality in which it can repair both single- and double-stranded DNA. When damage is apparent to the cell, it brings the damaged DNA into a compartmental ring-like structure where the DNA is repaired, and then is able to fuse the nucleoids from the outside of the compartment with the damaged DNA.
- 6177c40f 2mo agoHowever, to bring it full circle, Deinococcus radiodurans does not form spores!
- throwuxiytayq 2mo agoThat’s fine, I’d be content with having just the DNA repair nanobots, I don’t need to form spores.
- 6177c40f 2mo agoSuit yourself, I often wish I could form spores, desiccate, and rehydrate at a more appealing time.