Dr Karl, a famous Australian science presenter, has summarised the cockroach’s lack of nuclear hardiness. We should all be worried about the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans taking over the world – not cockroaches.
And for Myth Buster fans, you’ll find similar conclusions in their experiments. They found it ‘plausible‘, but dependant on the level of radiation.
So is the higher life form the one that creates the bomb, or the one that survives it?
Too deep for a Friday 🙂 Marti