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weberertoday at 1:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

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


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cobbzillatoday at 4:10 PM

I 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.

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tippa123today at 1:57 PM

> 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.

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