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Who is most likely to survive a nuclear war?

Cockroaches - the answer is wrong.

Why so many stubbornly hold on to the opinion that cockroaches are indestructible is a topic of great interest in itself. Cockroaches have been trampling the planet for much longer than you and I (approximately 280 million years), and have earned universal hatred as vectors of infection that are terribly difficult to get rid of. Plus, these creatures can live a week even without a head. And yet the cockroach can be defeated! In addition, after a truly groundbreaking study by Drs. Wharton and Wharton in 1959, we know that the cockroach will be one of the first insects to produce oak in a nuclear disaster.

What is the merit of these two scientists? The Whartons engaged in exposing a range of insects to varying levels of radiation. As a result, doctors came to the conclusion that if a dose of 1000 rads is fatal for a person, then a cockroach will die at 20 rads, a fruit fly - at 000 rads, and a parasitic wasp - only at 64 rads.

The real queen of radiation endurance is the bacterium Deinococcus radio-durans, which can withstand a truly colossal dose of radiation - 1,5 million rads. And this is if it is not frozen, since in the frozen state the radiation resistance of the bacterium doubles.

This miracle bacterium - affectionately nicknamed "Conan" - is pink in color and smells like rotten cabbage. When it was first discovered, it was growing quietly in a can of irradiated canned meat.

Since then, the study of bacteria has come to grips with. It turned out that in nature, baby Conan is found not only in elephant excrement and llama poop, but also in irradiated fish, duck meat and even granite from Antarctica.

The Konan bacterium's resistance to radiation and low temperatures, as well as its ability to keep its DNA intact even under the most extreme conditions, convinced NASA scientists that they finally had a clue to the mystery of life on Mars.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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