Rats & Spiders

[Kyajae]

I'm sitting here witnessing 3 permies discussing the premis that only rats and spiders can survive the radiation from a nuclear bomb. Acording to one of the participants, he read it in a book by James Herbert.

A job for Mythbusters?

[SallyAnne]

he read it in a book by James Herbert.

probably whilst being at work....fecking permies

[Burdock]

And there's that bacterium that lives in the pipes of nuclear reactors b. radiodurans or somesuch.

..that's gotta be one of the crappier organisms to be eh?

must have screwed up big time in former life!

[Captain Dispensable]

Evolution dictates that we all start out as those tiny organisms. Give it a few million years and they'll probably be running the show, long after we've wiped everything else off the face of the earth.

Mother nature always has a plan B and you can bet it's a damn site better than any you've heard on here!

[XTC]

Are u stuck working with nerds too? I went out (reluctantly) with the 'gang' from work who proclaim themselves as mad and wacky (god help me). The night was spent talking about the benefits of Linux over Windows and other such stimulating chatter.

[XTC]

I'm sitting here witnessing 3 permies discussing the premis that only rats and spiders can survive the radiation from a nuclear bomb. Acording to one of the participants, he read it in a book by James Herbert.

A job for Mythbusters?

And it's cockroaches that will be the survivors.

[Ruprect]

The dinosaur is right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrococcus_radiodurans

seems you do something other than spending the whole day on here then diny?

[wendigo100]

Mother nature always has a plan B and you can bet it's a damn site better than any you've heard on here!

sight

Anyway, I thought the human race was plan B - after the giant lizards got wiped out?

And how much fire, tools, wheels and so on did those lizards invent, eh?

[Kyajae]

Are u stuck working with nerds too? I went out (reluctantly) with the 'gang' from work who proclaim themselves as mad and wacky (god help me). The night was spent talking about the benefits of Linux over Windows and other such stimulating chatter.

This lot I work with collect spatulas for a hobby. And they're all Trekkie fans.

[threaded]

sight

Anyway, I thought the human race was plan B - after the giant lizards got wiped out?

And how much fire, tools, wheels and so on did those lizards invent, eh?

It could be that oil and coal was the lizards trying to do something about climate change....