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Comment by weberer

11 hours 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

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cobbzilla  9 hours ago

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.

  • dotancohen  8 hours ago

    That is not how spores work.

    • cobbzilla  7 hours ago

      It 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.

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  • neonstatic  8 hours ago

    > It’s like ECC RAM for the essence of YOU

    Buddha would like a word with you

    • linker3000  4 hours ago

      So if, say, you were completely irradiated - every atom of your being - and fully repaired, would you still be 'you'?

      /Is that a transporter energizing I hear?