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Comment by 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.

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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.

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?