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Tom wrote:I've also heard that they could survive a nuclear fallout, but who knows the truth until it actually happens (and I hope a nuclear fallout does not happen anytime soon).

Actually they couldn't survive a nuclear fallout.

The only thing that would survive is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans

The King wrote:Actually they couldn't survive a nuclear fallout.

How do you know? Was not it proven that they could?

Actually cockroaches surviving nuclear Apocalypses is basically the urban equivalent as alligators in the sewer.

It comes from a myth about a scientist conducting an experiment which had a radioactive byproduct, the byproduct was scooped up into a bag, along with a few roaches, and thrown into a dumpster.

Somewhere along down the line, the roaches find their way into a cereal box, in which a surprised person realized that they were in a bag with nuclear waste, so that's where it comes from. So, no; it hasn't been proven. Unless if you want to.

Huh.

Nuclear fallout surviving roaches don't exist!

That's not what Fallout 3 taught me to believe. By the bye, has anyone else notice that the word "lie" is in the word "believe"?

What are you trying to say?

ATHIEST!!!


... totally jk.

The Ninja wrote:ATHIEST!!! :o

We're a pretty cool bunch of people. ;p

Kestral, lets not pull any kind of religion-P:correct theory into this, please. (I know it was a joke, but still. Zip.)

Please explain how some little facts thread became and argument over nuclear cockroaches. 'Sides, I have my own thesis on how we are all going to blow up anyway. :p

As far as I'm concerned, many of these facts aren't even proven to be true. Still, it's fun to read and contemplate some of the more interesting ones, whether they're fact or fiction.

200 nuclear cochroaches die every year from polar bears.