Pondering from a mind with too much time on its hands, ehrr fat, uhrhmm cells

[Liquide]

Well we alwys here it and even state it ourselves from time to time, but is the following statement really true?

The only thing that will surivive the darn nuclear holocast is those darn roaches!

So please tell me if this is true or false, and also why I need to know if this is just a myth because it is near impossible to exterminate them or if it actually is true.

 

[the Jester]

If you really have too much time you should join us in the Hivemind thread! I know you've resisted thus far, but the Hivemind is goooood... very gooooood.....

 

[Mark]

If you really have too much time you should join us in the Hivemind thread! I know you've resisted thus far, but the Hivemind is goooood... very gooooood.....

Very, very, very, very gooooood.....

 

[Liquide]

Somehow I feel pattern in all hiveminders minds ehrrr mind I mean, mind sorry.

 

[the Jester]

Somehow I feel pattern in all hiveminders minds ehrrr mind I mean, mind sorry.

You're one too, you just don't know it yet.

C'mon, give it a try.... the first one's free...

 

[Kilmore]

I won't survive a nuclear holocaust, but I'm sure a lot of people will. Why bomb Paraguay?

 

[rigur]

I think it may be based on the fact that they can withstand a lot of radiation before buying it.

"Although cockroaches are not entirely invulnerable to radiation, it does take a great deal of it to do them any damage! While a human can survive an exposure of radiation equal to 5 rems without any ill-effects (a "rem" is the radiation dosage that causes a specific amount of damage to tissue; 800 rems is lethal to humans), the lethal dose for cockroaches is between 67500 (for an American cockroach) and 105000 (for a German one) rems, well within the limit of a typical thermonuclear explosion.

In one experiment, cockroaches were exposed to radiation from an X-ray beam that would kill a human in one second; the roaches survived prolong exposure. Only when exposed to radiation from a source 1000 times greater in intensity did the cockroach finally kick the bucket."
Source:
http://www.scienceweb.org/tv/xfiles.html

 

[Tonguez]

Cockroachers can survive underwater for 3 days and take half an hour to have sex!
Cockroachers have two brains (one in its head and one in its butt) they can survive after the head has been cut off (but eventually starve). Cockroachers can be frozen solid in ice. When the Ice melts they become active again.

Cockroachers are survivors, cockroachers are delicious

Cockroachers are your friends...

 

[alsih2o]

they are still far less likely to survive than certain deep ocean life forms.