Bacteria On Mars Proven To Survive Martian Atmosphere

The Deino (Deinos) prefix and Coccus (Kokkos) suffix is Ancient Greek for “Terrible grain/berry”.

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Radio and Durans are Latin for “Radioactive enduring”. Guinness Book of World Records registered D. Radiodurans as the toughest bacteria known in existence.

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may even be bulletproof, a theory I’d love to test. For science, of course.

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This particular bacteria is the most radioactive-resistant and toughest-surviving strain known to man and we know it as “Conan the Bacterium.

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This type of bacteria is known as a “polyextremophile”

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It can survive being dunked in acid, freezing vacuum, arid dehydration, artillery barrages of deadly radiation

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all the other Arnold Schwarzenegger-like qualities one could dream of. It might even resist being shot at by ballistics like a T-800 Terminator unit

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It’s a miracle anything even survives here to our standards.

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