Re: tough mf bugs

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2003 - 11:45:27 MDT

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    On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, nanowave wrote:

    > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1019156,00.html

    Ya gotta love this quote:

    > "With this organism we kept ratcheting up the temperature and it just
    > kept surviving until, basically in desperation we put it in an autoclave,
    > which is supposed to kill all living organisms."

    Reminds me of the INDY gene (I'm Not Dead Yet) in drosophila...

    Life is going to be interesting in the future -- rather than commit
    acts of violence, one will simply send people who have annoyed you
    cockroaches that cannot be destroyed by anything less than a
    small nuclear weapon.

    Robert



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