T-Rex: Deinococcus radiodurans is one of the most radiation resistant bacterium ever! It can ALSO survive dehydration, exposure to vacuum, and acid being thrown in its face.
T-Rex: It is the T-Rex of the animal world!!
T-Rex: You give this guy enough radiation to kill a dinosaur, and it survives. Then you give it 500 times that dose, and it still shrugs it off! Dudes are friggin' NIGH-INVINCIBLE against radiation. Just like, or so I suspect, myself!
Dromiceiomimus: That's pretty amazing!
T-Rex: Yep! It pulls this off by protecting its repair enzymes from radiation damage, AND by keeping multiple known-good copies of its DNA!
Utahraptor: But there's no place on Earth that even comes CLOSE to having such high radiation levels!
T-Rex: Exactly!
T-Rex: Why would bacteria evolve such effective protection against an entirely nonexistent threat?
Utahraptor: That's what I'm saying.
T-Rex: Unless, of course, the threat actually exists...
T-Rex: ...or should I say - ACTUALLY EXISTED??
Narrator: T-REX'S THEORY:
〚T-Rex imagines a chat log〛
Yorp: pew pew
Deinococcus radiodurans: man, keep shooting me and i'm just gonna evolve defense against lazer beams!
Yorp: pew pew
Deinococcus radiodurans: FINE
Deinococcus radiodurans: ps it's millions of years ago right now
