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INTAKE. 962 assessments on file. 2 subjects admitted in 24 hours.

Too few assessments on record to report a sample without indicating who supplied it. The instrument remains on.

GLOBAL INSTITUTE OF GOONABILITY RESEARCH
RESEARCH SUBJECT #67367
Cockroaches After a Nuclear Disaster
Plate 1 — Photo: steve lodefink, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Animals

Cockroaches After a Nuclear Disaster

Resilient insect. Survival partially confirmed.

RESEARCH NOTES

Cockroaches as survivors of a nuclear catastrophe, a popular belief tested in 2008 on MythBusters, where some withstood radiation doses that would kill a human. At the highest dose tested, none survived.

Would You Goon?

0 = ABSOLUTELY NOT · 10 = UNCONDITIONALLY

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