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RE: Bugs In the News: Bacteria boozing it up in NASA clean rooms

in #steemstem7 years ago

Super bugs is kind of hard to define, but they certainly are hardy and adaptable.
If they were dormant, they probably wouldn't evolve much. My guess is that, if active, they'd retain and maybe enrich strategies to cope with low nutrients & moisture, and high radiioactive stress. Maybe heat/cold shock tolerance. Long enough, and they might lose the genetic pathways to take advantage of other foodstocks.