intriguing! radiation= : (

[SephirothFF7]

Oh one more thing, props for secret Zombie Room SG, it kicks.

[Anticrombie0909]

Probably the reason why cockroaches are somewhat immune to radiation (and everything else) is because they are some of the oldest creatures on earth. Ancestors of cockroaches were around with dinosaurs, and they've had a lot of time to evolve. Technically, they're some of the most perfectly evolved creatures on earth. They can sustain themselves with very little food and water, they grow immune to poisons and insecticides very quickly, and they can survive for up to a week with their head cut off or their heart ceasing to beat (true). It's why they are so hard to get rid of, and why everybody hates them so much.

[Master_of_PARANOiA]

I'd be more afraid of Scorpions, which are actually COMPLETELY immune to a nuclear blast and the radiation. Theoretically you could drop a nuke on a scorpion and it wouldn't die, plus scorpions have stingers. And SG, if we stop cutting down trees the insects WILL get bigger. May I recall the early Triassic period where there was an abundance of trees and there were cockroaches and scorpions up to 6' in length...

yes but not 'scorpions' and 'cockroaches', they're ancestorys maybe, but not scorpions and cockroaches that you see today

there were also millipedes (several hundred legged bugs) that were like 10 feet in length and 6 feet high. I wish I had one of those as a pet

scenario in school:
{
bully: yo kid, gimme your money

me: I have a better idea, how bout you give me your money, then my giant millipede eats you

*bully looks up*

bully: aw fck...
}
that would own

[Lupin_the_3rd]

this is the critical thinking forum. thank you

[Master_of_PARANOiA]

oh, sry about that.. but it would kick ass to have something that hugemongus as a pet

[VxDx]

NOTHING can survive a direct nuclear blast. The heat is upwards of 100000000 F and that will instantly vaporize everything.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

never mind the 500mph+ winds after the blast...

at the focal point of the explosion, the surface is hotter than the sun...so why not send cockroaches and scorpions to the sun?

[Anticrombie0909]

why not send cockroaches and scorpions to the sun?

Lupe's right. Worldwide purging of the bugs! We'll round them up and send them into the sun! Death to all!

Wait...this sounds strangely familiar to Nazis...O NOS WE BECAME TEH NAZIS (or maddox)!

[Master_of_PARANOiA]

hmm, if the sun's corona is 1.7 million degrees celsius, and a nuclear explosion is 1 million degrees farenheit.. which is hotter?

sure something that could survive a nuclear blast could survive on the sun's protosphere, but it would have to bypass the 1,700,000 °C corona. the protosphere is only 6000° celsius, that's barely 1/85th (didn't do all the math, but it's around that) of a nuclear explosion, but the corona is about 3.5x (yet again, close but I didn't do the math) hotter than a nuclear explosion

not to mention that no spaceship alive could handle that heat, so we couldnt send anything there, should cockroaches/scorpions be able to withstand that heat

[VxDx]

"At the hypocenter, everything is immediately vaporized by the high temperature (up to 500 million degrees Fahrenheit or 300 million degrees Celsius). Outward from the hypocenter, most casualties are caused by burns from the heat, injuries from the flying debris of buildings collapsed by the shock wave, and acute exposure to the high radiation."

[Lupin_the_3rd]

hmm, if the sun's corona is 1.7 million degrees celsius, and a nuclear explosion is 1 million degrees farenheit.. which is hotter?

sure something that could survive a nuclear blast could survive on the sun's protosphere, but it would have to bypass the 1,700,000 °C corona. the protosphere is only 6000° celsius, that's barely 1/85th (didn't do all the math, but it's around that) of a nuclear explosion, but the corona is about 3.5x (yet again, close but I didn't do the math) hotter than a nuclear explosion

not to mention that no spaceship alive could handle that heat, so we couldnt send anything there, should cockroaches/scorpions be able to withstand that heat

do you even do any research or did you pull that out of your ass?

and about the space ship: if you got the space ship to go in that general direction, sure it would burn up, but the "invincible" cockroaches wouldn't and would be pulled in by the sun's gravity and they could have like a party. This of course is assuming that the sun doesn't blow them back out into space which is, of course false

[Master_of_PARANOiA]

omg.. you do realize that there is no pressure in space right? the cockroaches might be able to withstand radiation, but without pressure they'd just come apart

and I did research that, the temperatures came out of my earth science textbook. the math I did in my head which is why it might not be so good. and I didn't spend time checking it

[Lupin_the_3rd]

omg.. you do realize that there is no pressure in space right? the cockroaches might be able to withstand radiation, but without pressure they'd just come apart

yes, but they would have magical space suits on silly

we are talking about it theoretically, which is of course ridiculous- Nothing can withstand that heat anyway

[Master_of_PARANOiA]

yeah, lol