2006-11-15 09:14:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
(this is to chefzilla65) i konw they cant suvive the blast thats why i said after, not during.
2006-11-15 23:26:38 · update #1
It's not the blast itself they can survive...nothing can survive that really...what they can survive though is the radioactive fallout from the blast...it seems the little buggers have a very high tolerance to radiation
2006-11-15 09:18:54 · answer #1 · answered by chefzilla65 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not true. They are a little better at surviving radiation than humans, but they are nothing like fruit flies and certain parasitic wasps. Immature German cockroaches fold their tent after exposure to as little as 7 rads or so, and some adult roaches can handle up to 1000 or so (humans exposed to between 800 and 1500 die slow and agonizing deaths). The fruit fly can take up to 64,000 rads, but the wasp Habrobracon can handle more than 180,000 rads, and certain kinds of bacteria can survive exposure to as much as 1,500,000 rads.
One thing I know from experience - not research - is that you can't kill roaches by microwaving them. I've tried. Not sure why that is.
2006-11-15 17:28:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a record where some roaches had lived in a exray generator for years ,no problem.
2006-11-15 17:27:12 · answer #3 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
super strong exo-skeleton
2006-11-15 17:22:07 · answer #4 · answered by Speedy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it seems that they are resistant to radiation.
read the link
2006-11-15 17:19:12 · answer #5 · answered by LaMathrick B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋