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Cosmic Rays and bacteria?

  • May. 7th, 2008 at 5:05 PM
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I was listening to a story on NPR where they said that kim chee on a space station exposed to cosmic rays could become toxic.

Wha???

Apparently it has something to do with bacteria? Once the bacteria were neutralized by irradiation (but cosmic rays make it toxic??) it was safe to bring onto the space station.

Any of you biologically inclined folks have any idea what the heck they're talking about?

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[info]buddhagrrl wrote:
May. 7th, 2008 09:23 pm (UTC)
I want to hear a story in which kim chee exposed to cosmic radiation becomes sentient!
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[info]purple_dj wrote:
May. 7th, 2008 09:54 pm (UTC)
It's hard to predict what cosmic rays could do to anything! I mean, your kim chee might come back hard as a rock or way too gummy, it might just burst into flames, you might not even be able to see it!
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