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This is absolutely fascinating! Well worth a listen!
Post-apocalyptic genetic mutants are one of our favorite ways of scaring ourselves. But this crazy story challenges some of our basic sci-fi assumptions about what happens to human DNA when it's exposed to gamma rays. Cuz it's not like some of us haven't already lived through a nuclear bomb, right? What about two?! Yes, that really happened. Nothing stranger than real life, people. Listen in!
http://www.upworthy.com/his-dna-was-shredded-by-2-atomic-bombs-so-what-happened-when-he-had-kids?c=ufb1
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)It sounds quite interesting, but alas, no sound capability here.
Quixote1818
(28,959 posts)uppityperson
(115,678 posts)That was something, what happened to him. It is interesting, comparing lack of dna damage from nuke bombs to radiation after nuke plant issue. Thank you for the links. I can not imagine what he thought when Nagasaki got bombed. "wtf? again? stop, just stop"?
LuvNewcastle
(16,855 posts)Why do most of our defects have to be on the inside, for Gawd's sake?
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Sam Kean devotes nearly a chapter to this case.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Amazing! Who knew?