[cobbzilla]

I want this mutation. You have little nano-crawlers going up and down your DNA strands fixing problems. It’s like ECC RAM for the essence of YOU. And you’re basically immune to cancer.

[dotancohen]

That is not how spores work.

[cobbzilla]

It is in fact how Deinococcus radiodurans works:

    Deinococcus radiodurans has a unique quality in which it can repair both single- and double-stranded DNA. When damage is apparent to the cell, it brings the damaged DNA into a compartmental ring-like structure where the DNA is repaired, and then is able to fuse the nucleoids from the outside of the compartment with the damaged DNA.

[6177c40f]

However, to bring it full circle, Deinococcus radiodurans does not form spores!

[throwuxiytayq]

That’s fine, I’d be content with having just the DNA repair nanobots, I don’t need to form spores.

[6177c40f]

Suit yourself, I often wish I could form spores, desiccate, and rehydrate at a more appealing time.

[defrost]

Well, photophosphorylate me all night long

~ Mae West, Little Shop of Horrors, Broadway (1958)

[Andrex]

Let the man dream (and possibly write interesting scifi about it).

[neonstatic]

> It’s like ECC RAM for the essence of YOU

Buddha would like a word with you

[linker3000]

So if, say, you were completely irradiated - every atom of your being - and fully repaired, would you still be 'you'?

/Is that a transporter energizing I hear?