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Mutant super-cockroaches from space

Posted by liam on January 22, 2008 2:48 PM | 

Does anyone else find this story on the New Scientist blog very scary

According to Russian news agency Novosti, baby cockroaches conceived aboard a satellite in September have apparently grown up to be faster and tougher than their terrestrial brethren.

After all the science fiction showing space flights giving creatures super powers - why would these cosmonauts get permission to take cockroaches into space. Where is the health and safety people?

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