K.T. Ramesh

And durans is endurance, is how I remember it.

So this thing can handle a lot of radiation.

Then we shot it at the lowest velocity we could get, which ends up giving us a pressure of around 1.4 GPA in this case.

What I was expecting to hear was that there was nothing left.

And I said, well, there's something wrong here.

You know, it doesn't seem like this is right because we were expecting 10 to the minus six.

So one in a million.

And this is now like one.

So there's probably something not right in the experiment.

And she said, yeah, I think there must be something going on.

So she started all over again and built the whole thing and we did it again.

To me, this was really amazing, right?

So the good thing about science is you have data.

You repeat it, you get the same kinds of data.

All right, now maybe there's something here.

But they think what's happening is that... The bacteria is now spending more time doing damage control.

So it's seen the high stress and it's reacting to that stress and managing itself in various ways.

I have been wonderstruck by how much these things can take.

It's just amazing.

You go from saying this is improbable to, well, it's possible.