Would Cockroaches Actually Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse?

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[@chaoslab]

The only thing left after WWIII will be a Nokia cell phone some where on the planet which would still be a 100% functional,. maybe with a slightly scratched screen.

[@harjutapa]

Pest control tech here. Cockroaches aren't actually all that difficult to kill. They're resistant to chemical pesticides, but any pest control professional has plenty of other means at their disposal that work just fine. The reason cockroaches have become such a byword for survivability is because, AS A SPECIES, they're hard to get rid of once they've established a decent sized population in a building, which they usually do before anyone notices them. They breed so quickly that once they have a foothold, killing them by the dozens or even hundreds isn't always enough. Their resistance to pesticides is also related to their fast breeding, as time between generations is very low, allowing for rapid mutation. So yeah. Individual cockroaches aren't anything special in my field, but once there's a big infestation, it's a chore to erase them all.

[@Neal_Schier]

Great info! What do pest control professionals then do to eradicate large populations of them? I know there are studies underway to genetically modify mosquitos so as to be unable to reproduce. Is there work afoot to do the same to cockroaches and the like?

[@FairbrookWingates]

On behalf of those of us who shudder at the sight of cockroaches and other pests in our homes, thank you for your work!

[@brytekru7946]

I’ve found that Gnats or noseeums which also have many types and go by many names are the hardest to get rid of. They have actually had people bitten by them on top of Mount Everest because they can hibernate for years and then just enough sunlight and they are flying around looking for that specific blood type they like which is also so weird. I had a client get infested with them that had the blood type they thirst for and they are so hard to see it took months and at least 10s of thousands of dollars partially because they had a 14000 sqft home

[@lejibus]

@@Neal_Schier I'm also a former pest control tech. What we did for a big enough infestation was first go in with a special backpack vacuum to physically remove as many as possible. We called it a 'suck out'. Then use some bait that the roaches would eat and bring back to the young, this often has a growth regulation component to it, so that it affected their breading and growth stages. Lastly I would spray in a few areas mainly to deter the roaches from spreading further. The process for smaller infestations was mostly the same without the vacuum. This process took a few months sometimes, I'd switch bait types to try to prevent immunities.

[@liberatetheforks]

Wouldn't releasing a similar number of praying mantis do the job? The mantis can easily kill, and be relocated outside after.

[@keithweiss7899]

I’ve been a hardware electronics technician for over 50 years. Many times I have found cockroaches inside of radios when I opened them. They are able to live off of various waxes and sealers used inside of them. Many time they were much too large to leave through tiny holes in the radios. So I assume they entered when they were very young and grew up inside of them.

[@peterpop-off]

What a terrible life

[@peterpop-off]

Or a great one..

[@stacyrussell460]

Interesting & kinda gross

[@chadwhitesel242]

@@peterpop-off depends on the type of music they had to listen to

[@MrJC1]

@@chadwhitesel242 hahaahaha do they even have ears? Probably didn't care and just lounged around eating wax and getting high off the chemicals as the components warmed. I assume the OP released them? Or did he just think... "cockroaches are in here... ah well" and screw it back together and go on life? 🤣

[@jonathansellers793]

I personally find it quite funny how often this guy gets sponsored by Keeps.

[@obelic71]

Simple he is the best advertisment for explaining what happens when you dont use their products. Don't be just like Simon ( creating a hairless dessert on your head ) And also it means that the advertisment department of Keeps has a good sense of humor. Kuddos for Keeps and Simon them.

[@darondax]

I ain’t ever met a cockroach that was resistant to the hard, swift smack of a shoe.

[@thinkinyblinko6666]

Just wait till you see the ones they got in Arizona state penitentiary those things are bred for war

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

I've met a few that can resist one or two smacks from a boot.

[@canadiannomad4088]

I always assumed they would survive mostly due to where they live... Underground and in sewage lines... Likely places that get minimal exposure during an explosion.

[@zogar8526]

Yeah, pretty much. And then combined with their small size and generalist nature meaning they can eat anything left around and don't need to much of it, they are likely to actually survive it. They aren't especially restiant to the radiation or anything, and that will still kill them pretty fast. But they will better avoid it, and then be better able to survive the after effects too.

[@Pecisk]

Also we don't have that many nukes to cover ground with blast zones. And fallout zones are downwind so chances for them to survive ar high. Humans will survive war too. They might not survive nuclear winter.

[@chabis]

@@Pecisk Nuclear winter is indeed more of a problem, I guess. There are no missiles programmed to bomb the middle of deserts, tiny islands, oceans, rain forests or remote mountains so lots of animals and many humans will be far enough from direct hits. But the global weather may be messed up for decades.

[@sebm2767]

For some truly bonkers levels of radioresistance look at the Sahara scorpion. Also the mechanism of resistance of D. radiodurans is amazing in itself, since they are capable of removing the damaged parts of their DNA before replication.

[@jayceewedmak9524]

Good grief! 😲 I'll look it up - thanks!

[@warbrain1053]

That could be a useful proprety for humans -

[@obelic71]

Makes sense to evolve such a survival tactic as a species in an area you are bombarded with solar radiation. Nature always finds away to exploit every niche and thrive.

[@nugboy420]

7:26 RIP Grant!! 😢 it’s been a while since I thought of you, but you are so missed!!!

[@JeffKing310]

Simon’s confirmed Twinkies and cockroaches. Now to examine the third part of the everlasting triumvirate- Keith Richards.

[@danielreuben1058]

I'm quite surprised at how well the butterflies and moths cultures did in the experiments. I've always assumed they were much more fragile.

[@pamelamays4186]

Keith Richards: Am I a bloody joke to you?

[@jessicasuchy7850]

Simon doing Keeps commercials makes me giggle every time

[@davidbernau8315]

Im kind of thinking it is more related to their ability to hide and scavenge than any resilience to radiation. Plus their ability to adapt to various pesticides quickly and develop resistance quickly over generations would probably come into play as well. No matter how many you seem to kill, there is always always always one more. And if you see one, there are one hundred you don't see.

[@marc-andreservant201]

Nuclear radiation, apart from a very short neutron pulse at the moment of the blast, does not cause things to become radioactive themselves. Sealed food that was packaged before the blast would be safe to eat assuming you avoid cross-contamination. Twinkies would actually become safer, because the gamma rays would kill any microbes while not affecting the nutrient content.

[@Pecisk]

Also nuclear blasts are very short in radiation exposure. Majority of life would actually survive war itself. Nuclear winter is another problem though.

[@valiroime]

_Nutrient content_ ??? In a TWINKIE?!?!?! Ahhahahahahahahahahahahaha… umm… yeah, sure, okay. 😃😂🤣

[@tinafoster8665]

Hmm, but some of the compounds in the twinkie may be changed isomerically if the gamma level is high enough, and definitely if there's neutrons. Alpha, fast moving helium ion n beta or free electron radiation may alter the chemistry of the food if the amount of particles is high enough

[@zaubermaus8190]

what about tardigrades? they are true survivors in any other kind of scenario, so what about surviving radioactivity? also: today *I* found out, that simon once made videos for the VisualPolitik EN channel, which i also am subscribed to... what a nice coincidence :)

[@ToaArcan]

Tardigrades are hilarious because they've evolved to be immune to literally everything except what they're likely to encounter in life. They can survive being blasted into space, but they get wiped out in droves by _garden snails._

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

Simon has been on the internet before there was an internet.

[@MUNDAYthe13th]

2 people you should never trust. A skinny cook, and a bald man selling hair products. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 sorry for the bad joke. Love your channel man.

[@tinafoster8665]

I disagree, Simon isn't saying he's using the product, just said it works for some guys. And like dopers and pedophiles guys with male pattern baldness seem to hang out together LOL besides I think Simon likes having the badass white guy bald head at the same time as having the outrageous General Longstreet Confederate beard lol

[@larchman4327]

I was trying to make tea at a friend's house one time put cup in microwave for 220 seconds when it was done I noticed a cockroach running around in there that was gross. I don't have them in my place so I wasn't expecting that.

[@qualandrew201494]

unfriend them eww

[@BA-gn3qb]

I would have added more time to the microwave.

[@larchman4327]

Yeah never went back there. But didn't unfriend them. Good friends are hard to come by.

[@larchman4327]

@@BA-gn3qb I don't torture anything even a cockroach. I smashed it.

[@Khalrua]

I only microwave my cup for 2 minutes otherwise it will boil

[@ptrgreeny]

One thing I know will outlast cockroaches...all the little plastic bags used to pick up my dog's poop will still be sitting in a landfill.

[@samazon52]

5:10 I don't think that's a fruit fly. It looks more like a housefly. Fruit flies are quite dainty.

[@mudmen3]

I had a sudden invasion of them, the big ones (they call them "waterbugs" but all they are is big roaches) turns out that when they guy installed my new stove he punched a hole in the wall to put a plug in, and that's where they came from

[@jenniferpingleton8389]

Palmettos?

[@mudmen3]

@@jenniferpingleton8389 yea, i think thats what some people call them, look exactly the same but twice as large as a normal roach and just as disgusting

[@colombianguy8194]

Periplaneta Americana (american Cockroach, palmetto Bug). Quite common here in Colombia, along with the Australian Cockroach and German Cockroach, the last ones are a total nightmare, they destroy everything!!!!

[@jenniferpingleton8389]

@@mudmen3 not only that, but the nasty things FLY!! We have them here too, but only in high summer usually.

[@colombianguy8194]

@@jenniferpingleton8389 yep, flying monsters! Those are common all year around in my city. In the Colombian Jungle, well... Let's say we have some interesting Roaches, 😂

[@stevenj9970]

Though I'm losing hair on my head, but BACK HAIR is flourishing!!!!! I'm gonna try a comb over (way over.........)

[@hyperactivehyperbole]

You got me Simon, you totally got me. I was avoiding this video at first because it had to do with creepy crawlers, but I can only hold out so long from a new video from you. Then a thumbnail of a cockroach pops. Ok, it’s a video about them, I was prepared for this. BUT not the one that crawled all over the screen! In my head I knew it was part of the video and not on my phone, but some primordial instinct caused my brain to flatline and I let loose a scream so loud I woke up the entire household. 🤣 love your vids, I will on the look out next time in my defense it’s 5 a.m. ✌🏻Love your channels

[@kgmsosa8230]

Wtf is hp & why is it at the start of your videos titles now?

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Cockroaches might have small numbers of chromosomes, but the fruitfly has only 4 chromosomes. It might be fruitful (pun intended) to study the longevity and resistance of chromosomal telomeres. Perhaps the simpler genetics of a fruitfly makes a difference in resistance to radiation.

[@micheal49]

Times flies like an arrow.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Fruit flies like a banana.

[@tinafoster8665]

@@ginnyjollykidd It undoubtedly does, radiation is like any other energy in which there's a certain magnitude that no organism could survive but, the simpler biological chemistry of the organism may be less affected because the isomers of the compounds, Amino acids, produced are obviously fewer, it's interesting because supposedly radiation along with natural selection produced intelligent creatures

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Telomeres are the ends of the condensed chromosomes, so they are made of nucleotides. The telomeres protect the rest of the chromosome, but they get eroded over time, and this protection gets worn over time, and its effectiveness deteriorates.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

@@tinafoster8665 You are right. Especially we know that infrared radiation causes proteins to denature, and enzymes become useless. But denatured proteins are the least of one's problems when they are burning to death.

[@chucktheruiner588]

Could you do a segment on cicadas ? Please

[@twocvbloke]

I'd have thought the size of the insects was more of a factor in whether they were damaged by radioactive particles, like us humans being the broad side of a barn, and they're a pea on stuck on the tip of a needle, fire a machine gun at both, and you're more likely to hit the big target than the small one, a crude analogy, but that's how my mind imagines it to be... :)

[@zogar8526]

In our refrence frame and point of thinking, that makes sense. But the issue is you have to go down to the scale of the radition. Which, to a single proton, neturon, or electron, or other subatomic particle, a crockroach is huge. The difference there is many orders of magnitude more then the difference between them and us. So doesn't really scale as our minds think it logically should.

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@@zogar8526 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿⭐️

[@WildBillCox13]

+1 Interwebs for the Kent Brockman riff. More from that episode: "Freedom! Horrible horrible freedom!"

[@HU1212ICAN3]

Duct Tape. Every bugs worst nightmare. I can tell you first hand how effective that stuff is.

[@rettznom6387]

Every guy in my family loses their hair by 20-25. Already too late for me. I'm 26 and it's gone. lol

[@aardeng]

Some with my family except I'm the odd man out being 35 with thick 5ft long dreads

[@ferminbf2224]

Not even the comet that killed dinosaurs 65millions years ago couldn´t kill the cockroaches..... LOL

[@josephhuggins5394]

dinosaurs died in the great flood that wiped all non aquatic life off the earth.

[@TrineDaely]

They can survive 20 minutes in a microwave (thankfully did not witness this firsthand). Speaking specifically of that monster of an American cockroach in Florida, the flying nightmare locally called a palmetto bug (not to be confused with other bugs that go by the same moniker).

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

@6:14 "...Conan the Bacterium" This would make a nice mascot somehow

[@kewalramanichirag]

Yes Simon, you're one of the 3 guys "keep" mentions. But you're a better man than most. This has to be enough for you and your loved ones. And your fans. Including myself.

[@ricardobimblesticks1489]

He's read the possible side effects and thought better of it :D

[@kewalramanichirag]

@@ricardobimblesticks1489 On the plus side, a man's looks don't matter as long as they can appear "clean/well maintained"

[@jonnuanez7183]

Has anybody noticed that the hamburger the cockroach is eating reanimates itself? Lol. The top right corner of the burger comes right back, and the roach eats the burger indefinitely. Perhaps a form of "No Exit" torture?

[@k-rev9366]

That last line was well worth staying til the end.

[@whaleymom76]

Cockroaches, Twinkies, and Spam sounds like Hell.

[@FC-tq1yj]

Love the Simpsons reference at the end... lol.

[@briandowers9486]

You do a great job at painting a picture at the beginning of your videos.

[@harrisonbergeron9764]

The Cockroaches in DC Will.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@bastionsea2829]

Thank you for pointing out the Mythbusters test results

[@jamesh5460]

Nuclear bombs... gamma ray bursts... the roach is like, bring it on.

[@dwashbur]

Has anybody asked if maybe the insects' exoskeleton has something in it that resists radiation?

[@livstibal3852]

That was my first thought but apon reexamination I realized it probably wouldn't offer much more protection than us walking around in thin plastic armor. If exoskeletons provided that much protection we'd probably be using something similar by now.

[@stumpytheviolator3118]

Good urban legend it has inspired some serious debates which has led to the scientific community pushing for the most advanced and challenging project humanity has undergone. Research points to the less cells the more rads something can handle, sounds simple enough, outside Earth's magnetic field it's a radioactive. The theory points to microbial life being rather common, well a project is in talks to launch a probe to one of the ice shell moons of Jupiter. The project will study deep space radiation, the water quality of the moons and various other things, but because the more we learn about radiation and life itself the odds keep increasing that life might exist in these moons. However this project is still in the discussion phase, there is a lot of red tape that prevents any major experiment from getting off the ground. It's incredible that an urban legend could inspire such a project when picked apart. Here's hoping NASA gets the funding for it, if not the European space agency picks it up, or they both save on costs and work together on it as a project of unity.

[@theashpilez]

I have seen ants move into power relays. The 80's green and brown bottom computer and fuel pump relays next to the battery . Needless to say the vehicle was inoperative and in " walk home mode"

[@prudencepineapple9448]

I have a cockroach phobia. It's the only one I have. It started as a child. One flew onto me and that was the genesis for it. Did you know they could fly as I didn't. Now when I see one I grab a can of insect killer and spray them until they are fully coated. They don't die from the spray. They die as a result of 'drowning' in it. Then I place the can over them to stop them scuttling off.

[@FerrariKing]

Will the cockroach outlast the sun going Nova in a few billion years.

[@MinMaxxx]

At minimum the roaches will have colonized our galaxy, so yes.

[@darubicon1501]

Rooting for the Roaches! Seems like the perfect irony to our destructive vanity!

[@heathersanford2538]

The band papa roach got its name inspiration from the lead singers step grandfather, whose name was William Roatch... Williams nickname was Papa Roach....

[@outlawbillionairez9780]

Cockroaches.. "We've survived rocks as big as countries hitting Earth, because we cooperate with each other. How'd you freaks last this long? 🪳

[@jayceewedmak9524]

Lol

[@lukeorlando4814]

That was a good follow up to the Twinkie show

[@Alasdair-Morrison]

10:48 Check out those cool sunnie's

[@keithhinke3277]

I saw an advertisement a few years ago that I thought was cute. They were advertising the war games, with WW1 being the Allies and the Central Powers, WW2 being the Axis and the Allies, WW3 bring the NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and WW4 being the Ant and Roach wars.

[@vonneely1977]

"1000 rads will inhibit a cockroach's fertility" ... yeah, and turn a human into a corpse.

[@Turnip_Tyme]

The myth busters done an episode on this subject

[@Jobe00]

Alright, but what about Keith Richards and Cher?

[@bellaboolos5600]

Can you please do a video on the "stoned ape theory"? I am eager to hear your view on it :)

[@thinkinyblinko6666]

Psilocybin being confirmed to activate the process of neurogenesus combined with its propensity to generate complex thought and deepen the imagination and scope of comprehension of its user essentially confirms the theory. It's a very obvious fact that psilocybin would be consumed by our ancestors and with religious behaviors being observed in other animals it isn't a leap in logic to speculate that the first mushroom trip led to a religion that spread among the primordial men until the full evolution occurred. This is the fall from eden/paradise lost in all the religions and what not. Psilocybin is a seriously powerful chemical and its effects are not well understood but what little we do know is massive and has gigantic implications regarding the human mind and the meaning of life. Just the two cents of a guy who grows his own shrooms and has met God several times.

[@outlawbillionairez9780]

Cockroaches..." 280 million years and running. Get back to us in 280 million years. We'll talk. 🪳"

[@scottbubb2946]

I always thought this myth came from some legendary test in which cockroaches were exposed to radiation for what ever reason and the irradiated roaches were then poisoned and put into hazardous waste material bags which went into a dumpster. The atomic roaches where then alleged to have made their escape and got out into the general population. 😂

[@xxopticbeefxx22]

Sounds like the opening to an insect horror film from the 70s lol

[@itssummertime6854]

That roach crawl hot me

[@lbednaz]

I wish you would include links for other videos mentioned!

[@jeanettedattilo4317]

R u on a strict timeline? I luv ur shows. Ur voice is fantastic but you run through so quickly I feel I'm in college but there I have a book to go through afterwards. Please slow down so I can relax n enjoy Ur knowledge without feeling like it's a race thanks for listening

[@LusiaEyre]

I know he meant 'rads' but I was only half listening for a moment and my brains absorbed 'rats' instead 😂 began to wonder how they worked that out - how many rats they can kill with the same amount of radiation? 😂😂

[@JMac-md3vj]

Oh, he was saying Rads. I was so confused about why Rats were being compared.

[@Art_Vark_and_Rock]

Shout out to Kent Brockman…!!!…

[@chrstfer2452]

Jurassic was not 300 mYa, according to wikipedia that was the carboniferous

[@shadowprince4482]

Tardigrade: Hold my beer!

[@dylanwickund9109]

Some types of roaches can actually survive higher doses then humans can but no they will die aswell this has been tested with abunch of types of roaches in this case with abunch in each compartment and they kept upping the dose until it got to the amount a nuke would cause

[@Cesia845]

The cockroaches in my apartment don't seem to have any trouble reproducing. :( Now matter how many times we have someone come out and spray they never go away.

[@shannononeill482]

Wait...why did I always think Papa Roach was referring to a round, cylindrical object often lit at one end...?

[@danielcurtis1434]

I hear Simon is climbing the ladder of famous (or almost famous) bald people. He should be about only 7-10 spots from Broce Willis who’s been in charge for at least 25 years.

[@StormCaller5]

Lol I can imagine how people might assume they can. Hardy insect 😕

[@dozer814]

Well if cockroaches and twinkies won't survive, that means that robin williams theory that when the world ends 3 roaches and keith richards will survive may be wrong

[@dozer814]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5Ore2OBg754paM Well i was wrong its 5 roaches

[@kenclarkii2261]

Joes apartment😂😂😂 Classic movie\,,/

[@arkain1]

Simon clearly weren't a fan of Mythbusters, he just pronounced Tory's last name as "Belatzi", hahaha.

[@turtletom8383]

I don't believe the myth comes from it's current resistance because it doesn't require it but if its environment became more radioactive the cockroach would do what it excels at wich is evolve.

[@matthewkirkey2716]

That just leaves Keith Richards as the only thing that can survive a nuclear blast. 😂

[@Pecisk]

Also nice drama introduction, but fallout would expire in few days and blast won't cover all ground. So they will survive, just not in blast zones.

[@foxknight9240]

How many channels does this guy run, or at least host? There’s atleast 4 or 5 other channels I can see under this video that have him on the thumbnail

[@toddnolastname4485]

Papa Roach is actually Pop A Roach. As in smoke pot.

[@bethanyallen3981]

Papa Roach is the name of a family member of one of the bandmates.

[@Pally604]

Ants rule the earth. Ants will rule the earth after nukes. Split the earth in two and ants will laugh as they build a land bridge. This is ant's planet.

[@Kriss_L]

Also, cockroaches are a tropical species. So a vastly reduced human infrastructure, and global cooling from the "nuclear winter", would cause the cockroaches' territory to collapse back towards the equator and warmer climates.

[@Abravado]

I've seen cockroaches in London, LA, and Lagos...

[@Kriss_L]

@@Abravado Yep, because we provide them with a warm enough habitat.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

Easy way to get rid of roaches = simply wait for winter and shut off the heat for a week. They evolved in the tropics so can't handle subfreezing temps for shit.

[@shaggycan]

Did they test the eggs for radiation? They might be much more resilient.

[@midnightrambler8866]

Looking for the inevitable comment about how cockroaches won't actually survive nuclear war but Keith Richards will.

[@shark50401]

Anyone else that pictured Putin scurrying around with spider legs like that character from Toy Story?

[@shark50401]

@@GAMakin 🤣. I have to think at least part of it is red.

[@greendorkfish]

After the apocalypse roaches inherit the earth ruled by queen Lizzy living off Twinkies

[@nugboy420]

7:06. Cocrin (sp?) the cockroach expert.

[@DrDipsh1t]

It's my favorite bacterium!

[@borisjohnsonslostcomb7457]

These videos have the best comment section on KZbin

[@ericbuzzard2041]

I kept asking how the hell it could take 100 rats to kill a cockroach, then I realized that I'm an idiot.

[@ThisHandleThingIsStupid]

I think it’s fair to say most bugs will outlive humans.

[@mrvn000]

They have been here millones of years before us. Probably they Will outlive US.

[@joshuadoyle2319]

How do scientists measure bite force for wild animals? That is, what are the logistics of putting a device in a dangerous animals mouth and making sure it is biting down with full force? Do they just measure jaw and muscle mass? Please help

[@patrickscalia5088]

There are devices that can directly measure the bite pressure of most animals. Yes, it's a device they stick in the animal's mouth and then induce to bite it. Can't immediately remember what they call it but there is plenty of research supporting it. Surprising results: cats by weight have a more powerful bite than any dog or canid species, due to the relatively short jaws of a cat compared to canids (like wolves). It's the same reason a bulldog has a more powerful bite than a German shepherd. It makes sense that a cat would have evolved a stronger bite, as they generally kill with a single powerful bite to the spine/skull or to the throat, rather than mauling an animal to death with repeated bites the way canids bring down large prey. The strongest cat bite is the jaguar. Hyenas generally bite harder than either cats or canids. But sharks and crocodilians have bite strength vastly more powerful than any mammal. As far as the logistics (actually 'mechanics' is a better word here) of measuring bite strength, for the smarter animals like dogs and cats if they're pissed off enough and you give them something to bite they're going to bite the hell out of it. Probably easier with alligators/crocodiles as they tend to pre-stage a bite by opening their mouths, and from that point anything touching their tongue or the inside of the mouth reflexively produces an immediate, crushing bite. As far as sharks? They chum them in (lure them and drive them into a frenzy by dumping fish guts and blood in the water) and from that point they're going to bite anything that catches their eye. Sharks tend to bite first then spit the object back out if it tastes wrong. Having said all that, I can tell you from experience that a German shepherd can bite hard enough to make you scream. As I discovered while doing police work and got bitten by a police dog that was, shall we say, a bit confused.

[@keixsy]

I thought you uploaded this video already, or had at least talked about cockroaches living through fallouts

[@Fitten06]

Was just mentioned in the Twinkie video; they probably posted in a different order than he originally thought they would be.

[@auro1986]

your next question would be will it take a nuclear apocalypse to find out if cockroaches live on that

[@videogamevalley7523]

anything with 1 million degrees (Celsius or Fahrenheit) says death

[@Pecisk]

Sorry, but I had to point out some things: actual full nuclear war won't kill even majority of humans, current amount of nukes and capacities are way smaller, biggest issues will be disorder, food supply and nuclear winter. So proper title would be "Would cockroaches survive nuclear winter", because war itself will be survived by many things first.

[@ScottJPowers]

Indestructible? A cockroach won't survive my foot. Why would anyone believe cockroaches are so durable?

[@knewledge8626]

Cockroaches are tropical. They won't survive. Giant radioactive mutant Cockroaches on the other hand...