And I walk away from this article having learned about one other extremophile I don't think I'd ever have heard of otherwise...

The only creature I knew of to survive nuclear radiation was the cockroach. The common little pest in such vast numbers of households, so easily ground to death under the 'mighty' heel of a human being, might also survive with such ease an event and force of nature that can lay to waste everything man-made it touches, and make those very same 'mighty' humans collapse out of sheer sickness...it's impressive really.

Such lifeforms just go to show how vast and incomprehensible nature's way of doing things is, and how little we know by contrast. No matter who's bigger and who's smaller, we're all subject to the way of Nature's will.

Good post, m8. Informative in just the right amounts. Syntax could use some mild improvement, but otherwise, an enlightening post.

Good job :)