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Jesse Patoka asked this question about Project Hail Mary:
When the Taumoeba are discovered to be able to travel through xenonite towards the end, did anyone else worry that the Nitrogen resiliency was inaccurate? And that the Taumoeba were just hiding in the xenonite to avoid the nitrogen? The book states that this evolution happened in parallel to the Nitrogen resilience, but I think a good scientist would have retested with a plastic/metal environment.
Shaana Niessen Actually, the author states explictly that the Taumoeba in the glass storage tubes were not able to hide from the nitrogen and the nitrogen-resistant …moreActually, the author states explictly that the Taumoeba in the glass storage tubes were not able to hide from the nitrogen and the nitrogen-resistant bred Taumoeba survived.

"The Taumoeba can permeate xenonite. No problem. I'll store it in something else. It's still nitrogen-resistant. It doesn't NEED xenonite to survive. I tested it thoroughly in my glass lab equipment back when we first isolated the strain. It'll still do its thing on Venus and Threeworld. Everything's fine." (pg. 451).(less)
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