Do you remember as a child being told that cockroaches would be the only thing to survive a full-scale nuclear war? In the latest showdown between man's military might and bugs' uncanny ability to survive just about anything we do to try to kill them, the bugs have won again....

A teacher who kept a 40 mm shell on his desk as a paperweight blew off part of his hand when he apparently used the object to try to squash a bug, authorities say. The 5-inch-long shell exploded Monday while Robert Colla was teaching 20 to 25 students at an adult education class.

The bug survived...

and then kicked Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith's asses before taking off in a space shuttle.