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Tardigrades
Tardigrades
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Tardigrades
Tardigrades
Earth’s most tenacious creature can live in boiling water, solid ice, and the intense radiation of space. It can survive a decade in a desert, without a drop of water to drink, or in the deepest trenches of the sea.
Sources, because I'm not a shithead:
http://tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/19/5-reasons-why-the-tardigrade-is-natures-toughest-animal/
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130306.html
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/
ATaleOfTwoTitties
Ughh another pokemon post
tentaclefriendly
At my last job, we used the same sugars this guy uses to protect his cells to help preserve and freeze-dry platelets for long term storage.
CosmicTeapot
Water bear!!
brisvatne
ah I suspect interstellar life would intro itself with room to retroevolve, n fill n gaps from such a robust start.
smallsabba
thats a lie since the earth is only 2016 years old. do you guys never pay attention when listening to americans?
TheZabadabadoo
They can live 10 minutes within a vacuum. I know this because I'm on the interwebs.
DefenestrationAssistant
jeromygride
MrSandman815
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
Upvoted for not being a shithead.
AdamantlyDislikingAllDogs
https://youtu.be/RALtqFPyvQk
thecomputerrepairguy
Can i buy this little guy on amazon? How much? I will dress him in a leather jacket.
ashmenon
The little feetsies!
InquisitorGoldeneye
https://youtu.be/OUrz4CtGuOM
TheShiniestOfMen
I have seen tardigrades under a microscope. Can confirm they are as awesome as you think, but! they are in fact pretty see through.
suckitupbuttercupp
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/218492-tardigrades-already-impossible-to-kill-also-have-foreign-dna
ProfessorBrosby
@clyon89
Nikolaj
Whoa.. It's almost as if evolution is a thing, and that the less complex an organism is, the less fragile it is!
sarukane
I just had creative imaginings of what evolved tardigrades would be like. "Can you imagine humans couldn't go in lava?"
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
I just realized these look sorta like the weird lava creatures from the atlantis movies.
ThisisntJessitsJess
Noot. Noot noot.
jrhawk42
I dunno why we aren't shooting these things into space.
KirwinWebb
What the actual duck...
pooge77
What a dick face!
BarbaraEGordon
What if it's just tiny ass people in small suits trying to observe our planet and just "get by" undetected. I'm high.
Xanadeas
Waaaater beeaaaar
RuinRising
Aren't these also known as waterbears?
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
Yea
ninmonkey
Yes, but since then they have gone through a lot of emotional growth, so they don't like to use that term anymore.
TheNorwegiansAreLeaving
Indeed.
fistermatic5000
I feel like if there's only one line of text, it doesn't need to be a gif.
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
But how else would you see his douchey facial expressions?
RevolutionOnHerLips
http://i.giphy.com/3o85xBXz9cOahLB6w0.gif
fistermatic5000
I guess!
Neuroactive
*tiny dicks
W1ndBear
*water bear
ninmonkey
It's not tiny, he was in the water!
CadetKern
No tiny dick
3bdallah
Tiny water bear dick!
sayplease60
I wonder what would happen if we send a bunch to Mars?
TheBlargshaggen
It would be like the manga 'Terraformers'
LordSupergreat
They might need food or something, I don't know.
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
Yeah we'd have to seed habitable areas with various bacteria and archaea before we put these guys in.
BritishBatman
no, they can survive in space just fine, which poses the question of why they would have evolved that ability?
Fleaturtle
Could just be a byproduct of some other adaptation?
DinosaurInaFez
*cue X-Files theme music*
BritishBatman
especially because they survive in space and water in completely different ways.