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RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology micro-summaries for August 9, 2019
Tardigrades are amazing. They're almost impossible to kill and probably have contaminated every vehicle we've sent into space. This means that the Voyager probes carry the first terrestrial life into interstellar space, where their eventual disposition is unknown and uncontrollable.
Interesting to consider what could happen in the event Tardigrades end up in some habitat they are able to live in.
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They are hardy creatures without a doubt but they need water and food to be able to survive just like any other living organism on earth.
Thanks for the video! I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I'll try to make time later. I added it to my youtube "watch later" list.
Thanks for the feedback. I hadn't heard of tardigrades before that article, but they do seem pretty amazing. I guess the most likely thing is that they just lie dormant, and maybe eventually die on both the moon and Voyager, but the possibilities are limitless, and "forever" is a really really long time. You're right that it's interesting to think about.