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Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts – ScienceAlert
We can now add “being fired out of a gun at high speeds” to the growing list of weird things tardigrades can survive.
We can now add “being fired out of a gun at high speeds” to the growing list of weird things tardigrades can survive.
How do we know? Scientists actually did it – and, believe it or not, it’s for a good cause. They wanted to know if tardigrade-like organisms could survive certain conditions in space, in order to place constraints on where and how we might be able to find extraterrestrial life in the Solar System – and how we might avoid contaminating it.
Tardigrades, microscopic invertebrates also…
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