Science
Could Tardigrades Travel Space Thanks To Meteorite Impacts? – Forbes
Scientists fired tardigrades out of a special gun to test the idea that they can survive an impact event and travel on a meteorite to other planets.
Tardigrades can survive tremendous heat and cold, radiation and vacuum.
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Tardigrades, microscopic invertebrates also known as water bears and moss piglets, are found virtually everywhere where liquid water exists, from droplets on leaves to ponds.
If necessary, they can drain their cells of any liquid and enter suspended animation with no measurable metabolism, a condition called cryptobiosis (“hidden life”). They can survive subzero temperatures, boiling water, zero oxygen, radioactive and…
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