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posted 06 August 2019 11:04 AM
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posted 06 August 2019 11:27 AMHide Post
Weird. How will they rehydrate?
 
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posted 06 August 2019 02:15 PMHide Post
Humans. Why the solar system can’t have nice things.


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posted 06 August 2019 04:12 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by Nina:
Weird. How will they rehydrate?


Well, who knows, maybe the lander crashed in an area rich in buried water ice and the crash released some of it ...
 
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posted 07 August 2019 02:37 AMHide Post
I read a slightly different story here.
First difference: Tardigrades need time to enter their suspended state. A sudden crash on the moon with instantanteous exposition to the (non-) athmosphere while being in their "live"-state might kill them.
Second difference: Nobody expects them to rehydrate on the moon. To my knowledge scientists said, that, if the tardigrades were to be recovered after several months on the moon surface, they could rehydrate an go on living happily ever after.
So, sadly no tardigrade welcoming committee for the next astronauts on the moon....
 
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posted 07 August 2019 11:07 AMHide Post
You guys have not seen enough space movies.
The lower gravity of the moon will cause them to become as huge as the largest dinosaurs.
They will then eat any astronauts that land there.


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posted 08 August 2019 12:14 PMHide Post
Good point.

BTW, this is the first I've ever heard of tardigrades. What are they supposed to do? Why did this dude want to put them on the moon? It strikes me as the ultimate lunar pollution.
 
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posted 08 August 2019 03:16 PMHide Post
“Why did this dude want to put them on the moon?”

It’s part of his evil plan to amass wealth by first letting these tardigrades mutate on the Moon into fluffy poodle sized creatures then sell them off as cuddly purse pets with obscene profit margins.


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posted 08 August 2019 03:18 PMHide Post
"The Trouble with Tribbles Tardigrades"


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posted 08 August 2019 03:56 PMHide Post
Ever seen a tardigrade? Tribbles they are not.


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posted 08 August 2019 03:59 PMHide Post
To be honest before this thread I had never heard of them, much less seen one. I was just riffing off of Ax's post.... WhoMe


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posted 08 August 2019 04:15 PMHide Post
Don't you need a pretty good magnifier to get a reasonable view of one?
 
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posted 08 August 2019 06:20 PMHide Post
According to some article I read my vast research, they can be seen with minimal magnification--the sort you might have with a K-12 microscope. Apparently they're popular in school demostrations/labs because they are so visible.
 
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posted 08 August 2019 07:42 PMHide Post
And I thought that only professors gave out ... tardigrades.
 
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posted 08 August 2019 10:12 PMHide Post
*Groan*


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