A new use for a gun, or "Shooting Tardigrades."

[Maggot]

Tough little bastards.

Tardigrades Survive Being Shot Out of a Gun at Speeds up to ...​

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7 hours ago — A spacecraft carrying tardigrades crash landed on the moon in 2019. In a new study, scientists set out to test whether the creatures survived.

 

[rhsc]

I always think of Dr. Who (the Tardis) when I hear mention of tardigrades. Considering what the little buggers can endure, they rate being somehow written into an episode or two.

 

[kl3309]

 

[Aftermath]

What BC would these projectiles have?
Do they prefer to fly in MILS as I would assume or are they better suited to be aimed using MOA or the new MILOA?

 

[TACC]

I never even heard if these things until this news story came up.

 

[Jumper]

If they interbred and replicated themselves and thereby reduced their mental capacity, would they then be known as Retardigrades? Just curious.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I would not bet on their having been all killed... in the Israeli moon crash.

Life has a habit of surprising people. 310 mph? But the impact got them?

Hummmmmmm....

Anyone else want to bet that one of the Mars rovers (especially China’s pos) has already colonized Mars with life? Might be bacteria or viral. Or fungal. But something survived on all those rovers. I’d bet on it.

Sirhr

 

[Maggot]

If they interbred and replicated themselves and thereby reduced their mental capacity, would they then be known as Retardigrades? Just curious.

They'd be called 'liberal democrats'.

 

[Maggot]

I would not bet on their having been all killed... in the Israeli moon crash.

Life has a habit of surprising people. 310 mph? But the impact got them?

Hummmmmmm....

Anyone else want to bet that one of the Mars rovers (especially China’s pos) has already colonized Mars with life? Might be bacteria or viral. Or fungal. But something survived on all those rovers. I’d bet on it.

Sirhr

Mars grade Chinee Covid 20

 

[Baron23]

Little fuckers are near indestructible. Very cool tiny creatures, IMO.