Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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  • Mood: excited

Tardigrades in Spaaaaaace!

So I just found out that my favorite little mossbears are vacuum-proof.  Since we also have algae in space, that's looking real good for the panspermia theory, or even just polyspermia that travels from a handful of sources to nearby locations.
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Tardigrades

the_onion_girl

April 6 2015, 16:09:45 UTC 6 years ago

Neil DeGrasse-Tyson hosted a reboot of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. I found the series on NetFlix. The series is titled: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. In one of the episodes he discusses Tardigrades, they are cool.