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BEARS...IN...SPACE!

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Skittleguy

Ring a Bell for me
Water Bears that is!
Nature News said:
For ten days, the tardigrades were exposed to the radiation, vacuum and low temperature of space. R. coronifer did not fare terribly well — none survived when exposed to the full spectrum of ultraviolet radiation, which can be extremely damaging to DNA. But three specimens of M. tardigradum did.
And when some wavelengths of ultraviolet light were filtered out (those shorter than 280 nanometres or longer than 400 nanometres), eggs laid by space-faring Milnesium tardigradum hatched just as well as controls that had not been exposed to space vacuum or ultraviolet radiation. The results are published this week by Current Biology.
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http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080908/full/news.2008.1087.html
These things are awesome. They can survive any conditions scientists have exposed them to so far. We have much to learn from these like poohs.
 
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whytemyke

Honorary Canadian.
there's a good reason that it lives well in space.


It's because it's a fucking alien and not of this world. GET IT OUT! thing looks like a translucent Stitch.
 
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