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Tardigrades can survive some intensely high impacts

“They enter a tun state,” astrophysicist Mark Burchell, who co-led a study recently published in Astrobiology, told SYFY WIRE. “This means they eject most of their water content and greatly reduce metabolic activity, so they simplify themselves and reduce their internal processes. Being inert seems to help them survive.” The Beresheet crash opens up the question of whether it is possible that other life like tardigrades may be able to travel through space on pieces of debris or shoot from one planet or moon to another via jets of liquid. That would depend on whether this hypothetical life could crawl out of the impact that brings it somewhere else in the first place. Panspermia, the idea that objects or phenomena spread life through the universe, was what made Burchell want to see exactly what a thing that can freeze or dehydrate itself for tens of years is capable of withstanding.

Indestructible Tardigrades Survive Getting Shot from Guns

It’s a good thing tardigrades aren’t human-sized (or bigger) because there doesn’t seem to be anything that can stop them. Volcanoes? Nope. Toxic chemical vents on the bottom of the ocean? They love it. Outside of the International Space Station? They can’t wait to go back. Now comes word of new tests which found that. Read more »

Científicos disparan tardígrados para comprobar si sobrevivirían a un meteorito

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