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littlemissmartypants

(22,737 posts) Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:02 AM Sep 2012

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Meet the superbugs...

There is only one creature known to man which can survive the ravages of deep space.
It is the water bear - officially known as the tardigrade - and despite being a fraction of a millimetre in length and mostly consigned to a lazy life exploring pond moss, it is almost indestructible.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2207828/This-bug--The-indestructible-micro-animals-survive-vacuum-space--blood.html#ixzz27UC5ckxZ

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Meet the superbugs... (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Sep 2012 OP

lol.. It looks like it's made of canvas! I bow to our eventual overlords. . . n/t annabanana Sep 2012 #1

These would make a great science fiction movie creature newfie11 Sep 2012 #2

I take it you never played Half-Life 2 Bosonic Sep 2012 #3

Lol no this is new to me nt newfie11 Sep 2012 #4

You can almost read personality in its face:... this is the head of a maggot littlemissmartypants Sep 2012 #5

Kind of reminds me of a Vogon. progressoid Sep 2012 #11

Fascinating, but...part of me wishes I hadn't seen these... FailureToCommunicate Sep 2012 #6

That water bear just does not look real. Curmudgeoness Sep 2012 #7

I love those that love magnification littlemissmartypants Sep 2012 #8

Well, it's time for me to break out defacto7 Sep 2012 #9

So ugly they're cute! Solly Mack Sep 2012 #10

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

1. lol.. It looks like it's made of canvas! I bow to our eventual overlords. . . n/t

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:11 AM

Sep 2012

newfie11

(8,159 posts)

2. These would make a great science fiction movie creature

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:12 AM

Sep 2012

If anyone of them grew mega size in another planet I hope we don't find it.

Bosonic

(3,746 posts)

3. I take it you never played Half-Life 2

Reply to newfie11 (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:40 AM

Sep 2012

It's an Advisor, Gordon...

newfie11

(8,159 posts)

4. Lol no this is new to me nt

Reply to Bosonic (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:49 AM

Sep 2012

littlemissmartypants

(22,737 posts)

5. You can almost read personality in its face:... this is the head of a maggot

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2012, 01:01 PM

Sep 2012

- the offspring of a bluebottle fly

progressoid

(49,996 posts)

11. Kind of reminds me of a Vogon.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 27, 2012, 09:23 AM

Sep 2012

FailureToCommunicate

(14,020 posts)

6. Fascinating, but...part of me wishes I hadn't seen these...

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2012, 05:50 PM

Sep 2012

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

7. That water bear just does not look real.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 07:49 PM

Sep 2012

That mouth looks like it is a plastic sprocket.

I just love magnification!

littlemissmartypants

(22,737 posts)

8. I love those that love magnification

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 07:53 PM

Sep 2012

thanks for stopping by!

defacto7

(13,485 posts)

9. Well, it's time for me to break out

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Thu Sep 27, 2012, 01:35 AM

Sep 2012

my old spray can of DDT. Then mix some Malathion and Isotox. That should do it.

No, we need the bugs. Bugs are good.

Solly Mack

(90,779 posts)

10. So ugly they're cute!

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Thu Sep 27, 2012, 03:25 AM

Sep 2012

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