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Video Clip SS218421 (Tardigrade Walking Through Algae)

Tardigrade (Hypsibius dujardini) walking through algae, microscope view.

Tardigrades are commonly known as water bears or moss piglets. They are found in practically every habitat on Earth, from hot springs to beneath ice sheets, and are renowned for their toughness. 

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Experiments have shown they can survive being frozen to nearly absolute zero and heated to 150 degrees Celsius. They have survived pressures of more than 6000 atmospheres, and have survived after prolonged exposure to the vacuum and radiation found in space. 

In unfavorable conditions they can dehydrate to 1% of their normal water content and remain alive in stasis for over a decade. In more normal conditions, they prefer moist environments where they feed on algae and bacteria. 

This tardigrade is often used as a model organism in biological research, and its genome is being sequenced.

© Sinclair Stammers / Science Source

@thesleepiestpsleepscientist

BABYBOY

he is SO fucking valid

Tardigrades could possibly make embryo colonization a possibility.

I love the science, but when I saw the video, all I could think was:

mysharona1987:

The thing with Denzel is utterly fucked up, isn’t it?

I believe he later turned down a role in Amistad. It creeped him out too much.

‘Suffering for art’ shouldn’t look anything like this. 

Directors have been, essentially, dictators.   

Watch Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse for a good idea of the extremes some of these men go to and the stresses they put on others (and why they probably shouldn’t be allowed to).  Watch Coppola express frustration that a local dictator won’t cooperate with his need for helicopters for a scene.  He would later say of the production, at Cannes, that they were like the Americans in Vietnam: they had access to too much money [materials, etc] and ‘little by little we went insane.’ 

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thedoctor-smith:

Re: Clexacon, @weasal @gramjams @femininenachos  – will you be doing a Hunner podcast in Vegas? Can only imagine Hunner Clexa running amuck in sin city – narrowly escaping arrest for indecent behaviour, winning a mint and spending it all on something insane like a diamond-covered limo and getting married by Elvis in the 24-Hour Chapel of Love du Jour.  We do hope to hear of their adventures. Please keep us apprised.  X

Well @thedoctor-smith, in the famous words of 90’s pop songstress and fashion eye patch wearer, Gabrielle – ‘dreams can come true’….

Re: Clexacon, @weasal @gramjams @femininenachos  – will you be doing a Hunner podcast in Vegas? Can only imagine Hunner Clexa running amuck in sin city – narrowly escaping arrest for indecent behaviour, winning a mint and spending it all on something insane like a diamond-covered limo and getting married by Elvis in the 24-Hour Chapel of Love du Jour.  We do hope to hear of their adventures. Please keep us apprised.  X