RetroGunslinger

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you....

THE TARDIGRADE!!

It is the greatest thing, living or not, ever!

But wait, there's more! It's not just the cutest, cuddliest microorganism on the planet...

From Wikipedia: "Water bears are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal. They can survive temperatures close to absolute zero, temperatures as high as 151°C (303°F), 1,000 times more radiation than any other animal, nearly a decade without water, and can also survive in a vacuum like that found in space." All of which I double checked myself.

'Tis greatness!



WATER BEAR FOREVER!!

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Shauk

THIS IS MADNESS!

Crack

Lets move a few to Mars and wait a few years... just to see what happens..

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Baraka_Guru

My vote for greatest animal ever is still on humans.

Can tardigrade play a guitar? Paint a self-portrait? Build a house? Design a car?

Can a tardigrade love?


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But seriously, these things are truly awesome. I've never heard of them, and they look really cool!

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Tophat665

Possibly the greatest, but the honey badger still has it beat tough wise. Sure, the waterbear will survive a nuclear war, but can it rip your scrotum off or take food from lions?
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=67649

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Jetée

How do you go about checking the survivability of cosmic vacuums?

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Tophat665

Incidentally, 'tardigrade' sounds vaguely odd right there. It souds like a word for measuring temperature in units of mentally challeneged individuals?

"What's the temp in here?"
"72 Fahrenheit, 22 centigrade"
"And in tardigrade?"
"Pudding night."

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SSJTWIZTA

umm, put them in one.

i seen this "thing" on animal planet once.

magnificent creature, it is.

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lotsofmagnets

i´m hanging out for this guy to release his album

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