NASA is sending what?

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

The Muppets bought you 'Pigs In Space' now NASA, with the assistance of SpaceX bring you 'Squids In Space' ... and Water Bears (Tardigrades). This could be a new chapter in the Alien franchise.

https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-...id-tardigrades

Also heard somewhere they are sending a Pizza.

[glend (Glen)]

Tardigrades! Activate the Spore Drive. Been there, done that, on Star Trek Discovery.

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Originally Posted by glend

Tardigrades! Activate the Spore Drive. Been there, done that, on Star Trek Discovery.

Micro Hamster Wheel?

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Baby squid look so cute

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Baby squid look so cute

That's how Calvin started.

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[glend (Glen)]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

Micro Hamster Wheel?

The Discovery Tardigrades were as big as very large pigs, not micro hamsters.

[Astronovice (Calvin)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

That's how Calvin started.

Hey leave me out of this please Marc

[mura_gadi (Steve)]

The things they do to water bears... these little critters need a #tag support group... A group recently tested to see if they might have survived the moon impact experiment.


Impact speeds:
Researchers found the bears could withstand an impact of up to 900 meters per second and shock pressures of up to 1.14 gigapascals. At higher speeds, the seemingly invincible water bears turned to mush.

The study results show that tardigrades can survive impact speeds of around 2970kph, no airbags required... (They were frozen and fired at a sandbag for testing, then returned to water to check survival rates).



Steve

[xelasnave]

Here is one I spent hours cleaning up for a photo. Actually they are not so tuff if in the form you see here ....it is when they go into their "suspended animation" state that they become super tuff... unfortunately the little guy in the photo I crushed when trying to remove an air bubble that was attached to his head...the stuff at his rear is either stomach contents or some of his internals...He died.
Alex

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

Calamari!

[mura_gadi (Steve)]

Maybe that's why they say "freeze" in photography...

Nice shot at that scale though.

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by mura_gadi

Maybe that's why they say "freeze" in photography...

Nice shot at that scale though.

Thanks but that was just holding the phone to the EP... I have not got the microscope cameras software working so I have been using Sharpcap but I have no video playing software...dont feel like buying the photoshop stuff after my free trial.

Alex