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The Water Bear can survive almost anything. A Water Bear that was dried out in a fossil was brought back to life after 120 years just by adding water to it!

So why don't we put them into capsules that would shatter on impact on a planet and shoot them out into space?

We could bring life to other planets!

>> No.1419489

he needs oxigen

>> No.1419487

looks gross

>> No.1419490

>implying a water bear would eventually evolve into anything other than another type of water bear

>> No.1419493

Think about all the poor water bears that would end up in suns and black holes!!!

>> No.1419496

>>1419490
>Implying you know anything about evolution.

>> No.1419500

>>1419489

nope. he can even survive in a vacuum.

>> No.1419506

looks like a bunch of fat guys crushed together

>> No.1419513

>>1419489

I looked at "oxigen" for about two minutes because I knew it was spelled wrong, but I didn't know why. Derp.

>> No.1419518

Theres no profit to be made from bringing life to other planets

>> No.1419520
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1419520

Water bears are the cutest damned things.

>> No.1419529
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1419529

Water Bears are cool but I prefer Nematodes. These worms are everywhere. They literally rule the planet.

>> No.1419530

>So why don't we put them into capsules that would shatter on impact on a planet and shoot them out into space?

because that is incredibly irresponsible and all space missions have focused on sterilizing all material brought into space.

mars might have signs of life on it already, if we start shooting tardigrade pellets we will dick up all the evidence etc.

also they survive in space by forming cysts or hibernating or whatever, water bears can't just live normally and reproduce in space.

>> No.1419539

>>1419529

Weren't nematodes characters on Spongebob Squarepants?

>> No.1419549

>>1419529

Also: If there is life on other planets we can be pretty sure that it will be like Nematodes. In all the endless forms evolution can produce this simple tube seems to be the most successful by far.

>> No.1419542

>>1419530
Yes, but I think you severely underestimate just how much I want to see a Water Bear fight whatever's living on Europa.

>> No.1419570

>>1419549
Can weed get a nematode high?

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>>1419530

I don't want them to be shot on planets we can actually explore. So don't shoot them on planets in our solar system. Just shoot them away into space we will never be able to enter.

This way we can have this nice feeling by knowing that even when all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are extinguished in the vast death of the solar system, and when the whole temple of man's achievement is inevitably buried beneath the debris of a destroyed planet...

...life will go on.

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>>1419581

Dude

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>>1419581

>> No.1419634

>>1419530

that brings up another question: who is to say any life we find on mars isnt based on microbes weve sent over along with our probes??

>> No.1419639

>>1419581
I don't think the universe needs our help m8. THe Kepler mission returned it's first findings in like, may, and it reported over 720 earth-sized planets orbiting neighboring stars. NASA is reviewing the data as we speak, and will release their results on February 11th, 2011. Chances are at least some of those will exist in the habitable zone and have atmospheres conducive to life as we know it.

Hold on to your butts.

>> No.1419646

>>1419634
NASA puts a lot of effort into sterilizing their probes.

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>>1419581

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>>1419581

>> No.1419673

>>1419581
Sounds legit. Let's launch some fuckin' water bears to the martian polar caps, let 'em get all nice and comfy.

>> No.1419686

>>1419581
Dude, what if that's how life on earth started. Whoa.

>> No.1419684

Can water bears be genetically modified to grow to larger sizes, like, say, that of a dog? Because I want a pet water bear. I want one now.

>> No.1419678

We should shoot out probes with these out to all possible planets into universe. If our species gets extinct then atleast some other planet may evolve into a new species.

>> No.1419689

WATER BEARS.....IN....SPAAAAAAACCEEE

>> No.1419691

>>1419686

we waterbear now

>> No.1419694

>>1419539
I never really watched Spongebob, but I know for sure they were in Doug

>CA LOO CA COO
>CA LOO CA COO

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>>1419686

>> No.1419698

>>1419639

haha 8i

>> No.1419702

We're already fucking up our own ecosystem by putting species where they're not supposed to be, so why not fuck up another planet?

>> No.1419710

>>1419702

Bullshit. This also happens naturally. So we won't fuck up the ecosystem of any planet out there beyond itself balancing itself out again.

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>>1419639

>> No.1419716

>>1419702
The fact that other planets most probably DON'T HAVE ECOSYSTEMS

>> No.1419725

GUYS ITS SO EASY TO KILL A WATER BEAR! A SPY SAPPER!

ANON DELIVERS WHY WATER BEARS ARE SO WEAK

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/09/08/tardigrades-become-first-animals-to-su
rvive-vacuum-of-space/

SCIENCE PWNS , PROVED YOU ALL WRONG GG NOOBS

>> No.1419750

>>1419581
>implying that with what we have accomplished over the last 50 years, we will still be stuck in our solar system billions of years from now

>> No.1419774

>>1419750
>implying we don't die b4 the sun explodes

>> No.1419805

>>1419750
Seriously, just look at the progress we've made since 1990. The rate of scientific progress is only going to increase, so there's really no reason not to be excited about the future.

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>>1419805
>MFW the only progress we've made is faster internet and the iPhone.

>> No.1419880

>>1419837

dont you see? Once we get the intenet moving REALY fast, scintists will just take everything they no about making data go realy fast and apply it to spaceships...and theeeeeeeeeeen....FTL.

>> No.1419902

>>1419774
>Implying the Sun explodes

>> No.1419935

>>1419902

>implying it isnt continuously exploding

>> No.1420119

>>1419490

according to evolution, he may evolve into a giant water bear a million times its current size.

>> No.1420133

>>1420119

yes. just like all of the other 3 foot wide single celled organisms that you see cruising around all the time, there will be massive water bears too. just give them time.

>> No.1420143

>water bears
>WATER

HOW MANY PLANETS DO WE KNOW WITH LIQUID WATER ON THIS?

DERPDERHERP

STFU

>> No.1420150

>>1420133
>Implying water bears are single cellular.

>> No.1420197

>>1420143

alot hurr

>> No.1421251

durrmp

>> No.1423911

si nogye thaadnuau

>> No.1423915

os erhtst iiyec nghe