Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: BenLurkin
Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are said to be:

THE MOST INDUSTRUCTABLE ANIMALS IN THE WORLD

They have eight legs (four pairs) and each leg has four to eight claws that resemble the claws of a bear.

Boil the 1mm creatures, freeze them, dry them, expose them to radiation and they're so resilient they'll still be alive 200 years later.

Water bears can live through temperatures as low as -457 degrees, heat as high as 357 degrees, and 5,700 grays of radiation, when 10-20 grays would kill humans and most other animals.

Tardigrades have been around for 530 million years and outlived the dinosaurs.

The animals can also live for a decade without water and even survive in space.


16 posted on 01/18/2019 10:07:28 PM PST by caww
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: caww

From the sounds of their description, it would surprise me if their are live ones still swimming around down there. (Hmm - 4,000 years, no predators or competition. Hopefully they aren’t 100-feet tall and pissed that we disturbed them!


19 posted on 01/18/2019 10:13:46 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

To: caww

I feed mine kibble...


21 posted on 01/18/2019 10:23:28 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

To: caww

Wow. My next Halloween costume.
Or is it Whoopi Goldberg before she hits the makeup room?


24 posted on 01/18/2019 10:44:52 PM PST by GnuThere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

To: caww

Now we know the ancestry of Ruth Bader (Waterbaderbear) Ginsburg, Rosie O’Donnell, Joyce Behar (the Hebrew version of Waterbear), Maxine “Antarctic” Waters (bears - she changed her name), and Nancy Pelosi (Pelosi is old Italian for Waterbear).

Looks just like them, the spawn of the Ice Devil.


37 posted on 01/19/2019 1:07:18 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

To: caww

45 posted on 01/19/2019 3:58:53 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

To: caww

Interesting.


50 posted on 01/19/2019 6:22:28 AM PST by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson