Posted on 08/06/2019 4:35:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Beresheet was a robotic lander. Though it didn't transport astronauts, it carried human DNA samples, along with the aforementioned tardigrades and 30 million very small digitized pages of information about human society and culture. However, it's unknown if the archive — and the water bears — survived the explosive impact when Beresheet crashed
The tardigrades and the human DNA were late additions to the mission, added just a few weeks before Beresheet launched on Feb. 21. Much like Cretaceous fossils locked in amber, the DNA samples and tardigrades were sealed in a resin layer protecting the DVD-size lunar library, while thousands more tardigrades were poured onto the sticky tape that held the archive in place
Tardigrades can survive conditions that would be deadly to any other form of life, weathering temperature extremes of minus 328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius) to more than 300 F (149 C). They also handily survive exposure to the radiation and vacuum of space.
Another tardigrade superpower is their ability to dehydrate their bodies into a state known as a "tun." They retract their heads and legs, expel the water from their bodies and shrivel up into a tiny ball — and scientists have found that tardigrades can revive from this dehydrated state after 10 years or more.
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What in the world? After all the extreme caution that the U.S. went through to avoid any biological pollution of other worlds, Israel INTENTIONALLY sent these organisms to the moon? This seems just nuts.
Invasion of the Water Bears
Sounds like a good plot for a sci fi horror flick!........
I’m very much in favor of biological pollution of other worlds. No sense going there if we’re not going to make ourselves right at home.
I thought this might have been the Indian rocket that launched June 15th I believe.
But I guess it was Israeli.
Bits of Alice?
Terraformimg gone amok?
Panspermia is now a valid theory.
If the tardigrades can (were able after the crash) to get below the surface, their ability to survive may be even longer than most scientists think possible (more than ten years in a dehydrated suspended life state).
Given that this happened, there is legitimate reason to believe even snaller single-celled forms, like some bacteria, could survive not only extreme temperatures but radiation in the near vacuum of space, like on the moon’s surface. And were there any such life forms on the crashed moon lander?
However all life forms need some source of “food”, usually something else that is biologic, in order to LIVE. What that can be on the moon is unknown I think, if anything.
here is maybe an answer to the bacteria question.
https://www.ck12.org/biology/bacteria-nutrition/lesson/Bacteria-Nutrition-MS-LS/
Yeah.
I was going to say it could seem to ET we’re sending out bio weapons.
Leave Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein out of this...!
“can revive from this dehydrated state after 10 years or more”
Handy.
Spores from Space!
Yep, saw a movie about that about a zillion times.
Time for a Hollywierd remake...The Andromeda Moon.
Of course with all transexual lesbian moon maids.
The crew from Apollo 12 brought back some components of the nearby Surveyor 3 lander. The camera has some bacteria spores that survived.
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