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Coventina

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14. This is cruelty to animals. I don't care how tiny or "insignificant".

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Mon Jan 10, 2022, 02:57 PM

Jan 2022

Once you excuse cruelty to one species, it becomes negotiable for others.

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Scientists Want to Send Tardigrades to Distant Stars With Massive Lasers [View all] Nevilledog Jan 2022 OP

Expect a sternly worded letter from the SPCTT* Achilleaze Jan 2022 #1

poor lil things Demovictory9 Jan 2022 #31

Looks like a Polar Bear embryo. Emile Jan 2022 #2

Star Trek Discovery's Spore Drive Beetwasher. Jan 2022 #3

Great, so they can evolve into a highly advanced species that comes back to kill us all Effete Snob Jan 2022 #4

I am 100% sure there is a movie in this story. Irish_Dem Jan 2022 #6

Watch Harbinger Down nt sarisataka Jan 2022 #19

Thanks for the rec, I am going to watch it this afternoon. Irish_Dem Jan 2022 #20

Holy crap, a sci fi movie with Tardigrades. Scientists should have watched this movie. Irish_Dem Jan 2022 #25

I have loved those little sarisataka Jan 2022 #26

Once they go rogue, not so adorable. :( Irish_Dem Jan 2022 #27

True, if they ever mutated sarisataka Jan 2022 #29

Between Covid and global warming, maybe they will be the only things left on the planet. Irish_Dem Jan 2022 #32

Acta Astronautica Is an open-access journal, so the article is freely available. JHB Jan 2022 #5

So... it's okay to bio-pollute space with earth organisms, but TygrBright Jan 2022 #7

Water Bears VGNonly Jan 2022 #8

Hey! The lights just dimmed. keithbvadu2 Jan 2022 #9

What do you call a Republican tardigrade? Doodley Jan 2022 #10

Sounds like Dr Evil's going interstellar NotASurfer Jan 2022 #11

They say if it does reach a planet, the collision will sterilize it muriel_volestrangler Jan 2022 #12

There is method to the madness: Disaffected Jan 2022 #17

They think they can survive it - though the acceleration is really huge muriel_volestrangler Jan 2022 #18

OK, thanks. Disaffected Jan 2022 #30

The whole project seems pretty nuts. lagomorph777 Jan 2022 #42

The communication part of it is not all that implausible. Disaffected Jan 2022 #44

Relativistic flight boldly going where no man has gone before, in days. Hortensis Jan 2022 #13

This is cruelty to animals. I don't care how tiny or "insignificant". Coventina Jan 2022 #14

They're below cockroaches on the evolutionary tree NickB79 Jan 2022 #15

I'm against it, for the most part, with some exceptions. Coventina Jan 2022 #22

Every human that has ever gone to space his carried over 1 million mites with them. Dial H For Hero Jan 2022 #33

What you describe about prior astronaut missions is completely different Coventina Jan 2022 #34

But you did speak of the need for (somehow) getting consent from microorganisms before launching Dial H For Hero Jan 2022 #35

I understand. In Buddhism, intent matters. Coventina Jan 2022 #36

Um, they are microscopic, the largest ones about a millimeter long. Protecting those likely... Hekate Jan 2022 #37

No, many Buddhists include the microscopic as well. Coventina Jan 2022 #38

This message was self-deleted by its author Disaffected Jan 2022 #16

Here is what they will evolve into in a few thousand years on those planets Quixote1818 Jan 2022 #21

Fascianting. Torchlight Jan 2022 #23

It's great that a tardigrade can be accelerated to .3C by lasers, wheee! JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2022 #24

I recall launching pill-bugs in the payload section of a dry-propellant rocket as a lad pecosbob Jan 2022 #28

tardigrades are so small how are they going to hold massive lasers? Shellback Squid Jan 2022 #39

why would we send defenseless tardigrades to stars that have massive lasers? Shellback Squid Jan 2022 #40

That's really cool and all, ForgedCrank Jan 2022 #41

Are they temperamental tardigrades? sakabatou Jan 2022 #43