Eldorado Posted August 7, 2019 #1 Share Posted August 7, 2019 "When you look up at the moon, there may now be a few thousand water bears looking back at you. "The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed into the moon during a failed landing attempt on April 11. In doing so, it may have strewn the lunar surface with thousands of dehydrated tardigrades, Wired reported yesterday (Aug. 5)." Full scoop at Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/66109-tardigrades-moon-israeli-lander.html Original article at Wired dot com: https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/ 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibeliever Posted August 7, 2019 #2 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Amazing creatures. It's a Tardigrade world, and we're just living in it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphalesion Posted August 7, 2019 #3 Share Posted August 7, 2019 We need to get those chubby bois home! :-( 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted August 7, 2019 #4 Share Posted August 7, 2019 I wonder if tardigrades can be genetically modified to terraform planets? Just a random thought... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmk1245 Posted August 7, 2019 #5 Share Posted August 7, 2019 (edited) 23 minutes ago, XenoFish said: I wonder if tardigrades can be genetically modified to terraform planets? Just a random thought... Fartout oxygen, I'm for it! On the other hand, Cyanobacterias are the most destructive creatures, turned whole planet from CO2 breathing, to O2..... Edited August 7, 2019 by bmk1245 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Falukorv Posted August 7, 2019 #6 Share Posted August 7, 2019 I am a tardigrade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godnodog Posted August 7, 2019 #7 Share Posted August 7, 2019 i shall name thee "MattDamondigrades" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidlung Posted August 8, 2019 #8 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Can't help myself... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Reaper 6 Posted December 15, 2023 #9 Share Posted December 15, 2023 The moon may have some unexpected visitors: tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets. These microscopic animals are the second species to reach the moon, after humans, but they did not get there by choice. They were part of a failed Israeli mission to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface in 2019. Life on the Moon Stinks (and All the Tardigrades are Dead) The mission, called Beresheet, was the first privately funded lunar mission, launched by an Israeli nonprofit organization called SpaceIL. Beresheet carried a payload of scientific instruments, a digital time capsule, and a few thousand tardigrades. The tardigrades were embedded in a thin layer of nickel on a small metal disk, along with human DNA samples and other data. Tardigrades on the Moon: Unlikely Survivors of a Failed Mission (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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