Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts


19 MAY 2021

We can now add "being fired out of a gun at high speeds" to the growing list of weird things tardigrades can survive.

How do we know? Scientists actually did it - and, believe it or not, it's for a good cause. They wanted to know if tardigrade-like organisms could survive certain conditions in space, in order to place constraints on where and how we might be able to find extraterrestrial life in the Solar System - and how we might avoid contaminating it.

https://www.sciencealert.com/tardigr...red-from-a-gun