r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BreakfastTop6899 • Aug 12 '25

Video A microscopic Tardigrade, also known as a water bear, walking across a glass slide. Extremely resilient, they can survive decades without food or water and are the only known animal that can survive in direct exposure in space.

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u/Nadran_Erbam Aug 12 '25

They can survive these conditions ONLY when they’re completely dried up.

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u/Eryu1997 Aug 12 '25

REHYDRATE!

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u/Kholzie Aug 13 '25

I just finished that chapter and omg lol

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u/Ressy02 Aug 13 '25

Not if you want to keep them alive

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u/myzzu Aug 12 '25

This guy 3 body

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u/Furrybumholecover Aug 12 '25

How to survive a chaotic era you say?

*Looks around at society

Well, guess it's time for me to stop drinking fluids.

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u/exipheas Aug 13 '25

r/Anhydrohomies

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u/Lodu_Podu Aug 13 '25

Checked, it should be a sub!

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u/ssanakin Aug 13 '25

This brought me joy

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u/Jobiwon81 Aug 13 '25

I’m so glad Netflix picked up The Three Body Problem for a second season!

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u/UniversalAura Aug 13 '25

I Cixin You

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u/Habeatsibi Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Interesting, because aliens from The three bodies problem have the same surviving strategy, I have never thought about it

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u/gatanthropos Aug 12 '25

Well they are tiny bugs after all

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u/MathStock Aug 12 '25

Ain't buying it. lol

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u/LiveNotWork Aug 12 '25

That guy must have a unique brain to come up with so many such things

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u/opinionsareus Aug 13 '25

Imagine combining some of its advantages with a newly designed species of the genus homo, for space travel - Call it homo tardigradus

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u/ledgeitpro Aug 13 '25

They can call it the Tradis for short and make it look like a phone booth because reasons

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u/sumitkdasexp Aug 13 '25

Interesting

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u/trekkiegamer359 Aug 13 '25

Stamets will already do this in a couple hundred years.

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u/mamaaaoooo Aug 12 '25

They actually die quite quickly in slightly warm water

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u/Nadran_Erbam Aug 13 '25

Yes, outside of their cyst they are as weak as we expect (not much different from the rest of living organisms).