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Space Oddity: Scientists discover Earth lifeform that can survive the vacuum of space

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2008-09-16 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...tardigrades , the small (less than 1mm long) invertebrates, pictured above and below, were sent aloft on the European Space Agency's Foton spacecraft in September, 2007, then exposed to the vacuum of space After these animals had been brought back and rehydrated, scientists found no difference in their survival and reproduction rates compared...
 
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Tiny creatures brave the vacuum, become first to ever survive open space

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2008-09-16 14:33:55 by Kevin Hall in DVICE
Tardigrades, also known as " water bears ," are hardy little creatures ranging from under below 0.1 mm to 1.5 mm. Seemingly against all logic , they can survive temperatures as cold as near absolute zero to over a scorching 300 F, go for a decade without water and withstand almost 1,000 times more radiation than the rest of the puny creatures on...
 
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