Tardigrades can live for decades

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Only decades? Well that rules them out for being an agent of panspermia.

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WaterBear_Swimming

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Maybe there are panspermic tardigrades experiencing time dilation due to near-light speed velocities.

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It’s almost as if, when they come out of their suspension, these tardis have traveled through time!

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Big deal. I do that on the weekends.

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Were tardigrades the model for the alien race in “The Three-Body Problem”? I always wondered.

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Absolutely obligatory:

Death vs Tardigrades

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