Tardigrades: We're now polluting the moon with near indestructible little creatures

@ekename,

Does that littl critter remind us of someone , or is it only me?? Put some orange comb over on it and a loooong red tie and a fat man suit.

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@InfraBlue,

Is there any limit to your hatred of Israel?

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@farmerman,

It's only you

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Yeah! Because a sterile lunar environment is so cool!

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Life has taken on every environmental challenge and won.

Since we live we should think this is pretty damned cool.

Desolate islands on earth became fountains of life because of birds shitting on them.

Who the hell wants to protect the lifelessness of the Moon?

Oh, Infrablue...because it was the Israelis who seeded it.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Is there any limit to your hatred of Israel?

Where do you get that from?

Is there any limit to your sycophancy?

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Life has taken on every environmental challenge and won.

Since we live we should think this is pretty damned cool.

Desolate islands on earth became fountains of life because of birds shitting on them.

Who the hell wants to protect the lifelessness of the Moon?

Oh, Infrablue...because it was the Israelis who seeded it.

God but you're ever the assumptive asshole.

I'm a rock hugger. I'd be just as peeved had the Micronesians infected the Moon with these organisms.

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@InfraBlue,

For the first billion years of Earth's history it was lifeless. Are you upset that life took over this planet?

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@InfraBlue,

From the majority of your posts

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@InfraBlue,

I doubt it

What the heck is a rock hugger anyway?

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@maxdancona,

maxdancona wrote:

For the first billion years of Earth's history it was lifeless. Are you upset that life took over this planet?

He's a "rock hugger" don't you know.

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@maxdancona,

We had no part in it.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

This didn't involve Israel's oppression of the Palestinian peoples.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

The equivalent of a tree hugger in a sterile environment like the Moon's.

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@InfraBlue,

InfraBlue wrote:

We had no part in it.

What do you mean? Why does that matter?

Earth was a lifeless ball of rock and water. Then carbon based life despoiled it. We are definitely a part of that (we are carbon based life) but I dont see why that is important.

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Infrablue's musings have gotten me to wonder...

These tardigrades are now on the moon. Are we sure that this really was human error and not part of their plan?

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@maxdancona,

I'd rather we keep things the way they are out there as much as humanly possible. Something along the lines of, "take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints."

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@InfraBlue,

InfraBlue wrote:

I'd rather we keep things the way they are out there as much as humanly possible. Something along the lines of, "take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints."

I am going to guess you aren't much of a Star Trek fan. If early human beings had your philosophy, humans would be a tribe of a couple of hundred people still hunting and gathering in Africa.

Humans evolved to be explorers, developers, and builders. I like us that way.

Don't worry, it is a big Universe. It is Ok if we poke around for a bit.

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@maxdancona,

It was part of a project from Arch Mission Foundation that aims to preserve "the knowledge and biology of our planet in a solar system wide project called The Billion Year Archive.™" in different areas of the Solar System.

Apparently, sending up the tardigrades along with their more benign payload was a last minute decision.

https://in.mashable.com/science/5651/heres-how-tardigrades-were-secretly-smuggled-to-the-moon

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@maxdancona,

Yeah, I agree for the most part. I'd just rather do it in a more considered way.

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