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🐻Tardigrades have survived low Earth orbit exposure while dehydrated. The trick is cryptobiosis, DNA protection, and being biologically overbuilt for conditions that would turn most animals into regret.
🐻Meet the tardigrade: a microscopic, eight-legged, barrel-shaped water bear that can survive a vacuum, boiling water, radiation 1,000× the lethal dose for humans, and the cold of deep space. Meanwhile, you've been killed twice today by a slightly cool breeze.
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Can Tardigrades Survive Space? is answered through the cited WTFScience articles below. Start with the linked explainers, then check each article's source list for the peer-reviewed papers behind the claim.
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