Tardigrades: Adorable Extremophiles
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Uploaded by scishow on Jan 11, 2012
Hank explains why NASA and the European Space Agency are in love with tardigrades and how these extremophiles are helping us study the panspermia hypothesis.
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Credits:
Produced by Hank Green
Chief Editor: Blake de Pastino
Cinematography: Nick Jenkins
Video Editor: Matt Ferguson
Graphics: Amber Bushnell
Written by: Hank Green
TAGS: tardigrade, water bear, moss piglet, extremophile, inhospitable, environment, revive, dormant, dormancy, absolute zero, radiation, pressure, vacuum, outer space, space, NASA, european space agency, space shuttle, endeavor, TARDIS, panspermia, meteorite, science, scientists, scishow, hank green, dose
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Sucking water off...
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tartigrade+honey badger=FUCK RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
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send tardigrades to the moooooooon!
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You said you weren't going to make a joke about Panspermia, yet the very next thing you talk about is one mass meeting another mass (Earth) and causing it to eject parts of itself into space... subtle! :D
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ca.. can i haz one? ... i pretty much murder all other fish, turtles, lizards, ect, that i keep as pets. yeah.. tardigrades..
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Could you do a video on time (which is apparently really relative and odd)
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toughest animal... Chuck Norris, attacking thousands of deathstars...
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honeybadger
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I heard about water bears on The Most Extreme like six years ago! :D
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so spore the game in a nutshell thats actually pretty sweet
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Like if you clicked just for the Tardis :D
adamboy7777 1 day ago 68
So....not very sciency request here, but could you do something Doctor Who related on here?
Azvee 2 days ago 39