This will bug you - The indestructible micro-organisms that survive space vaccumm.

Electron1

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This will bug you - The indestructible micro-organisms that survive space vacuum.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2207828/This-bug--The-indestructible-micro-animals-survive-vacuum-space--blood.html

There is only one creature known to man which can survive the ravages of deep space.
It is the water bear - officially known as the tardigrade - and despite being a fraction of a millimetre in length and mostly consigned to a lazy life exploring pond moss, it is almost indestructible.
You can freeze it at close to absolute zero - at minus 273C - or heat it to above 151C.
Or you could keep it without water for a decade, subject it to almost any kind of pressure, or send it into the radiation-filled vacuum of space where it can survive beyond ten days without any damage.
It is just one of the micro-sized and extraordinary bugs living in our back gardens - or even in our own bodies.
 
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Amazing :)

//Starts mutating Tardigrades to make a human sized one.
 
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Are those the little goodies that spew out when you sneeze? Some amazing creatures here
 

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Are those the little goodies that spew out when you sneeze? Some amazing creatures here
Don't think so - the original article refers to these bugs as animals.
The "goodies" you refer to are smaller organisms, AFAIK.

Wow imagine some of the bugs in the link being sprayed at you in a sneeze :sick:
 

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Did not see it mentioned, but em pics are false colored?
Last time I checked the 3D microscope using electron's can not reproduce colors.

Nice pics none the less, also to add to the headline, plenty of single cell organism can last some time in space, this gave birth to the life seeding from other planets theory.
 

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Tried to see if I could find info on whether the images are original colour. couldn't find anything so you are probably correct.
Googled the science photo library though - amazing images:
http://www.sciencephoto.com/
 
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