The discovery also opens up many theoretical possibilities: Is it possible for small organisms with naturally occurring nanosuits to survive interstellar travel? And will scientists someday be able to fashion thin membranelike suits that allow humans to survive in a vacuum?
Cool! Been saying for years that the key to amazing, truly futuristic spacesuits was nanotechnology. Didn't expect them to find anything this soon, though.
To: LibWhacker
and the electron beam didn’t kill it, either?
2 posted on
04/18/2013 1:15:31 PM PDT by
Rio
(Tempis Fugit.)
To: LibWhacker
Sometimes when you gaze into the electron microscope, the electron microscope gazes back.
To: LibWhacker
5 posted on
04/18/2013 1:23:35 PM PDT by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: LibWhacker
Velikovsky pursued this notion with FLIES
7 posted on
04/18/2013 1:36:41 PM PDT by
muawiyah
To: LibWhacker
I’ve had that — the sunburn skin that peels off after a few days!
To: LibWhacker
Will they survive in my Dyson?
To: LibWhacker
Now all we have to do is get the insects to another planet in under an hour.
10 posted on
04/18/2013 2:33:23 PM PDT by
DannyTN
To: LibWhacker
Wouldn’t it still have to be pressured for humans?
12 posted on
04/18/2013 2:42:58 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: LibWhacker
Invincible Fruit flies. Great . . .
13 posted on
04/18/2013 5:05:36 PM PDT by
BraveMan
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