Thousands of Tardigrades Stranded on the Moon After Lunar Lander Crash

Live Science ^ | August 6, 2019 11:13am ET | Mindy Weisberger,

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What in the world? After all the extreme caution that the U.S. went through to avoid any biological pollution of other worlds, Israel INTENTIONALLY sent these organisms to the moon? This seems just nuts.

[butlerweave]

Invasion of the Water Bears

[Red Badger]

Sounds like a good plot for a sci fi horror flick!........

[BenLurkin]

I’m very much in favor of biological pollution of other worlds. No sense going there if we’re not going to make ourselves right at home.

[MichaelCorleone]

I thought this might have been the Indian rocket that launched June 15th I believe.

But I guess it was Israeli.

[Libloather]

Bits of Alice?

[Sasparilla]

Terraformimg gone amok?

[tbw2]

Panspermia is now a valid theory.

[Larry Lucido]

[Wuli]

If the tardigrades can (were able after the crash) to get below the surface, their ability to survive may be even longer than most scientists think possible (more than ten years in a dehydrated suspended life state).

Given that this happened, there is legitimate reason to believe even snaller single-celled forms, like some bacteria, could survive not only extreme temperatures but radiation in the near vacuum of space, like on the moon’s surface. And were there any such life forms on the crashed moon lander?

However all life forms need some source of “food”, usually something else that is biologic, in order to LIVE. What that can be on the moon is unknown I think, if anything.

here is maybe an answer to the bacteria question.

https://www.ck12.org/biology/bacteria-nutrition/lesson/Bacteria-Nutrition-MS-LS/

[Alas Babylon!]

Does a Beresheet in the woods Moon?

[ifinnegan]

Yeah.

I was going to say it could seem to ET we’re sending out bio weapons.

[grey_whiskers]

Panspermia is now a valid theory.

Leave Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein out of this...!

[Deaf Smith]

The Moon is now infected/infested due to good intentions.

[fruser1]

“can revive from this dehydrated state after 10 years or more”

Handy.

[Jagermonster]

Tardigrade!

[henbane]

Tardigrades--the new colonizers of the Moon.

[tet68]

Spores from Space!

Yep, saw a movie about that about a zillion times.

Time for a Hollywierd remake...The Andromeda Moon.

Of course with all transexual lesbian moon maids.

[Fred Hayek]

The crew from Apollo 12 brought back some components of the nearby Surveyor 3 lander. The camera has some bacteria spores that survived.