[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!........

[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?

[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.

[mrsmith]

I presume waterbears can fit in a human-aupporting ecology.
So ...”good news!”

[citizen]

Much ado over....