Posted on 01/11/2022 3:32:01 PM PST by fruser1
The US experts want to know how interstellar space travel affects the microscopic animals, known for an ability to survive extreme conditions including in outer space.
In a new paper, they've proposed building small space probes containing tardigrades, also known as 'water bears', that would travel at up to 30 per cent the speed of light into space.
These probes would be propelled by laser light instead of rocket fuel, from a laser array stationed on Earth, or possibly the moon.
At speeds of roughly 100 million miles per hour, tardigrades would reach the next solar system, Proxima Centauri, in roughly 20 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Dr. Fraudster is now going to torture very small creatures?
They’ll totally make up the data, and use the funding on coke and hooker parties.
Putting the “tard” in stardust.
Some alien race out there may decide we are stupid animals who deserve to be tortured to “follow the science”.
Karma can be nasty that way.
In recent experiments, tardigrades have been fired out of a gun to test if they could survive various landings on celestial bodies in space, as well as space’s harsh conditions
The tiny animals survived impact velocities of 825 meters per second, taking varying times to recover.
However, their survival rate fell to 0 once they were fired at velocities of 901 meters per second.
And what will the residents of those stars fire back? Interstellar war begins ...
Why? We’re nothing like them. Is this how we’re going to introduce Earth to the galaxy? With these things? And how do we stop or slow them down?
The Science of Discovery
I think Fauxcy is a ‘Tardingrate.
It looks like a giant a-hole
Tardigrades?
That's like the D's and F's sent home to the parents of tardish kids?
“What could possibly go wrong?”
How do you think they got here?
“They’ll totally make up the data, and use the funding on coke and hooker parties.”
I hope they get themselves a slick Corvette, too. Wouldn’t want to see all that money wasted.
Oh great, when we finally get there the tardigrades
will have colonized all the good planets
We’ll send a note so they know to send us data on the tardigrades’ condition.
The velocities do not matter. It is the acceleration or deceleration forces which are important.
“Science”, today, is more-correctly spelled “sighence”...
It is a result of the massive, engineered drop in average IQ during the past 40-years...
When you factor in the massive drop in masculine testosterone levels since the 1960s, the peasants, in all walks of life, are both dumber and weaker...
America certainly has a bright future.../s
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