Scientists want to fire 'indestructible' tardigrades to distant stars at 100 million miles per hour using massive LASERS in a bid to see how interstellar space travel affects them

UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/11/2022 | Jonathan Chadwick

[Yardstick]

The real risk is relativistic time travel effects if you get them going too fast. IOW they could wind up going backwards in time. Then we’d find ourselves being walked on leashes by our new hyperevolved tardigrade overlords.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

[aimhigh]

With a $29 trillion debt, NO!

[MV=PY]

"They’ll totally make up the data, and use the funding on coke and hooker parties."

And then just squander the rest.

[Doctor Congo]

They might interpret this as a weapon or a threat.

Proxima Centauri is 20 light years away. Earth destruction in 40 years. LOL

[Magnetar]

The spice must flow

[TangoLimaSierra]

WTF are they supposed to learn? It would take thousands of years to get data back from wherever they go.

[Silentgypsy]

Thanks. I feel better now.

[Silentgypsy]

Lol!

[Brooklyn Attitude]

How are they going to check the effect on the Tardigrades from light years away?

[algore]

Seriously this is a bad Idea.

I still get really pissed when I think about the Israeli mission that contaminated the moon with them.

WTF

why would you do that ?

We all know what will happen

[higgmeister]

It sounds like a fool's errand.   How would any data be collected?

[Clay Moore]

“Then we’d find ourselves being walked on leashes by our new hyperevolved tardigrade overlords”

I, for one, welcome our new Tardigrade overlords!

[Glad2bnuts]

How will hey know what the effect on them will be?

[TexasGator]

“The velocities do not matter. It is the acceleration or deceleration forces which are important.”

Einstein says velocity does matter.

[mcshot]

And what happens if they grow really big and get hungry.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”They’ll totally make up the data, and use the funding on coke and hooker parties.”

More likely, they work like dogs cooking up the best random number (DATA) generator possible. Then off to the local bicycle shop, everyone gets a new ride.
Anything left and it goes into the pizza fund.

They are engineers, that cannot help it.

[Graybeard58]

And how do we stop or slow them down?

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Tardigrade drag chutes.

[sit-rep]

or land on an alien planet and while the shit hits fan with gigantic creatures the aliens track the source... and retaliate!!

would truly be our luck!!

[EEGator]

You get it. :)