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| ▲ | sebzim4500 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Probably most would be, but there are a lot of microorganisms and only a few need to get lucky. |
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| ▲ | blooalien 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Tardigrades were placed in the "extremophile" class with good reason. If anything could survive a truly catastrophic impact event, I'd say the smart money goes on the lowly "water bear" to win. :) |
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| ▲ | Keysh a day ago | parent [-] | | Tardigrades are not "extremophiles", which refers to organisms that live (grow, reproduce) in "extreme" environments ("phile" = "like, love"). Tardigrades can temporarily survive some rather extreme conditions, but they generally require fairly ordinary environments to actually live. (As suggested by common names like "water bear" and "moss piglet".) |
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