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RE: Surviving the Extremes: The Peak of Existence, Part 2
Coincidentally I just read about tardigrades and its ability to turn itself to glass to survive. wanted to make a post about it as I find it extremely fascinating. Contamination is possible, also they run a risk of bringing down parasites/organisms (I would like to think that this is a possibility) from there to here.
Yep! If life can be knocked out of orbit here, why not there? Creepy to think about...
That's a rabbit hole we've found ourselves already into :)
It is actually a fascinating subject. How this tiny creatures survive Making conscious use of some features is awesome.
Well 'conscious' is an interesting thing. I forgot how they officially word but an imitated trait or skill can potentially be passed down epigenetically, such as the fear of a fox, without being encoded in DNA. It's possible the ballooning spides for example, may have just imitated each other and the successful ones left a genetic tag, rather than telling each other consciously.
It's something I need to read up on more, but pretty cool either way!
@eurogee, I do agree with you on that one.