Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts

[The Heretic]

Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts

We can now add "being fired out of a gun at high speeds" to the growing list of weird things tardigrades can survive.

www.sciencealert.com

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[Certaindeaf]

Never go full tardigrade, man!

 

[Xaevian]

Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts

We can now add "being fired out of a gun at high speeds" to the growing list of weird things tardigrades can survive.

www.sciencealert.com

This is just as American as your pistol mouse trap meme. Eff Yeah! They used US water bears, I bet. No commie organisms are gonna make it through that test! Yup, the only way them moss piglets could survive was to be NOT woke at all.

 

[Flopsweat]

Never go full tardigrade, man!

Ahrite, I know when I've been outclassed. Not even going to try on this one.



EDIT:

Burchell specializes in hypervelocity impacts, and his department has a two-stage light-gas gun, which uses a two-step process to accelerate projectiles. First gunpowder, then a light gas such as hydrogen or helium placed under rapid pressurization, are used to achieve velocities up to 8 kilometers (5 miles) per second.

That's 26,400 FPS.

Two Stage Light Gas Guns - NASA

1.0 caliber, .50 caliber, and two .17 caliber two stage light gas guns are housed in the Remote Hypervelocity Test Laboratory. These guns use gunpowder

www.nasa.gov

I bet I can build a little one of them.

 

[Dr Prepper]

Never go full tardigrade, man!

Gold!