Tardigrades might be the single most adorable micro organisms in existence.
I’ve often wondered what it’d be like to have one as a pet. I mean… okay… I’m probably surrounded by a ridiculously large number of them. And growing one to the size of, say, a guinea pig could potentially have some pretty horrible results, so…
I still wonder, though… so much that, um… I went and got the next best thing…
But before I tell you what, here’s a bit of a confession…
This one is lighter than my last confession, I promise…
I have stuffed animals.
Yup. I do.
Because I may be 29 years old, but I actively refuse to be an adult.
Here’s one of them:
Blue Tardigrade Plushie
Blue Tardigrade Plushie
Blue Tardigrade Plushie
Blue Tardigrade Plushie
That’s right… a Tardigrade plush. If you love Tardigrades as much as I do, you should get one, as well…
The mildly deranged penguin points out (a) Must think bigger, anything incapable of stepping on the Capital building and not noticing it is far too small; and (b) Stepping on said building during hair furor’s State of Trumpland
speechdelusional rant when most of the dalekocracy and the elected anti-representatives are also inside, is not necessarily a horrible result. Especially if it then poops on the rubble.I’ve often wondered how NASA can be so sure that one of the Mars rovers didn’t take a few tardigrades along.
One of the later David Attenborough videos had some amazing footage of a tardigrade; I guess they must have developed some kind of 3D microscope video camera. I thought it was a 3D rendering it was so clean and beautiful.
Oh, this song is relevant again! Death vs Tardigrades.
Marcus Ranum @ #2:
Do you know what video that’s in? I want to see it…