Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful

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• HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  About to get these tough little guys deported to El Salvador.

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  • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    not even tardigrades can survive CECOT

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They can, but they are not coming out alive.

      Meaning they will have to outlive CECOT.

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    • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I bet I could. 😎

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• misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wtf?

  Image

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• techfox@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s finally hope to get a tattoo on my micropenis!

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    micropenis

    Resident much? ~😉~

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• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They put the tardigrades onto surfaces cooled to below -226 degrees Fahrenheit (-143 degrees Celsius), and covered the tiny creatures in anisole, an anise-scented organic compound.

  If it’s not enough that they froze them, then they covered them in licorice flavor and tattooed them with it. I literally didn’t realize you could torture something so.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  only around 40% of the tardigrades survived, but the researchers say this could improve with further refinement. Nevertheless, the study suggests that researchers could use this method to print microelectronics or sensors onto living tissue.

  “This approach provides new insights into tardigrades’ resilience

  The only thing that can kill tardigrades are tattoos.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    hold up…

    they gonna start tattooing the 5G chips in our brains now? did they give up trying to inject them with vaccines? are vaccines safe now?

    nvm, they cause autism.

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    • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, autism causes vaccines

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• Mildetoast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Next thing you know they’re gonna form tardigangs!

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• loaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tattardigrades are now my favorite things.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wonder what you would call it if they were in a blue phone box.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And they didn’t do a heart with a banner in front of it that says “Mom”?

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• TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead

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  • theherk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Still Alive

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Here’s a song about tardigrades that I often get stuck in my head

  youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Got a non YouTube version?

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    • Nachtnebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just use invidious: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=aCkSr0ugTIM

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Aww, poor lil guys :(

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m sure nobody knew how cruel human tattoos would be to our survival either but look at us now…

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• SouthFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  At least we can identify if it was an HP, Xerox, or Brother printer that printed these tardigrades

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• Microw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ah yes, exactly what I tell my boss when I do stupid stuff for fun

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• Elgenzay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They did surgery on a tardigrade

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• knightmare1147@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They did surgery on a grape

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