How Did Tardigrades End Up on the Moon? w/ Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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What are tardigrades, and how did they end up on the moon? I had the pleasure of exploring the evolution, resilience, and potential use cases of these microscopic creatures that can survive in extreme environments with Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham from Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe. Enjoy! — Key Takeaways: 00:00 Intro 01:52 Are tardigrades colonizing the moon? 04:12 A little bit about myself 08:37 Ask the wrong expert 15:03 Why are tardigrades so terrifying? 16:50 Their extreme survival abilities 26:18 How they ended up on the moon 28:29 Can they survive on the moon? 33:41 Outro — Additional resources: ➡️ Check out Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe: 🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daniel-and-jorge-explain-the-universe/id1436616330 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5t4keSVD2zRQuUEtwuoq4V — ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know in the history of our planet we've had five of these things we call mass extinctions
0:04.9	where something happens that changes the climate or the environment and a lot of species die.
0:10.7	And we've had five of those so far. Tartag grades predate even the first one.
0:15.8	They evolved before the first mass extinction and they're still here which means they've
0:20.2	survived all five of them.
0:21.8	That's a little suspicious if you ask me, if you think about it, isn't it?
0:25.6	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indestinishable from magic.
0:37.0	Open the pod bay doors now.
0:40.0	I am Jorge, I'm in cartoonism, the creator of PhD Comics.
0:43.6	Hi, I'm Daniel, I'm a particle physicist.
0:46.4	And welcome to our podcast Daniel and Jorge explain the universe,
0:50.0	a production of I-hard radio.
0:51.9	In which we go all around the universe and find interesting, weird, crazy little
0:56.4	creepy-crawly stuff to talk to you about and explain it to you in a way that hopefully you find
1:01.2	entertaining.
1:02.2	Cute little creatures and also horrifyingly scary looking creatures.
1:05.7	Sometimes they're even the same organism.
1:08.6	That's true, you know, there are lots of things which look scary when they're big and then are just cute and cuddly when they're small.
1:15.2	Like if you walk next to a mountain lion you'd be freaked out, but everybody's house cat is basically
1:20.9	a miniaturized mountain line.
1:22.8	It's all about the scale.
1:24.6	The opposite is true also.
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