I am a real idiot to do this: The first voyager to another star may be a worm or a tardigrade 🐛👽 A microscopic nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, which is much studied and well understood by biologists, can be frozen for years and yet, within minutes of thawing in a drop of warm water, begin to squirm, eat and reproduce as if no time had passed.

Sunday, November 5, 2017

The first voyager to another star may be a worm or a tardigrade 🐛👽 A microscopic nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, which is much studied and well understood by biologists, can be frozen for years and yet, within minutes of thawing in a drop of warm water, begin to squirm, eat and reproduce as if no time had passed.

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