[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFods1KSWsQ[/video]

That was cool, mainly because I now know about a double-hard bug called the Tardigrade.

looks so lovely. It should be printed and place on the wall of schools. At least they can bl**dy learn something.

Fact 51:

No one reads all of the facts 🙂

That was cool, mainly because I now know about a double-hard bug called the Tardigrade.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12855775

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

Very interesting, I’m now off to sell the atmosphere 8)

That Tardigrade is so hard it even has a gatling gun for a nose!

That Tardigrade is so hard it even has a gatling gun for a nose!

LOL

Here’s another one for you…
If you took all the water ever drunk by the human population for it’s entire history and put it in the sea, it would only fill up the top 3mm.

I wonder if you took all the ice from Tethys and melted it on earth, what the coastline would look like i.e. doubled the amount of water.

Not all of them are correct though. Antarctica does not have as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.

Atlantic 310 million cubic KM water

Antartica 26.5million cubic KM ice

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/etopo1_ocean_volumes.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21692423

I respect the Tardigrade! I just love Spock!! Ace thread ….. …. ….fascinating..!!…

I respect the Tardigrade! I just love Spock!! Ace thread ….. …. ….fascinating..!!…

I also welcome our new overlords.

Nit-pick alert! How can blood boil at room temperature above 19km but humans can survive is space for 2 min?! I rather like my blood in liquid form…

Cool, Jamie, very cool. I enjoyed reading that, thank you. 🙂

Nit-pick alert! How can blood boil at room temperature above 19km but humans can survive is space for 2 min?! I rather like my blood in liquid form…

I’ve not been up there to check, but I’d hazard a guess that space is generally not room temperature…

Also you can see the Great Wall of China from space. Just not from the moon

How can blood boil at room temperature above 19km but humans can survive is space for 2 min?

Yeah I wondered that too. I guess it depends how long massive system-wide embolisms take to kill you. No one said it would be a comfortable 2 minutes!

I’d hazard a guess that space is generally not room temperature…

Yeah.. but your body warmer than room temperature (and I believe, contrary to Hollywood, that it would stay quite warm in space as there is no medium to transport heat away).

Also you can see the Great Wall of China from space. Just not from the moon

Surely you can see most things “from space” if you have a big enough telescope and it isn’t too cloudy??

Surely you can see most things “from space” if you have a big enough telescope and it isn’t too cloudy?

🙂 Very true

The one about woolly mammoths blew me away the most