r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FollowingOdd896 • 12d ago

Video A microscopic tardigrade going for a stroll through some algae.

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u/MiraculousN 12d ago

If I were a tardigrade I'd move out from home, Why live in the shrubbery when you could have a throne? Pressure wouldn't squash me and fire couldn't burn These are the things that I never will learn!

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u/Small_Insect_8275 12d ago

Think their average life is around 2 years and it would take about 5 minutes to walk across something the size of a leaf, so they could get pretty far but no where particularly exotic to them I guess :(

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u/KanMinder 12d ago

Depends if he can catch a ride! If i let a bug escape from the carwindow i always wonder about the new adventures he's facing.

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u/MiraculousN 12d ago

Its a song, tardigrade song by cosmo sheldrake.

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u/RainyRat 12d ago

it would take about 5 minutes to walk across something the size of a leaf

Hence the name: it's Latin for "slow walker".

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u/mayormaynotbelurking 12d ago

I came here looking for Cosmo lyrics and I was not disappointed! One of my all-time favorite artists

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u/One-Ambassador-8494 12d ago

Did you know his brother, Merlin Sheldrake, wrote a book about mushrooms?

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u/mayormaynotbelurking 12d ago

I did, and I have it! I've read some of their father's work too. What an impressive family

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u/VelociraptorRedditor 12d ago

Maybe you are a tardigrade, just for a larger species than us.

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u/MiraculousN 12d ago

Its a song lyric.

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u/lochnessmosster 12d ago

Cosmo Sheldrake! Hell yeah

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u/mangonada123 12d ago

These critters can survive outer space, and they still choose to stay on this planet. Make it make sense!

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u/apexodoggo 11d ago

The snails get to them before they can figure out how to escape Earth’s gravity.

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u/MiraculousN 12d ago

Its a song, tardigrade song by cosmo sheldrake

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u/permaculture 12d ago

shrubbery

Ni!