 After a couple of days on #Mastodon I’m very impressed & excited to be part of this growing community! #mastodonmigration My only humble suggestion is that it needs more #tardigrades aka "water bears." Tardigrades have survived every mass #extinction on Earth since they evolved about a 1/2 billion years ago. There are ~1,300 known species. And millions of years from now, they won’t even notice we’re gone. 57 comments
 @Sheril I didn't know I was missing some water bear content until I saw it. Thank you!  @Sheril Well that HAD to be an immediate follow. I had heard that cockroaches would survive everything. I had no idea about the tardigrades. :) NB Having lived in India, cockroaches give me the heebiejeebies. ;) I would much prefer tardigrades - especially if they are such pretty colors. @Sheril tardigrades were part of some of my earliest research (light research tbh) when coming up with a story idea that is really close to my heart Also hello 👋 @Sheril that is amazing. I also find it amazing that the same mechanism that produced tardigrades, produced an intelligence that can know about the existence of tardigrades.   @Sheril I am surprised more people don't have Tardigrades as micro pets. Ever see them "walk" through an environment? Nothing that small should be that cute! @Sheril indeed! Here is a tardigrade I created a while back as a linoleum print. And now it’s a digitally printed greeting card. @Sheril A couple of years ago, my kid was a Tardigrade Cowboy for halloween. It's hard to tell, but in his holsters hanging next to the costume legs draped over his saddle, those aren't six-shooters, but rather, salmon. I'll definitely take more #tardigrade content. #Capybara content, too! @Sheril Thank you thank you! We always tried to do creative projects. Roman soldier one year, ghost pilot another, backhoe-loader another... This year was the first year he insisted on doing his own. He was The Ghost of Potatoes Past. @bennomatic @Sheril might appreciate this thread: https://twitter.com/jana_pruden/status/1587236612303642625 @Sheril They might not notice we're gone, but I hope they say "thanks for the lift" as we cart them around the solar system and beyond. :)  MORE TARDIGRADES! I've been using them as prompts in AI art generators. It usually produces fun results. Not usually scientifically accurate, though. Another tardigrade song. by Cosmo Sheldrake:  @Sheril Yes! I'll never forget discovering #microscopy with these fascinating guys at school, with a raindrop from #moss.   @Sheril here’s a musical one. Handy when my kids complain about chores, heh. @Sheril cute little guy. Kind of a cross between a cabbage and the worms from Dune. Nice change from the kitten/cat posts. Definitely could use more tardigrades posts when THAT cute! He looks like a “Sam” to me.   @Sheril at the risk of sounding low-brow in such erudite company… I immediately thought of #StarTrekDiscovery If you don’t get the reference, I’m happy to explain.  @Sheril If we want to try to make sure life survives we should put a railgun in orbit and fire tardigrades toward other star systems with habitable planets for as long as our civilization lasts. @bdunnette I'm also very impressed to be part of this growing community, nice to see so much positive. Also, I had no idea about #Tardigrades, so already learning new and interesting things. :) @Sheril I only hope they’ll be around to not notice our absence. Humans can be very enterprising in their devastation of other cohabitants of our pale blue dot.  |
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Yes! You can never have enough Tarde...Tagegiden....Tagigrades
....what you said.