{"id":1255,"date":"2011-05-15T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/water-bears-ftw\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T01:37:00","slug":"water-bears-ftw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/water-bears-ftw\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Bears FTW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/_p1tHljTr_Y\/itty-bitty-critter-c.html\">Itty Bitty Critter Committee to join human astronauts on Shuttle Endeavour<\/a>: &#8220;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"funcrypta06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/13\/funcrypta06.jpg?w=625\" ><\/p>\n<p>Oh, sure,  human astronauts will be on board Space Shuttle Endeavour&#8217;s STS-134 mission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/13\/on-eve-of-endeavours.html\">set to launch Monday<\/a>. But so will <a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.org\/life\/microbes.html\">five microscopic life forms<\/a>: Water Bears, also known as Tardigrades (shown above); the bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans and Bacillus subtilis; and the archaea Haloarcula marismortui and Pyrococcus furiosus. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/life\/\">More about &#8216;Shuttle LIFE&#8217; here, via the Planetary Society<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em><small>Tardigrades image <a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k\/tardigrades\">via Google Knol<\/a>.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<br \/><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/13\/on-eve-of-endeavours.html#previouspost\">On eve of Endeavour&#8217;s last launch, &#8220;Shuttle Ennui&#8221; (Xeni on The &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/07\/05\/bandais-new-model-of.html#previouspost\">Bandai&#8217;s new model of Space Shuttle Endeavour<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/02\/09\/mission-control-radi.html#previouspost\">Mission Control radio: Space Shuttle Endeavour with ambient &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/05\/free-downloadable-na.html#previouspost\">Free, downloadable NASA Endeavour STS-134 Mission poster <\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/04\/29\/space-shuttle-endeav-3.html#previouspost\">Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-134 launch: snapshots from media camp &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/04\/28\/xeni-at-space-shuttl.html#previouspost\">Xeni at space shuttle Endeavour launch for SpaceFlightNow webcast &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/04\/28\/space-shuttle-endeav-1.html#previouspost\">Space Shuttle Endeavour on launchpad, illuminated by lightning &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/04\/29\/space-shuttle-endeav-2.html#previouspost\">Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-134 launch: BB liveblog on-site &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2008\/09\/08\/water-bears-survive.html#previouspost\">Water bears survive open space<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/17\/water-bears-in-space.html#previouspost\">Water bears &#8230; in space<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2007\/09\/26\/hardy-lil-critters-w.html#previouspost\">Hardy li&#8217;l critters will be first tested in open space <\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/12\/08\/water-bears-rock-out.html#previouspost\">Water Bears rock out<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2006\/03\/14\/water-bears-worlds-t.html#previouspost\">Water Bears: world&#8217;s toughest animal<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2008\/06\/27\/earths-most-extreme.html#previouspost\">Earth&#8217;s most extreme lifeforms <\/a><\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c2aab259a17e8b7ffc72ed7c40e18c37&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c2aab259a17e8b7ffc72ed7c40e18c37&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/amch.questionmarket.com\/adsc\/d887846\/17\/909940\/adscout.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/_p1tHljTr_Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itty Bitty Critter Committee to join human astronauts on Shuttle Endeavour: &#8220; Oh, sure, human astronauts will be on board Space Shuttle Endeavour&#8217;s STS-134 mission set to launch Monday. But so will five microscopic life forms: Water Bears, also known as Tardigrades (shown above); the bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans and Bacillus subtilis; and the archaea Haloarcula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-kf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}