Ok it's a tardigrade, or water bear, not a louse, but it still makes me itch to look at it. Deep Sea News reports that these things can live in just about any conditions and therefore some researchers want to see if they can live in space. I just hope the highly intelligent advanced civilizations that watch us with such interest (according to certain websites I've seen) don't catch wind of it or we might find ourselves swimming in a giant bath of RID.
Tardigrades rule! I did a biology report on them in high school. They're also called moss piglets. Some scientist somewhere rehydrated a batch of them that had been sitting around dried out for 25 years and a few of them were still alive.
Posted by: Sean H | September 28, 2007 at 04:11 PM
Don't our astronauts kind of look like that in their EVA suits these days?
Okay, not so many limbs, but...
Posted by: McGehee | September 29, 2007 at 08:35 AM
Can you give me some links of those sites about the intelligent advanced civilizations watching us?
Posted by: Venus | September 30, 2007 at 05:46 PM
Venus, I'm joking. They're mostly nuts.
Posted by: gail | September 30, 2007 at 09:13 PM
Oh... ;)
Posted by: Venus | October 02, 2007 at 12:55 PM