We FINALLY Understand Why Tardigrades Refuse to Die

[@DrBenMiles]

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[@LucenProject]

Do their DNA repair proteins also have higher than standard accuracy?

[@CloudaceMC]

my brain has calculated you need a 600 GHZ signal with the power of 10 nuclear bombs behind it

[@tonyrmathis]

Obviously the enemies of our Alien overlords sent us these guys to protect life on earth from total annihilation. Thanks our unknown Alien allies!

[@ronmiller3741]

But they cared about this chubby tiny guy and not us 😭😭😭

[@tonyrmathis]

@@ronmiller3741 Considering how some of us act I can see why.

[@unknown5150variable]

we're the aliens.

[@YSL_Dari]

TRUUUEEEEEEEEE HELLL YEA U KNOW SOME BRUH I FW DAT💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🗣️🗣️

[@YSL_Dari]

​@@unknown5150variable no bro. we mother earth and father sun children and bacteria and virus n stuff living on meteors n shi. they aliens. if we raise they level they might evolve to scary beings im looking forward to Earth new update fr

[@user-xp8nq5mf9y]

Literally built different.

[@christeenhinton5336]

Very interesting. Thank you. I'm 76 and learn something new every day.

[@notchbeard9007]

The melting girl was nightmare fuel.

[@Julian-tf8nj]

*yes, quite disgusting!* I can't believe that YT and content creators are hellbent on censoring NIPPLES, even in classical statues, but ok with this cr@p (very thoughtless move in an otherwise good video); it lost my "like" on this! One more and I'll un-subscribe!

[@LaurelPapworth]

I think it’s from Three Body Problem on Netflix about a physics puzzle. You may want to avoid that too …

[@Astral-Cosmonaut]

Which ?

[@gustavlicht9620]

It is from the 3 Body Problem. Rehydrate the masses!

[@uazuazu]

It's from the Three Body Problem TV series, where the aliens on a planet in that three-body star system have to survive very extreme changes as their planet gets thrown out far from the suns temporarily. So they can desiccate and be reanimated as a survival feature. They don't really look like humans, but it was translated into human representation to explain it to the humans in the TV series in a kind of VR simulation. So I guess the link to tardigrades is the reanimation after desiccation.

[@katesisco]

My question then would be , how many other examples of 'ACCIDENTAL' survival skills are there? This supreme set of survival skills seem to be unmatched but, if your theory is correct, there would have to be other equally talented survivors ?

[@tonyrmathis]

Yes. At what point is accidental more unlikely than the fantastic?

[@Chameleonred5]

I know enough about biology not to doubt it, but unfortunately not enough to give you specific examples. I'd suggest researching if you really want to know.

[@tonyrmathis]

@@Chameleonred5 Yeah but it seems the go to answer for every extremely difficult question is years and years of chance.

[@Mavendow]

Humans. What other Earth creature has evolved sapience?

[@Kioki1-x8p]

Hope we get Tardigrades genetics & DNA added to human species, we need to expand out to space.

[@stolenlaptop]

Or just shrink us so we're less harmful n

[@sempertard]

Didn't the bad guys try this on The Expanse with the Proto Molecule?

[@os10v311]

it turns out the proto molecule was just an evolved form of teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene) which is nearly indestructible except by the heart of a star or a dim hole

[@sempertard]

@@os10v311 so if I cook with a non-stick frying pan long enough, will I start glowing blue?

[@visionshift1560]

@@os10v311 a dim hole, lol.

[@selectionn]

@@sempertard no, but you'll definitely get cancer from it.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

@@sempertard No, but you will gain weight and get moobs.

[@schitlipz]

Aww, missed an Incredible Hulk pop-culture reference when being irradiated with gamma rays. Otherwise this was both entertaining and educational. Thanks.

[@HighMojo]

Genie, I want to be immortal. Poof. Now you're a tardigrade.

[@talvayas]

They feel like a manufactured lifeform. I read too much scifi as a kid.

[@milo-qh7cv]

they are.

[@c.j.rockwell5803]

Imagine if Tardigrades were the size of a large dog? They'd be horrifying, practically invincible monsters

[@AnomieDomine]

Oh, those things that are invincible? We're going to mix them with other species and see what happens later

[@Waltitude]

They can still be shot I imagine. Hard to survive penetration thru vital areas. Either way there are two things humans are good at. One of them is making other beings go poof

[@mdsmatheus]

Seems like if you cut them they die though

[@patrickday4206]

When they start genetic engineering you'll get to witness a dog sized tardigrade first hand 😮

[@ncdave4life]

10:40 I store desiccated, vacuum-packed yeast in my freezer. It certainly seems to survive desiccation.

[@cat47]

yeast is a single celled organism so it's different

[@ianroseir]

And they help Star Trek Discovery navigate space...

[@fuzzyspackage]

💪🫡🫶🇬🇧

[@os10v311]

SPORE DRIVE seem a bit too much like pure fuggin magik

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

@@os10v311 And regular Warp doesn't? The series has been fantasy since the pilot, the first officer is literally a telepathic elf.

[@patrickday4206]

​@@os10v311yeah more like nonsense

[@SystemsPlanet]

I always expell water before I freeze

[@BarryHochfield]

Absolutely amazing stuff , brings me hope for the future of humanity

[@os10v311]

unfortunately humanity is doomed but on the bright side tardigrades will continue indefinitely and they'll hardly even miss us

[@Chameleonred5]

@@os10v311 If we can bio-engineer ultra-defenses to heat, cold, radiation, and blunt-force trauma, we'll survive the inevitable nuclear war. Most everything will still suck, but we'll survive.

[@snowfirebeast]

Bros worried about ethical tardagrade harvesting but probably eats chicken lol

[@danielle78730]

WOW! you're amazing!! how the sam hill hellheck have i never heard of your channel before…?! algorithm (and you!) for the win! ;) thanks, and keep up the incredible work!

[@argoitzrazkin2572]

I haven't had an update on tardigrades in years. Thank you❤. They have always been my go-to answer when being asked "what animal I would like to be in a job interview" as they always ask for clarification and I start explaining how their adaptation capability is off the charts and how this is the way I prefer to conceive my future labor challenges😂😂😂

[@CodexPermutatio]

These are the bugs that Earth sends to the galactic martial arts tournament held every galactic year.

[@magtovi]

Can withstand space radiation levels, can withstand space level temperatures. Tardigrade = alien lifeform confirmed.

[@halfnattyboomer354]

What's your secret? "Nanomachines I mean Tardigrade genes, son"

[@freddiearguelles3549]

1:32 The surname Goeze is of German origin and is typically pronounced as “GUR-tsuh” or “GOH-tsuh”, depending on regional accents and variations. The “oe” in German often sounds like the German “ö,” which is similar to the English “ur” in “burn,” and the “z” is pronounced like a soft “ts.”

[@alfredpetrossian3036]

Real Nice One, indeed. Miles, as a doctor set up a gene therapy shack and incorporate tardigrade genes into patents, after all they are more evolved with ~38K genes vs human with ~21K.

[@W333L]

Haven’t watched but I know it’s Dsup

[@oqYouDontKnowJackpo]

try a laser

[@nicholaswroblewski3069]

or bleach

[@Ezekiel903]

Tardigrades were able to prove how violent we are as a species. We tortured his species in the most cruel way just to get information about them! Tardigrades : Human 2:0

[@philosoaper]

Maybe one day we'll find out that tardigrade ancestors cane to earth and seeded life.

[@quartytypo]

Smoke them in a cigar and see how you suddenly stop aging.

[@Community_Guideline_Violator]

Aren’t these the thing from South Park?

[@billynomates920]

a protein that acts like dna glue. thanks, ben.

[@theJellyjoker]

He, he, he, he... Tardy grade, ah, ha, ha, ha, ha!

[@valsventures8795]

Imagine gettin' divorced by one

[@Mouletypasse]

"Ancestral"

[@Paul-dl7oh]

How do you boil them at 150 degrees centigrade, when water boils at 100 degrees.

[@randar1969]

Pressure when it's higher the water boiling point increases. It works the same way up high on a mountain the boiling point is lower then 100 degrees. At the bottem of the ocean you have black smokers heating the water up to 300+ degrees and it doesn't boil. Some creatures use this heat to survive even by setting up camp nearby the heat source. No light down there.

[@blueckaym]

So what's the tardigrades' life-span? (assuming nobody's trying to kill them)

[@coldvaper]

I believe its only a 3 to 4 months when fully active.

[@blueckaym]

@@coldvaper , very interesting! So they seem to survive much longer when someone's actively trying to murder them? :)

[@Music--ng8cd]

Some species can survive up to two years, according to Wikipedia

[@randar1969]

2 years of active life indeed max for some forms of tardigrades but in suspended animation due to stress up to 30 years. People should be aware that different types of tardigrades have adopted to their extreme environments they have been found in the mud of an deep ocean. And inside nuclear reactors swimming in contaminated cooling water.

[@audioblogs12]

Video didn't mention if they can survive baths in highly acidic or basic substances.

[@UwURobo]

then you could go search it up, instead of just assuming! I worry for you creatures -~-

[@stephenshanebeaty]

Turns out only a very small percentage survive these extremes so this guy's being dishonest he's acting like any tardigrade would live through any of these things and that's simply not true.

[@wadawada2390]

"trust me bro"

[@ayybe7894]

Yeah, they are plenty fragile and die all the time. They are able to go into a tun state and basically extreme hibernation until the conditions improve. They are not the only microbe to do this, they are just really, really good at it.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

He also said "Lowers the freezing point" instead of "raises" and a bunch of other factual errors of various degree.

[@silverharloe]

I would guess less "dishonest" and more "didn't look past the popular conception of them" (Hanlon's razor may well apply here)

[@Italianjedi7]

After cats, tardigrades are honestly my favorite animal. However, I have a feeling that genrticslly engineering their genes and proteins into us will not be successful. However, I am intrigued by the concept of tardigrade sunscreen. 🧐

[@os10v311]

its possible that tardigrades are so plentiful in the universe that they account for the missing mass in each galaxy, otherwise known as dark matter.

[@Lyle-In-NO]

We can miniaturize dogs. Can we "gigantize" water bears? Would you want one as a pet?

[@os10v311]

absolutely, but even better if we could imbed them as a symbiote that outlives its human host and can pass on memories and wisdom to its next host. like the Dax thing in star trek

[@Iowa599]

What does a tardigrade taste like?

[@Iowa599]

Or a spoonful of tardigrades? barbequed tardigrades?

[@Jimmy-p9n]

So did Tartigrades originate from here or are they aliens who hooked a ride on a comet and coloniswd earth?

[@stickmanlives]

A good candidate for proof of panspermia !

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

@@stickmanlives That would require them being unrelated to other animals. But they're not, they have a common ancestor on Earth that does not have the ability to survive in space. Which means they had to have started here. They also would not have been able to survive entry into the atmosphere.

[@jonamr]

Here's my take away: Enlightment just means you have achieved water bear DNA.

[@DejaVuDejaVuDejaVu]

Here AI have some real work to do : Transform all Tardigrades Super Powers to Human :)

[@BenTrem42]

Edifying and entertaining, both ... fabulous! 🙂

[@The_Penguin_City]

They have TPM 3.0 and Wifi 8.😊 That's why they can survive all. They never lost any youtube video and never get bored.

[@edbrackin]

This is how the Trisolarans survived during "Chaotic Era".

[@milo-qh7cv]

and this is how tardigrades zombie apocalypse started. tardigrades are alien zombies muahabhahahha

[@silverharloe]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that the papers about tardigrades surviving extreme environments didn't say things like "unphased," but said things like, "we were able to revive 4 or 5 percent of them." Then the science popularizers simplified the conclusions, then the internet further exaggerated them to "no damage" because, well, internet.

[@randomlettersqzkebkw]

integrate this into humans? umm.. that sounds like a recipe for zombies

[@Zazazafggt]

The intelligent life bottleneck is understanding tardigrades

[@muddkipp_1]

My Biology Teacher adopted one I found, it was fascinating ❤

[@FangPaw]

There is one downside to making humans highly resistant to ionising radiation - it would make all forms of radiotherapy for cancer ineffective. And maybe chemotherapy. Has anyone tested the ability to of tardigrades to resist mutagens/DNA-damaging chemicals? One would predict that the DNA-protective and repair mechanisms would be equally effective in this scenario, too.

[@JH-zo5gk]

The water bear drying out before freezing makes sense. Don't want your grape to crack when frozen? Well then freeze raisins.

[@Grapheneolic]

So in the 3 body problem series humanity is basically invaded by tardigrades

[@ezequielsanuy8895]

Tardiman could emerge from that experiment

[@HobbesNJoe]

How do you suppose they grew and concentrated enough Tardigrades to make a paste (in useful quantities) from their corpses?

[@Th3_UnKnOwN_PrO]

Most of the experiments u cited in the beginning actually had varying survival rates. Most if not all of those experiments did NOT have a 100% survival rate. Your "didn't phase them in the slightest" comment just needs some correction.

[@bokchoiman]

The tardigrade is why I think life is abundant.

[@michaelk5007]

Can we identify a unique ability in a tartigrade, like a personality quirk or knowing a maze pathway, then see whether the re-animated version of itself maintains that ability / quality ?

[@MaximusDGladiator]

16:39 hmmm i wonder where the idea sparked for a cylindrical structure.... cant quite put my finger on it.. now where have I seen those.. Ill get back to you

[@williamallen2777]

Most people misunderstand dimensions. The word dimension comes from the Greek word for measurement. Dimension is just measurement. Measuring space time, temperature, speed, size, pressure, gravity, saturation, or radiation. These are all dimensions. They live in a different dimension than us

[@addmoreice]

Tardigrades have been found in high atmospheric dust, just...naturally. This suggests that they could be spread through this way as well. Being able to survive low pressure would mean they would spread just about anywhere, even if the dust/pollen gets shunted into the high atmosphere.

[@mathaifenn]

This can help us create universal soldiers to help fight for freedom, justice and the American Way of Life around the world

[@dougclendening5896]

That's it. Proof that tardigrades came from space.

[@callyman]

Adorable?! When I first saw them I thought they where terrifying, now after many years they're more benign.

[@MrStringybark]

It seems obvious to me that tardigrades where the original creatures that all animals descended from.

[@ericrotsinger9729]

I love listening to people smarter than myself. These crids came from somewhere else.

[@txxredtache]

Excellent stuff, thanks!. Knew i followed you for a reason.

[@crawkn]

Wouldn't the tardigrade "glass-like proteins" also make a good glue? Not waterproof, but in some applications that can be a feature.

[@sebas11tian]

14:24 currently, "ancestrel" is considered a misspelled adjective. It's a common error in native speakers so maybe one day it will be correct.

[@gorloxian]

If you were say, oh, an alien living in a world about to go tits up..maybe you would engineer something like this to say hello..or just to say: don't be like us, and figure out a way to survive malignancy in your species.

[@anubis9139]

Let's be clear about this. When exposed to these extreme environments, most of them do die off; but some of them are able to survive. That is still very impressive, but I almost always hear people talk about tardigrades like they are immortal and indestructible. They very much are not.

[@bradweir3085]

We just need to splice tardigrade dna with an immortal jelly fish and rabbits and we'll have something akin to Grey Goo.

[@milo-qh7cv]

stop smoking the cheap stuff please it is not good for your surviving brain cells

[@user-wy4mp9ts3u]

But you have a head that is your problem if you would give that up you to could have eternal life

[@os10v311]

i'm trying to get a CRISPR so i can splice in some tardigrade dna to gain invulnerability and immortality

[@marcush4741]

I didnt see it here... but it need to be mentioned. Tardigrades are a group of species. Theyre all extremophiles, but no ONE tardigrade species is immune to ALL of the things you mentioned. Virtual immunity to pressure in a tardigrade sprcies doesnt necessarily even a minute amount of immunity to heat.

[@gorloxian]

I really think we need to start to analyze the genomes of these critters in the context of cryptography.

[@Lyle-In-NO]

Noooo! "Ancestral environment theory?" don't let the ancient alien astronaut theory wackos hear about this. They'll never shut up once they hear about this.

[@noThankyou-g5c]

8:40 how could we ever apply this to humans 😂

[@DaveR187]

with this repair ability we'd likely eliminate cancer as well, as that is in general sense DNA damage, without that damage no cancer, not only that what about DNA damage from aging, this could also be a key to extend the healthy time we have in our extending lifespans

[@okasuko]

I'm pretty sure my great grandmother is a tardigrade. She's lived seemingly forever and gets more dry than a dust bin.

[@mitaskeledzija6269]

They are like small transformers that go into stasis :O woah so cool and adowable :3

[@Renatus_Eruditus]

Did he just say "shriveled dessicated balls"? 😝

[@seekerofthemutablebalance5228]

Still wondering How did they do a drive by on that tiny superbear?

[@jaseboon6282]

The Uncanny T-Men - Children of the Tardigrade

[@SpydrXIII]

remember, this does not go for all tardigrades. each species has different extremes they can withstand, not all of them at once.

[@stickynorth]

Don't be "Tardy for the Party" just took on a whole new surreal aspect... Of course they'll be late, they've gone all millennia to do what they want with a lifespan like that! ;-)

[@TheDuckAndRogerTheHorse]

Good stuff. I really enjoyed this.

[@gawadroit5010]

mentioning harry potter is kinda cringe

[@AFGautonompunk]

what a stunning story and video! it's so much interesting you've shown on the horizon of humankind and i now partly oppose that i already live today. however, one question remains, how do Tardigrades survive mechanically being shot ?

[@vascodagama6310]

Squeeze it under the hydraulic press machine

[@MelindaGreen]

Tardigrades from space may not be such a crazy idea if panspermia is common, causing virtually all life in this part of the universe to be related. In that way, tardigrades could have arrived after related life had progressed far enough to support them here.

[@michaelbrinks8089]

Did Tardigrades form on earth or hitch a ride on a comet or meteorite here to earth?

[@ronwilliams4184]

I find it oddly comforting that even if we destroy ourselves and all other animals, the tardigrades will still be quietly going about their lives.

[@derrickjosetaylor84]

Came here for the "why" on the title, got scam with a bunch of how's

[@JustSomeWeirdo]

Did not like the melting girl, otherwise great video.

[@unknown5150variable]

The radiation endurance and proteins action makes me wonder what uses cancer researchers are looking at.

[@limabravo6065]

The Terminator remake or next remake won't have Arnold instead skynet will send a macro tardigrade programmed to Terminate John connor.. unlike the machines from other movies, you really can't kill this guy. The movie will end with a world ruled not by humans or skynet, but rather giant tardigrades

[@vkjs2]

It looks almost as if we are made in large part of water and can’t structurally do without it, where they are more of a structure that can come alive when hydrated. As if we evaporate on the whole where for them it’s just the insides. Makes you wonder what other liquids could inflate them into hydraulic locomotion - or whatever the scientific term may be. Has this been looked at? Did anyone try hydrating a tun with, I don’t know, oil or liquid hydrogen / oxygen /nitrogen? Gallium? 👀💀

[@SusanBell-dl5gr]

You are all missing the point, these are the 3D presence of higher life forms.