tardigrades

Microbes can be engineered to be immune to most dangers from space travel as well, similar to tardigrades.

The Almighty Wiki says 'Usually, tardigrades are about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long when they are fully grown'.

So this is interesting: It's not just the harsh environs of outer space that tardigrades can survive in.

That poses an issue for electronics as well as any living beings that aren't tardigrades.

If that ever happens, perhaps tardigrades will inspire the techniques used in the process.

Someone could probably spin a great science fiction story around the idea that tardigrades are an advance team for exploration by extraterrestrials.

Off topic question: What kind of nutrients does a spoonful of tardigrades provide?

There is no intended implication for intelligence behind the extremophile behavior of tardigrades.

But from the pictures, it appears that this is not the case; tardigrades are approximately oval shaped, not much narrower than they are long.

If Rahm is to be believed, tardigrades can survive even higher temperatures.

Neil deGrasse Tyson said tardigrades survived all five of earth's mass extinctions.

I imagine that instead, whatever cellular processes tardigrades exhibit might be somehow induced in humans.

As for the "Texas Tardigrades" proposal: the name sounds too much like "retard".

I have to say I love Tardigrades, but without a food source they are not going to survive.

I don't know if you know this but 'Tardigrades' are the only living beings that survived all the four ice ages.

Chrome could learn a thing or two from Tardigrades.