• @XeroxCool
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    310 months ago

    Mars is inhabited by robots, but the Moon is inhabited by tardigrades because China crashed a lander.

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      this one?

      Sad news for the tardigrades that were on board Israel’s Beresheet mission, which crash-landed on the Moon in 2019. Researchers have learnt that the microscopic animals, which can survive the vacuum of space and heavy-duty doses of radiation, wouldn’t have lived through the crash.

      • @XeroxCool
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        10 months ago

        Wrong country and wrong outcome, I really nailed it. Given how hardy they are, I can’t say I’m convinced they’re all dead. Not that they’d actually be active without air and water