Ariel Waldman

It's really just incredible to watch.

You can watch this happen under a microscope very easily.

And it's something that, you know, a lot of people are still researching so that we can better learn how they're able to come back without a huge amount of damage.

Yes.

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So while it's definitely possible, so it's like we know the science and we know it's possible they could be frozen and possibly come back to life thousands of years later.

It hasn't been as well peer reviewed as it should be.

But a lot of these creatures, they only survive for several weeks, like maybe a couple of months or so.

So their lifespans are rather short, but it's that incredible ability for them to power down over an Antarctic winter, pop back to life six months later, that they can extend their life from two months to decades, which is just incredible.

But I mean, there's also an asterisk on that that I always want to say because people are like tardigrades are the most indestructible things.

You can kill them in a couple of different ways.

One way is if you flash freeze them, you don't give them a heads up that they're losing oxygen, that things are getting cold.

They don't have any time to adapt to go into their 10 stage.

They will die like anything else.