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Aloha Sky

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Fact of the day! Tardigrades, or waterbears, are tiny eight-legged animals that can withstand some extremely harsh environmental conditions. Specimens have even survived a 10 day stint in low Earth orbit, exposed to the hard vacuum and ionising radiation of space.
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02-Aug-2014 15:18:27

Cherish Hope
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Cherish Hope

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Hi Aloha Sky,

Tardigrades have eight legs - so do spiders. EEK!

Tardigrades can withstand ionising radiation of space - cockroaches apparently can survive that on earth.

Tardigrades can withstand extremely harsh conditions - they should join our clan - only lovely friendly atmosphere there. :)

Cheers
Cherish.

02-Aug-2014 17:11:00

Aloha Sky

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Very true, Cherish; those pesky roaches are a pretty hardy bunch too.

It's possible that neither they nor water bears would be affected by the candles a certain someone likes handing out...
The extraordinary is in what we do, not who we are

03-Aug-2014 00:58:59

Aloha Sky

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Fact of the day! Noctilucent clouds are formed from ice crystals at an altitude of about 80km, which makes them the highest clouds in the atmosphere. Normally too faint to be seen, the height at which they occur allows them to be illuminated by sunlight even after the sun has set. This means that they are most visible during twilight, when the lower layers of the atmosphere are in the Earth's shadow.
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10-Aug-2014 11:31:10

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