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What’s the point of this article? It cites a paper from 2007 and references another paper from 2010. It’s an interesting factoid, but very dated information and
by octagons 3y ago
What’s the point of this article? It cites a paper from 2007 and references another paper from 2010. It’s an interesting factoid, but very dated information and the article adds nothing by way of journalism.
- smolder 3y agoPerhaps it's a filler article picked from a pile: either a pile of prewritten articles or a pile or preselected topics.
- SOVIETIC-BOSS88 3y agoOr a pile of gpt prewritten articles.
- taneq 3y agoI'd be super interested to hear your list of organisms discovered since 2007 that can survive extended exposure to low Earth orbit conditions. I was kinda hoping tardigrades would be involved but lichen would have been my second guess.
- dekhn 3y agoit's already known tardigrades can survive on the surface of space ships, but with an important caveat: they need to already be in the "tun" state, which is a dessicated husk that is metabolically inactive. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Research/Tiny_animals_survive_exposure_to_space https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex... although I guess the lichen results predate the tardigrade results.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoThe point of the article? Most likely to attract advertising dollars and pad the income of the guardian with interesting information
- helpfulContrib 3y ago[dead]