Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
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Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
Last week, Irregular Times writer Peregrin Wood wrote about a super-secure space mission dedicated to releasing microscopic animals called tardigrades into the deep, cold, empty, irradiated vacuum of outer space. Peregrin Wood promised that “Any time now, scientists will examine the water bears that were retrieved from the vacuum of outer space, and look to see if they are still alive.”
Oh, how naive.
Four days later now, and the report on the tardigrades from outer space is, dare I say, a little bit tardy.
What are they trying to hide? More importantly, what are they really trying to do, exposing the tardigrades to the cosmic radiation of outer space? Anyone who has read a Fantastic 4 comic book can imagine the implications of super-powered little microscopic animals unleashed on the world.
A dictator with that kind of power could rule the world. No one would have the power to resist. Is that what this space mission was really all about? Designing a new tardigrade biological weapon to enable the wicked people behind the scenes to make us all slaves?
The lead researcher on the Tardigrades In Space project, K. Ingemar Jönsson, has not answered these questions. How convenient. I wonder why? Could it be that no one has bothered to translate the phrase, “None dare call it a tardigrade conspiracy” into Swedish?
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September 30th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Did you say the Tardigrade project? Is Doctor Who involved?
September 30th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
OMG, they’re actually referring to the equipment as TARDIS (TARDigrades In Space) hardware.
http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/
And the little thingies they say are suppose to look like microscopic bears look exactly like Daleks.
http://tardigrades.bio.unc.edu/
Exterminate!
October 1st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
For once, I think Disaster Dan is actually on to something. Invasion from Space!
February 8th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Whatever happened to this report?
Why is it being suppressed?
February 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
sometimes , humans do the stupidest things! yeah, let’s take microbes, germs, DNA, whater else is laying around the lab, send it into space make soup, and bring it back HOME! dumbasses, really!
wait, didn’t they already do something like that, with a bacteira, strep maybe? and found that a few days in space made it STONGER & more DEADLY that before? DAN you must know.
they also do this when they dig really old stuff up. i remeber another story, where the found microbes in very deep layers of ice or permafrost, unlike anything known today.
now i’m not advocating that we not study our own planet(while we have one), but SOME care? SOME COMMON SENSE?
maybe it is too much to ask.