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		huxley on March 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tardigrades are so tough, they can survive outer s... Just the other day I read a fascinating (to me) Quora reply to the question "What can happen if a human eats a water bear (the most resistant living organism), or gets a water bear in their blood stream?" Short answer: it gets dissolved in the stomach acid and dies. Long answer here: http://www.quora.com/What-can-happen-if-a-human-eats-a-water...

Red_Tarsius on March 13, 2015 [–]

Off topic question: What kind of nutrients does a spoonful of tardigrades provide? Would water bear farming be useful or just silly?

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