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Why Scientists Are Stress Testing Tardigrades | WIRED
Tardigrades are microscopic animals so adaptable they can survive in some of the most extreme environments in the universe. Because of their durability, scientists are experimenting with them, trying to figure out just HOW much they can endure and what we can learn from it. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen to…
WestOfEarth
November 3, 2021 at 8:25 pm
Should begin a breeding program to increase their size until we can have pet Tardigrades running around.
D Beekman
November 3, 2021 at 8:27 pm
Tardigrades Riot, thousands of people killed, film at 11
Stone Sommers
November 3, 2021 at 8:36 pm
That is cool, especially, the blood research. But when you said using it to preserve vaccines, red flags shot up for me. If exposed to viruses it seems like it might be able to adapt it in more sinister ways. Like one of those movies were science was trying to make the world a better place, but then killed it. I guess the new RNA vaccines wouldn’t be able to do anything since it is literally half of the blueprint, but wouldn’t want this research tried on the alive/half alive vaccines.
Eirik Olsen
November 3, 2021 at 8:49 pm
It’s fascinating, but I just feel bad for the little guys…Poor tardigrades…
RootedHat
November 3, 2021 at 8:50 pm
How do tardigrades react to drugs? Or gases? Or different fluids?
BroAnarchy
November 3, 2021 at 9:02 pm
Mmmm….. _powdered _*_Blood_*
L0united
November 3, 2021 at 9:05 pm
get ready to be tardigraded.
Fabio C
November 3, 2021 at 9:11 pm
BarbascuraX made a cooler video on Tardigrades.
Jake Dawg
November 3, 2021 at 9:22 pm
The future of travel they dry you up and ship you in a box when you reach your destination you are re hydrated
surferguy837
November 3, 2021 at 10:00 pm
Ww.. wwww. Wwww. Wwwwaaaterbears
Mandeep
November 3, 2021 at 10:01 pm
Awesome
Supreme
November 3, 2021 at 10:03 pm
2:41 nice brave wilderness hat
Tenrek
November 3, 2021 at 10:03 pm
WAKE UP MOM NEW TARDIGRADE VIDEO
C G
November 3, 2021 at 10:05 pm
My BABIES!!! 😭👁👄👁
BeryJensen
November 3, 2021 at 10:08 pm
Please don’t hurt them anymore!!!!!!!
Melbo
November 3, 2021 at 10:22 pm
what if we put them at the center of an a bomb?
Robert Erbes
November 3, 2021 at 10:54 pm
Tardigrades finance. Invest in the crypto now before it goes up. Blow it up
D H
November 3, 2021 at 11:19 pm
A small price to pay for salvation.
OneEarthMERGED
November 3, 2021 at 11:34 pm
Don’t be mean to water Bears ): tf
glossaria2
November 3, 2021 at 11:45 pm
Yay, tardigrades! 💚
inkboopus
November 3, 2021 at 11:56 pm
tardigrades are my favorite!! i nearly audibly gasped when i heard thomas boothby i’ve read so many of his papers LMAO
Grace Harper
November 4, 2021 at 12:39 am
These thinks are in the Quantum realm!! Lol I seen these in Ant-man and the Wasp!! 😂✌🏻
Ranjit Pelia
November 4, 2021 at 12:58 am
Has anyone thought about conducting single-cell RNAseq or Spatial Transcriptomics on these Water Bears?
Jiamie Kori
November 4, 2021 at 1:02 am
This is where our tax dollars should go. R&D and science is the future!
Pepop
November 4, 2021 at 1:12 am
They actually die if you put them in 100 degree water for a day, in addition to anther things they aren’t as strong as people hype them to be
Laila Wemusa
November 4, 2021 at 8:02 pm
hellooo doctor hunter 👀
Pearl Of The Ocean
November 4, 2021 at 8:09 pm
Famous scientist T. Fushiguro knows them very well
Ben Khaleq
November 4, 2021 at 8:34 pm
Can’t wait for the tardigrade rights movement
WuffyPuffCouchy
November 4, 2021 at 9:02 pm
what if you put tardigrades in lava?
i just sneezed like a beast send help
November 4, 2021 at 9:08 pm
bro leave them alone
TheManStrato
November 4, 2021 at 9:44 pm
Next up on the test. Tardigrades vs a Hammer
spy fox
November 4, 2021 at 9:47 pm
Pretty sure south Park already covered this
winkloaf
November 4, 2021 at 9:57 pm
“Scientists are looking at how we can stress out tardigrades”
School.
Pou1gie1
November 4, 2021 at 10:44 pm
Dr. Hunter Hines is handsome
MrDuck
November 4, 2021 at 10:46 pm
When he said COVID *clicks off video* just no, no more bias ness
Spider-Man
November 4, 2021 at 10:48 pm
I hate microscopic life. I wish it did not exist.
Isaiah B
November 4, 2021 at 10:54 pm
i wonder if we are tardigrades to something else bigger
Jacobulous
November 4, 2021 at 11:37 pm
but what if the tardigrades don’t want to go to space
Minato monoshi
November 4, 2021 at 11:45 pm
I would like to volunteer to have my dna rewritten full of tardigrade or octopus magic
I promise to use my newfound power for good(mostly)
Taime Melody
November 4, 2021 at 11:51 pm
Powdered blood isn’t really all that far fetched really. I mean we do have dehydrated sea monkeys, that’s not too far off.
I wonder what it might do for stem cell research, or cases like adisons, parkinson’s or Alzheimer.
Paul Crawford
November 5, 2021 at 12:01 am
They are cool little bears cause they are helping humanity and look cute and don’t complain… well at least we don’t think they do… and thats good enough for you if its good enough for me
Christopher Nickels
November 5, 2021 at 12:16 am
Why? To keep that sweet grant money coming in!
Trey
November 5, 2021 at 12:16 am
Owning the rockets for this research is the only cool thing Elon Musk has ever been a part of in his life.
Garrett Scaccia
November 5, 2021 at 12:19 am
You laugh, but these methods will prove invaluable when the tardigrade uprising begins.
Christopher Bentley
November 5, 2021 at 12:53 am
These are fake. Supposedly you can buy them like you would sea-monkeys. When you don’t find one in the kit they will just says “Oh, it died” or some other such non-sense. People are making up fake animals and using cgi to make “videos” of them. That is the truth, deal with it.
Carlos Rodriguez
November 5, 2021 at 12:56 am
The blood thing got me in it. 👍
DH Schumann
November 5, 2021 at 1:00 am
If evolution itself were represented as an organism, Tardigrades are there.
That person Ingénue
November 5, 2021 at 1:06 am
Straight up torturing my little buddies
Cheese
November 5, 2021 at 1:20 am
Im finna inject tardigade cells in my blood to become god.
Stefan Miletic
November 5, 2021 at 1:24 am
south park
Sleepygarnet DSO
November 5, 2021 at 7:55 am
tardigrades : quit playin bruh. just send us to mars right now
Willard Comeaux
November 5, 2021 at 11:07 am
Thought there were called water bears…seen them on animal planet most extreme top 10 a while back.
Poet Satyr
November 5, 2021 at 11:50 am
S E A B E A R
Alexa productions
November 5, 2021 at 12:30 pm
They look like they have the texture of shrimp
Okay bye
All Over The Place
November 5, 2021 at 2:11 pm
This was really inspiring!
It’s a shame that more people aren’t
promulgating good news like this.
Ian Raguse
November 5, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Guess we are Gods after all.
BlueAshes
November 5, 2021 at 3:04 pm
so…we also started as microscopic living thinghs..right?!…. what if this guys are the begining of a super and the next species to dominate the world?
userbosco
November 5, 2021 at 3:05 pm
Do they bleed molecular acid?
Peter Morrison
November 5, 2021 at 3:22 pm
7:17
bioweapons around the corner…. or already here?
Hostey
November 5, 2021 at 3:57 pm
Tardigrades are just built different
Julian H
November 5, 2021 at 4:20 pm
I am 100% expecting a tardigrade uprising in the next 50 years because of our little experiments here. One of these days it’ll evolve into dog-size and we’ll be screwed
WeeWeeJumbo
November 5, 2021 at 4:25 pm
tardy graves
Linda Scoon
November 5, 2021 at 4:44 pm
Poor little things. Leave them alone!
Alexander Harlent
November 5, 2021 at 5:31 pm
This reminds me of godzilla for some reason
Eden S. Lucf
November 5, 2021 at 6:20 pm
If what you’re saying about experiments is true, I wonder how the tardigrades’ DNA would mix with human DNA and how would you test these humans if they had this vaccine? This video has been thought-provoking.
561 Surya Gowtham
November 5, 2021 at 7:18 pm
They’re immortal
sboulderickmam
November 5, 2021 at 8:51 pm
Sounds like a lot of torture and killing of those cute harmless hardy water bears.
Eeezaack
November 5, 2021 at 11:10 pm
South park
Nathan Brown
November 5, 2021 at 11:11 pm
Need a way to navigate the mycellium
jimbobbyrnes
November 5, 2021 at 11:21 pm
imagine being injected with freeze dried blood just because its cheaper than the real blood they use for rich people. that is the dystopian future we seem to be heading too.
Tracy Riverdeep
November 5, 2021 at 11:39 pm
Cool !!! Great video ❤️
Kryptonite
November 5, 2021 at 11:57 pm
yeah… that guy’s real name is actually dr. michael morbius
backtoids
November 6, 2021 at 12:26 am
nooooooooo :/ dont hurt them :((
04 Slobra
November 6, 2021 at 1:23 am
“Very good microbial predators”
*belly full of algae*
Sam S
November 6, 2021 at 4:20 pm
“Tardigrades are microscopic animals so adaptable they can survive in some of the most extreme environments in the universe.”
*Find a way to pay for rent, healthcare, and food on a minimum wage salary, I’ll give the Tardigrade a week.*
JStuff
November 6, 2021 at 4:23 pm
What in the south park
MenTaLisKing
November 6, 2021 at 5:22 pm
Animal abuse, Dr. Fauci would be proud
MenTaLisKing
November 6, 2021 at 5:23 pm
omg they’re even trafficking these abused animals to one another
Sharky & George
November 6, 2021 at 5:44 pm
They are cute? I can only imagine on what this guy jerks too.
Suraj 18M
November 6, 2021 at 5:59 pm
Who else remember the south park episode of evolving tardigrades
Andy
November 6, 2021 at 6:43 pm
Haha… Boothby
Esaye Fishatsyen
November 6, 2021 at 7:03 pm
They survive because their small.
Mr.Fishstick _YT
November 6, 2021 at 11:18 pm
No.
Erica McQueen
November 6, 2021 at 7:07 pm
So, Tardigrades are pretty much indestructible. They can survive the vacuum of space, he pressure of the sea, the cold and heat, yet we keep torturing them.
I’m just saying, we probably shouldn’t make an enemy of them. This kinda sounds like the origin story of a villain. I hope the scientists stop this before the Tardigrades decide to get their revenge.
BlackHeart Gaming
November 6, 2021 at 7:44 pm
Kipo where you at
Kobe Dogg
November 6, 2021 at 8:33 pm
Imagine if there was an outside organism or beings stress testing humans
Goldenoodles
November 6, 2021 at 8:40 pm
Sooooo? Society?
Orion
November 6, 2021 at 9:58 pm
4:56 Ive seen this movie before and it doesn’t end well
Water Monstrosity
November 6, 2021 at 10:11 pm
They’re kinda cute-
Primo Fiamma
November 6, 2021 at 10:32 pm
So Shia Labeouf is a scientist now 🤔
Travis Cartee
November 6, 2021 at 11:00 pm
Tard
Austin W.
November 6, 2021 at 11:06 pm
i read this as stress eating and i have to say tardigrades do not sound very nutricious
Imagine Dweebus
November 6, 2021 at 11:14 pm
Wasn’t this a South Park episode
X94
November 6, 2021 at 11:26 pm
Do they feel pain?
ROM HEADLINER
November 6, 2021 at 11:35 pm
POWDERED BLOOD!!!!
airbound
November 6, 2021 at 11:53 pm
How many have to die before making a philosophers stone
Redd Asset
November 6, 2021 at 11:57 pm
Maybe in 20 years we can make like a type of Organic types of Armor
Angel Gonzalez
November 7, 2021 at 12:09 am
Because they found out the tardigrades are masochists, but they forgot their safe word
matthew mann
November 7, 2021 at 12:13 am
Yeah so radioactive, microscopic, hidden, and stealthed so up there yeah
theverytiredbirb
November 7, 2021 at 12:43 am
They’re so gonna get revenge and kill us billions+ of years out for this
Bubz
November 7, 2021 at 1:15 am
Now who tf is stress testing me??
Nestly Manahan
November 7, 2021 at 1:19 am
I have never heard of these Tardigrades but I’m glad YouTube recommended this vid to me.
Chad Buckle
November 7, 2021 at 6:20 am
Its all fun and games until the Qu treats humans like how we treat tardigrades.
Ralphe Ralphe
November 7, 2021 at 6:46 am
Powdered blood? How about powdered ice cream?!
Jaime Martinez
November 7, 2021 at 7:13 am
Cause they got everything else wrong.
leon koek
November 7, 2021 at 7:18 am
vampire? lolz
Ryoga
November 7, 2021 at 7:26 am
maybe have them give an oral presentation.
Fer F
November 7, 2021 at 7:27 am
面白い。。
Jesse Jamez
November 7, 2021 at 8:14 am
Such cute!
Let’s torture them!
*Dont worries it’s for SCIENCE* 🧬🧫🧪
Mohammed Zaid Sikander
November 7, 2021 at 8:53 am
The scientists are about to make a…..discovery
At D
November 7, 2021 at 12:07 pm
They’re cute, so let’s torture them to see what they can endure. 🙄
retard
November 7, 2021 at 1:29 pm
You eat and kill thousands of them everyday without knowing too though lol
pork steam bun
November 7, 2021 at 1:27 pm
theyre so cuteee
Malaysian Tropikfusion
November 7, 2021 at 2:06 pm
Those are some cute doctors. Just saying.
Yoda
November 7, 2021 at 4:09 pm
As a microbiologist it’s actually it is
Ambuck G
November 7, 2021 at 4:10 pm
I’d be down to try some tardigrade protien
william
November 7, 2021 at 4:17 pm
After watching life I dont like those
Avengers07
November 7, 2021 at 4:20 pm
*Tardigrades are really weird but they help us if we know their secret to live in extreme conditions….*
g g
November 7, 2021 at 4:29 pm
UPDATE! Tarnigrades can now be recognized as people or “interested persons” with legal rights in the U.S. following a federal court order.
Sture Jonsson
November 7, 2021 at 5:20 pm
Hi! I dont like so match stress😖
Syed
November 7, 2021 at 6:47 pm
Stranger Things!
ً
November 7, 2021 at 8:47 pm
Dr. Boothby hahahaha that sounds like a cartoon doctor
Joe Gar
November 7, 2021 at 8:58 pm
I’m calling PETA and tell how you’re stressing water bears.
Aaliq Moin
November 7, 2021 at 9:32 pm
The applications of this project kinda let me down.. I was thinking more like they could help humans swim in lava or liquid nitrogen lol
Daniel G.
November 7, 2021 at 9:39 pm
These are like microscopic real-life metroids.
Itaka4k
November 7, 2021 at 11:20 pm
“Water bear don’t care” -🎶
jack black
November 7, 2021 at 11:40 pm
T H I C C
Frank S.
November 8, 2021 at 2:07 am
Researchers found that tardigrades can consistently beat Joe Biden at checkers.
Angelo
November 8, 2021 at 2:13 am
👹🤜⚫👁🥴⚛
PurpleOtakuBB
November 8, 2021 at 2:59 am
The powered blood seem interesting…
Dariush Silal
November 8, 2021 at 3:05 am
FACINATING
JeSuisPasVacciné
November 8, 2021 at 4:06 am
Dr nozman on es la
Peter Ward
November 8, 2021 at 6:19 am
Time And Relative Dimensions In Gravity?
Ana Medina
November 8, 2021 at 8:17 am
He sounds like a deranged scientist who ends up as a criminal in one of those action movies lolol
Khalid Syaufi
November 8, 2021 at 8:27 am
Where do they got money to do these experiments?
V
November 8, 2021 at 9:02 am
this seems like after experimenting it on humans, scientists are gonna give birth to a Jason Voorhees
rad sad dad
November 8, 2021 at 9:39 am
appa
rad sad dad
November 8, 2021 at 9:42 am
hey that’s microscopic appa
omnpHugs
November 8, 2021 at 11:16 am
South Park
uj im
November 8, 2021 at 11:49 am
Where can i find them?
I want to taste them
Mohamed Ahmed
November 8, 2021 at 1:53 pm
I COULD HAVE SEEN THIS VIDEO I HAD TO DO A PRESENTATION EXPLAINING IF THEY ARE LIVING OR NON-LIVING
(I got a 20/25 btw)
Gio Fool
November 8, 2021 at 3:32 pm
Anyone here knows Captain Tardigrade?
Waqar Haider
November 8, 2021 at 5:56 pm
some tough mfs
terminator3000
November 8, 2021 at 8:22 pm
In germany we call them “bärtierchen” (bear animal, while the suffix “chen” generally mean that something is small) or “wasserbären” (waterbears) because the way they move looks a bit like a bear.
Edit: i just heard that guy call them water bears at 5:10 . So, we are not the only ones calling them bears?
Amur Ika
November 8, 2021 at 11:20 pm
Abusers… one day it will pay back exactly the same way… It will remember…
Saitama Pistola
November 9, 2021 at 12:49 am
Na mora Youtube eu não tenho o mínimo interesse nessa porra para de me mandar
Ray Vasquez
November 9, 2021 at 2:18 am
The nfl would like to know your location
Mark Furst
November 9, 2021 at 2:28 am
The aliens are here
withblue
November 9, 2021 at 3:03 am
theyre like real life slime theyre isekai-ed
Ihtesham Emon
November 9, 2021 at 5:38 am
This is just amazing!
Melissa Pyle
November 9, 2021 at 7:40 am
As resilient as these little guys r, one day they will have their revenge on humans for all their mistreatment..
Midhun Arja
November 9, 2021 at 8:54 am
Marvel found the origin of its next superhero
KRUSHNA CHAUGULE
November 9, 2021 at 10:14 am
Lol
SAURAV KUMAR
November 9, 2021 at 10:58 am
It’s not an animal it’s a microbe
Abhishek Bhowmik
November 9, 2021 at 1:37 pm
Me, a gamer and Kojima fan: Hey look, a cryptobiote
じゃま
November 9, 2021 at 2:19 pm
poor tartigrades😂
Unfazed Render
November 9, 2021 at 3:37 pm
animal abuse
Mobile Notherwise
November 9, 2021 at 4:54 pm
nuke it
Delirious Mysterium
November 9, 2021 at 5:03 pm
So this is what joe rogan was talking about with GAIN OF FUNCTION
Master Cheif
November 9, 2021 at 8:35 pm
Why is south park always ahead of the curve… They have thier finger on the pulse of EVERYTHING
I agree with you
November 9, 2021 at 8:35 pm
Y’all gonna regret this. As if you haven’t seen enough sci fi movies already.
Mr. DIPERSON GHISING
November 10, 2021 at 4:02 am
But can it survive a Heartbreak?
VAIBHAV RAJ
November 10, 2021 at 7:16 am
I know them because of antman and the wasp quantam journey.
Tardigrades have super abilities.
VibrantVirtue
November 10, 2021 at 9:21 am
Boop
Joel InThePalace
November 10, 2021 at 10:31 am
Next:
How zombie apocalypse started.
Shaurya Bansod
November 10, 2021 at 11:32 am
7:24….
Aww it would be so cute to create a bacteria with properties of a virus!
It was a joke! Dead af
R.S.
November 11, 2021 at 1:23 am
2:26 is this the same place Ryan Trahan stayed?
someone give me a name
November 11, 2021 at 1:24 am
Funny how some people here are feeling pity for predator bacteria XD
Abhishek Kumar
November 11, 2021 at 8:11 am
These are some itch causing b@s***ds, I have experienced it
Utkarsh Gaikwad
November 11, 2021 at 8:28 am
If tardigrades survive in space aren’t us sending them may someday in future lead to them evolving into aliens which may be infact created by humans?
Axe M.
November 11, 2021 at 12:49 pm
Dale Stayne
EndlessDrive
November 11, 2021 at 7:52 pm
After watching this, I now want a tardigrade plushie to clip on the side of my monitor lol
Bit Rage
November 11, 2021 at 11:46 pm
THATS IT!!! Im starting a Tardigrade abuse campaign!!! #SaveTheLilBears
Yozume
November 12, 2021 at 2:55 am
Why can’t we just take the immunity of tardigrades so we could be immune too?
Michael Michael's
November 12, 2021 at 3:41 am
Covid will kill it! I’ll mandate it…..
Nauman Sayyad
November 12, 2021 at 6:20 am
Humans:Woww tardigrades are so cute
Also humans:shoot them out of a gun
Meanwhile tardigrades:Why you bully me?
Deadhead Wannabe
November 13, 2021 at 6:38 am
Sad they killed them….my new favorite animal
Deadhead Wannabe
November 13, 2021 at 6:39 am
I love their feet
Relaxing.sleep47
November 13, 2021 at 10:51 am
I am poor.
MrWil Vlogs
November 13, 2021 at 11:44 am
Amazing micro work..i hope i can see in my own microscope. But need to upgrade mine first.
dear Oo
November 13, 2021 at 3:36 pm
I am here thinking how they taste is it possible to eat them?
freesouljah
November 13, 2021 at 5:48 pm
Scientists: Let’s make powdered blood
Vampires: Let’s snort a few lines
Animals_Matter2
November 13, 2021 at 8:09 pm
how do you expect to go to another planet when society cant even take care of earth… ???? doesnt make sense …
LightBringer 307
November 14, 2021 at 6:08 am
1:34
Does that A stand out to anybody else? It seems out of place to me somehow and I don’t know why.
Xiom Greninja
November 15, 2021 at 11:45 am
Cute?
Danny Archer
November 16, 2021 at 3:14 am
NASA: We’ve found life on Mars!!
Everyone: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!
NASA: They’re tardigrades.
Everyone:
Omaer 1
November 18, 2021 at 6:13 pm
Very Nice Bro! Get Good. MashAllah(SWT).
Brandon Rondelli
November 19, 2021 at 12:56 pm
Imagine all your micro biome become water bear grade inhabitants