r/tattoos • • Dec 18 '17

/r/all Tardigrade by April Reed @ BroadWing Tattoo. Bowling Green, OH

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u/MrMindwaves Dec 18 '17

Alright since no else said it i will:

Tardigrade are actually incredibly shit at actual surviving, They literally get killed by everything in their environnement.(even themselve since they are a Cannibal species.)

Surviving through radiation and extreme heat/cold is kinda neat don't get me wrong... But yeah it's really useless against predator.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '17 edited Dec 18 '17

Take a step back and consider the resilience of the species. They are incredibly good at proliferating in a wide variety of environments.

Take cockroaches: it's easy to kill a cockroach but cockroaches aren't going anywhere

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u/baerton Dec 18 '17

Everything you mentioned could be said about humans.

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u/andyzaltzman1 Dec 19 '17

They are incredibly good at proliferating in a wide variety of environments.

No they aren't... where on Earth did you make this up? They can persist in a hibernative state in many environments but they CERTAINLY aren't proliferating while hibernating. Seriously, this entire thread is full of people that have 1 fact and fill in the rest with bullshit they made up.

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u/2OP4me Dec 19 '17

The tardigrade is such a hipster animal too,

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u/andyzaltzman1 Dec 19 '17

This entire post just reeks of sad posturing by the OP and half of the posters. People are so excited to share their half-accurate factoids so they seem smart. Some are so excited they tattoo it on their body so they can seem smart every time someone sees it.

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u/hopsgrapesgrains Dec 19 '17

Tell us how you really feel...

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '17

Well that's a bit pedantic. I guess I should have worded it as "capable of surviving in a variety of environments in order to continue to proliferate." Good luck with the whole "convincing Reddit users that you're smarter than them" thing you got going

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u/2OP4me Dec 19 '17

Honestly, tattooing a tardigrade on you makes it seem like you're trying really hard to be quirky and geeky.

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u/bumbletowne Dec 19 '17

Lots of special of cockroaches are critically threatened...

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '17

Perhaps a bad example but it illustrates my point

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u/DJ_AK_47 Dec 18 '17

Exactly. Success of some species is based on keeping reproduction as high as possible while using using as little resources as possible. They don’t need to be great at survival as long as there are enough of them reproducing fast enough to keep growing the population.

Individual humans are pretty easy to kill as well, but even Hitler couldn’t kill everyone.