Fact: The moon has been contaminated with life.

Deboonker Claim: The tardigrades from the Beresheet lander all died.[1]

This is correct, the thousands[2] of tardigrades are likely to have perished, given that they experienced impact shock up to 5GPa~ and can only survive barely above 1GPa~[1]

However, each tardigrade's body is a biome, full of microbiotic life.[3]

It is a safe assessment to assume that some of the bacteria present in the bodies of the tardigrades may be alive, given that bacteria have been shown to be able to survive shock impacts of up to 78GPa.[4]



1. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2020.2405

2. https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/

3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29333583/#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20the%20tardigrade%20microbiome%20appears,the%20order%20Rickettsiales%20were%20identified.

4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5041010/#:~:text=Increased%20survival%20rates%20are%20recorded,%CE%BCs%20%5B46%2C47%5D.



Thoughts? Counters?

I have no comprehensive list of the microbiota alive within tardigrades, so there is further explanation needed.

Anyone looking for a high school level or undergrad level research project involving this can do the following:

Isolate and categorize the microbiotic life that is present in the type of tardigrades that were sent to the moon.

Isolate and test the shock impact survival rates and statistics involved for each of those categorized bacteria.

Determine how long any of those bacteria which can survive impact values higher than experienced during the beresheet crash are able to survive, with only the corpse of a dead tardigrade as their available energy source.



How long do our little bacterial astronauts have? Are they dead by now? Still alive? How much longer will they be there?

Could we perform a rescue mission for our little bacterial friends, given that we have upcoming missions to the surface?

>>15366608 (OP)

I accept that microbes in the tards, or even the tards themselves, might be "alive", in a sort of suspended animation from which they could be awaken if their environmental conditions became hospitable to them.



But they're definitely not reproducing up there. They don't have anything to eat or drink.

The bacteria have a large resource pool relative to their size.



The body of the tardigrade they inhabit is like a mini bio ship for them.

the tardies would be dehydrated.

Certainly, to a point.

>>15366608 (OP)

Moon hasn't been "contaminated" by life just because there's live material that was left there, they left the astronaut poop bags in there for instance which definitely has some "alive" material in it such as bacteria but that's not the same as the moon being contaminated.

You think the poop is going to stay in the poop bags forever?

"Poopin' on da moon" by The Poolice



Big shits are what you take

Poopin' on da moon

I hope ma ass dont break

Poopin' on da moon.

>poop on the moon begins evolving

>after billions of years poop aliens from the moon will invade earth 

Maybe we evolved from alien poop. Think about it.

>don't land so 

>don't land so 

>don't land so close to pee

They will become bone dry and their cells will also get destroyed by radiation
