Simultaneously cute and terrifying. 
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A microscopic water bear (tardigrade) appears to scratch its back. Or is it just stuck to the circle?
(Captured by @RebeccaArielS @HarvardMSI Microscopy Workshop)pic.twitter.com/gKngfmnNqQ
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It's a basal form of ugly-cute.
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Land bear do it too, or is it just stuck to the tree?pic.twitter.com/cyLROFwiDS
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look at its stupid little legs, I love it
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Look for the bare necessities
the water bear necessities
Forget about your index or your size
I mean the bare necessities
the tardigrade necessities
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"Appears", yes. As they don't have a nervous system and therfore don't need to scratch their "back" because they simply don't feel.
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they do have a nervous system, along with a brain.pic.twitter.com/9ZRcHcAoeZ
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Tardigrades look like if HP Lovecraft invented the concept of adorable obesity
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The more I read about these guys, the more I am amazed. They are so resilient, can even survive global extinction events and go for 30 years without food or water! I wonder how intelligent they are though, since they're so small.
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Yeah they are amazing. I am facinatined by life forms that challenge our understanding of intelligence. Such as these guys and even plants. We can only understand things when we anthropomorphize it, and that is not an objective perspective.
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P.S. This post is a rewording of my original “
#tardigrade back scratch” tweet from 2018. (I created the animation.)#Subtweethttps://twitter.com/socialmicrobes/status/954213407795892226?s=21 …
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I'd be more inclined to think of physical forces such as surface adhesion before giving tardigrades itchy backs.
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especially since the circle seems to be an air bubble (you can see the deformation), surface tension makes a lot of sense
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I love that these little guys are permeating pop culture. Hell, we got to see them in a Marvel movie!
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Ant Man and the Tardigrade King
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Should be how Ant Man ends, dying to a bug bear.
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Haha, wow Tardigrades are ALREADY in a marvel movie. Ant Man and The Wasppic.twitter.com/yfqeyWUH4D
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