After a couple of days on #Mastodon I’m very impressed & excited to be part of this growing community! #mastodonmigration

My only humble suggestion is that it needs more tardigrades aka "water bears."

Tardigrades have survived every mass #extinction on Earth since they evolved about a 1/2 billion years ago. There are ~1,300 known species. And millions of years from now, they won’t even notice we’re gone. #SharedPlanet

@Sheril

True story—

My artist hubby and I made tardigrade cakes for our kid’s high school graduation

@jentaub This alone made joining Mastodon worth it ☺️

@Sheril

I just looked at your bio and saw a Michigan connection. That’s where I grew up. Still consider it home.

@jentaub @Sheril …another Michigander here 👋
@eshornock @jentaub @Sheril Me too! Just moved back and am tempted to make a tardigrade cake of my own .
@jentaub A great place to live! Excellent political leadership the last few years too. I went to college in MA which I miss too.
@Sheril @jentaub I had to go look up tardigrades bc had no idea what they are- came across this weird bit of research. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tardigrade-survival-shot-gun-crash-landing-planet
Even tardigrades can’t always survive being shot out of a gun | Science News

A recent experiment put tardigrades’ indestructibility to the test by firing the critters at speeds up to 1,000 meters per second.

Science News

@Sheril

By coincidence, I live in MA now

@Sheril @jentaub Can I has some cake please? :)
@Sheril @jentaub Mail the cake to ‘That Guy With Grubby Hands, Saint Paul, Minnesota’.