They put the tardigrades onto surfaces cooled to below -226 degrees Fahrenheit (-143 degrees Celsius), and covered the tiny creatures in anisole, an anise-scented organic compound.
If it’s not enough that they froze them, then they covered them in licorice flavor and tattooed them with it. I literally didn’t realize you could torture something so.
The boon here isn’t that it’ll allow them to bring a shoddy product to market. The boon is they’ll be able to continue milking investors by hiding the fact that they have no marketable product in this space while they keep selling off their stock.
FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF REALITY Re: Non-Existent Business Entity Status: METAPHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE Cosmic Authority: LAWS OF PHYSICS
THE UNIVERSE DECLARES:
This business is now:
- PHYSICALLY Non-existent
- QUANTUM STATE: Collapsed […
That is much much funnier. It’s willing the entire simulation out of existence. It’s attempting magic. That’s existential dread.
The stress is from cooling the filament and then winding it around the spool. Lots of reasons why the plastic would weaken that stress might suddenly give way, but most of them involve time. If it wasn’t completely cooled internally before being spooled, that would dramatically increase the stress (think Prince Rupert’s drop).