Warp wrote:
>   I'd say: By far.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

Somehow, saying that that's "hardcore" seems wholely inadaquat.

Still, when you're that tiny, forces like gravity and inertia no longer 
apply to you. (Or rather, they are insignificant compared to viscosity.) 
I would imagine that with a surface area of just 3.1 mm^2 enclosing a 
volume of only 0.5 mm^3, differences in external pressure are pretty 
unimportant to you. Which would mean that differences in temperature 
probably aren't important to your physical structure. (Chemical 
structure is of course another matter...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_121


*survive*, but *live*. It seems Tardigrades go into stasis at high 
temperatures.)

Yeah, small is rugged. Still, there _is_ that frog that survives being 
frozen solid each year...

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