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>> Still, when you're that tiny, forces like gravity and inertia no longer
>> apply to you.
>
> But things like dehydration and radiation (UV or ionizing) do.
Indeed.
> Also,
> I think vacuum and thousands of times normal atmospheric pressure do also
> have a significant effect regardless of your size.
It's been my observation that small objects tend to be inherantly
stronger. But who knows, perhaps you're right.
> It's a popular thought experiment which animals would survive a nuclear
> holocaust. It would probably be safe to say that tardigrades wouldn't even
> *notice* such a thing and just mind their business as usual.
Given that some of them evidently live deeply burried in the sediments
at the very bottom of the deepest parts of the ocean... yeah, they're
really *not* going to care.
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