[HN Gopher] Tardigrades walk like insects 500k times their size
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       Tardigrades walk like insects 500k times their size
        
       Author : _Microft
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2021-12-28 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | sebow wrote:
        
       | 1024core wrote:
       | > "Other times, they'd see something they like and run towards
       | it."
       | 
       | Can tardigrades really "see" in the traditional sense? Can they
       | make out shapes, etc.? Do they have photo receptors plugged into
       | the brain?
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Recent and related:
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       |  _Tardigrades Walk_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28380188 - Sept 2021 (29
       | comments)
       | 
       |  _Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29580686 - Dec 2021 (111
       | comments)
        
         | hetspookjee wrote:
         | Thank you for linking those threads as the latter one was a
         | thrill to read: both the thread as the paper.
        
       | tiahura wrote:
       | "The team was surprised to note that the water bears did not have
       | distinct gaits for each speed, like horses as they transition
       | from a walk to a gallop. Rather, their locomotion closely
       | resembled that of insects and arthropods, scurrying along faster
       | and faster with no change to the basic step pattern."
       | 
       | So they expected them to walk like horses and not insects? That
       | seems odd.
        
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