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Bats v Flies

The Infinite Monkey Cage

CHAPTER

Soy've Got a Runney Through That?

They can survive seven thousand grays. They go through what's called cryptobiosis, theythey, it's not like a hybernation. So essentially, you say they can survive for, well, almost ever in this state. One reason is because all the water comes out. And i suppose that’s why you can freeze them. But as for the the question is, why? Because obviously, from an evolutionary perspective, a is it just a by product of the fact that these things can be frozen at normal temperatures. It happens that you can take the thing down minus hundred 70. You would think that the proteins and structure of the thing would break down. Ies

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