Re:Tardigrades turn into glass when they dry out
by stefantalpalaru on Saturday December 26, 2015 @05:21AM
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The title reads like a Radio Yerevan joke: they don't "turn into", they are "covered in", and it's not glass, it's protein.
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Re:Tardigrades turn into glass when they dry out
by Someone on Saturday December 26, 2015 @06:32AM
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It's not glass, but it may be a glass. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass:
"Scientifically, the term "glass" is often defined in a broader sense, encompassing every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (that is, amorphous) structure at the atomic scale and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state."
Polystyrene is a glass, for example (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_transition)
Re:Tardigrades turn into glass when they dry out
by SeanDav on Saturday December 26, 2015 @05:56AM
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One does not always have to take titles so literally. I expect there to be a bit of "sizzle" not "steak" in a title because it has to catch your eye and compete with other titles.
I had a chuckle yesterday because there was an HN News story that was briefly on the front page with a title something like "95 year old smashes world 200m record". About 80% of the posts complained that the title was misleading because it was the world record for his age group. I would have thought that was self evident - did they really expect a 95 year old to break the open WR for 200m?