What's their endgame?

Extinction.

>>2340944
To be the most strongest micro-organism in existence.

>>2340944
My heart

Probably get an illness from white people because they dont wipe thier ass..

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>>2340944
>What's their endgame?

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>>2340944
To achieve perfection

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>>2340944
Tardigrades might actually compete with humans. Think about it. They're essentially indestructible, and they might be able to evolve like humans did.

How fucking scary would that be?

>Protozoa bow to Tardigrades
>In contact with chordata
>Possess psychic-like abilities
>Control the micro-animal kingdom with an iron but fair claw
>Own oceans & lakes globally
>Direct descendants of the first organic enzymes
>Will bankroll the first cities on Mars (Tardigradia will be be the first city)
>Own 99% of DNA editing research facilities on Earth
>First designer babies will in all likelihood be Tardigrade babies
>Tardigrades are said to have 215+ IQ, such intelligence on Earth has only existed deep in Tibetan monasteries & Area 51
>Ancient Indian scriptures tell of a microspcopic angel who will descend upon Earth and will bring an era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological progress with him
>They own Nanobot R&D labs around the world
>You likely have Tardigrades inside you right now
>The Tardigrades are in regular communication with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, forwarding the word of God to the Orthodox Church. Who do you think set up the meeting between the pope & the Orthodox high command (First meeting between the two organisations in over 1000 years) and arranged the Orthodox leader's first trip to Antarctica in history literally a few days later to the Tardigrade bunker in Wilkes land?
>They learned fluent French in under a week
>Nation states entrust their gold reserves with the Tardigrades. There's no gold in Ft. Knox, only Ft. Tardigrade
>The Tardigrades are about 7 decades old, from the space-time reference point of the base human currently accepted by our society
>In reality, they are timeless beings existing in all points of time and space from the big bang to the end of the universe. We don't know their ultimate plans yet. We hope they're benevolent beings.

>>2341532
No. Humans "evolved" because they're physically weak. We can't do shit with our bodies and that's why we invent tools for that. A tardigrade, a nearly perfect organism, wouldn't need to use it's mind to invent tools and mentally develop. This is why if magic were real humans would still be in dark ages.

>>2341554
so iz you be sayin'
Da mind a tool?

>>2341555
Nigga I'm sayin you're a tool

I've always found it interesting that the political imagination of humans is limited to what they can communicate with each other.

Or, perhaps I am crazy, or so it would be said, if I suggested we have been at war with many species in our food chain, or for the use of land.

Likewise, we ourselves bear attack constantly by creatures only our medicine can repel. Three quarters of the surface of our very planet is a domain we can barely traverse or enter, much more dwell in, quite populated by others.

And if you go by occupation and use of land, complete with constant air raids, air patrols, infiltrations, constant forays of opportunistic reconnaissance followed by endless pillaging, would it really be rational to say humans rule the world while constantly repelling encroachment by insects, outnumbering us and perpetually thwarting us at every turn, from defending our food and homes to escaping attacks on our very bodies?

Predation, living space, and so much conflict in nature resulting in death and exploitation is very relevant in the lives of those it effects. Humans seem to narrowly think of conflict only among each other as political because we define political as the arrangement of influences to effect an outcome by negotiation.

And yet, there are endless outcomes to which we've adapted as the assumed state of the world, like when we had no medicine and just assumed illness and death were inescapable consequences of certain encounters.

Likewise, we exert force on other species of life. In the food chain, the outcome is always is always assumed. We view the ecosystem as static. When there is change, we view it as a disruption, our assumption of outcomes is challenged.

>that theory that tardigrades are aliens

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>>2341583

... Interestingly, we view ourselves as the biggest disruptor of our own static view, while the most disruptive events preceded our existence in a perception of static systems that we ourselves concocted. When theres no way to assign the influence to ourselves, some call it an 'act of god'. We somehow always manage to place ourselves in the center of our own view of our environment.

I just think its an interesting irony, and perhaps nothing more, that in all this natural tension in survival among so many in an age where we can map genomes and catalog geologic and atmospheric changes, we constantly fight to adapt more of the world to us, and us to it, yet struggle to accept that things adapt to us as well, or to each other. We assume only intent matters, and that if something adapts based only on the numbers of the universe rolling the dice on genetic variants, then we can dismiss it, despite our own intelligence being the product of the very same.

It may seem convoluted, looking inward on the human ego as it tries to simultaneously incorporate and exclude its role in nature. Nor is it original; there have been suggestions that it is in fact plant-kind that ranches us.

But if any of this is valid, it makes you wonder about these political relationships between species. If our species annihilates itself in war, its the scavengers who benefit. It could then be suggested that the invention of the nuclear bomb actually heralded the victory of the cockroach, and evolution towards the intelligence needed for sophisticated engineering was farmed out to our species in the same way we farm labor out of other animals.

I suppose only time will tell.

>>2341548
Nice

>>2340944
>What's their endgame?

Objective: Survive

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>>2341595
I don't think plants are our masters. It's probably more like the cyanobaceteria that grows all over our concrete and limestone monuments, buildings, pavements, and sidewalks. They convinced us to clear out all of the trees, all of the lesser vegetation, all of the higher order foragers and all of the burrowing arthropods so they could recolonize.

So they could make the Earth as it was during the Precambrian again, when no higher form of life stalked across the barren plains and naught but algae mats served as the substrate for the first multicellular life forms. Some people say it is the anaerobes that desire to revert Earth back to a prehistoric state, I say it is the aerobes who desire Earth's reversion to prior eras. They flourish after every extinction event and thrive when higher species are wiped out.

We even have difficulty wiping them out, as the great algae blooms that have usurped much of our coastlines are testamont. In fact, we feed them. Our fertilizers, our run off, our sewage waste and our industrial pollution provides them the fuel they need to usurp other lifeforms en masse. We are even so foolish as to consume them so they can pollute our bodies with their cyanotoxins.

Our homes, our roofs, our concrete foundations - all habitats for them. Our shady yards and the trees we plant to attract the birds crowd out grasses and give them more habitat in our midst. How many of you have green growth in your yards as I type? How many of you are subject to their colonization? How many of you have to deal with their overgrowth every single week in your closed aquariums, desperately trying to protect the higher plants and metazoans you captivity rear?

Above man, above bugs, above trees, and above all else - cyanobacteria are the masters of this Earth. And they've managed to do it all without us realizing it.

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>>2341823

Its a valid theory. We tend to insist on visible intent instead of outcome, overlooking that life itself often functions without intent. None of us, for example, intended to evolve to this intelligence.

But others argue that life itself is random, and order and patterns are what we abstractly group as special phenomenon.

Its a bit of a paradox, to think life evolved by random molecular interactions, but that somehow an order that repeats is distinct as life while ignoring dead-end permutation, from failed peptides to congenital failure of a genotype. Death from such failures, or simply interruption, is distinctly life also. Its sort of optics. If intent emerges from random permutations, then of what relevance is the intent?

The other alternatives, if consistency is needed, is that there is intent in everything. Or, there is none, not even in us, in which case either defining life as a distinctly categorizable pattern is pointless and ultimately arbitrary, or else we have no claim to sentience ourselves, which puts us on par with plants ourselves.

Its all just theory of course; idk if there will ever be a 'grand unification' theory of life and intent in a random universe. But it does move on to think about the universe in new perspectives, and our role in it.

>>2340944
your mom *farts*

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>>2340944
Enslave, assimilate, and exploit all other sentient life for their own purposes, mostly for amoral scientific advancement.

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>>2340944
Their game is.... ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER

>>2340944
Panspermia