Water bears - space colonisation hypothesis thread

They would all starve to death (although extremely slowly because they're water bears) because they would have nothing to eat except each other.

You need some stuff for them to eat first, like algae or moss

The base of your ecosystem NEEDS to be something that can get energy out of the environment through photosynthesis, heat, or radioactive materials. Water bears are eaters, they don't produce energy

>>9123401
You totally located a gap in my half-baked theory, thanks Anon. Now I just gotta go search for some resiliant water flora

For something to survive, there needs to be

food
water
shelter
habitable temperature

remove any one of these and it will die

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>>9123401
>radioactive materials
I was under the impression, that all energy and all food inevitably stems from the sun's rays if you trace its path in the food chain back to the start.
Can you actually get biological energy from radioactive materials? Are there any animals that actually do that here on earth?

>>9123483
Why food and water? Is it impossible for life to exist by getting its energy solely from the sun?

>>9123502
Chemosynthesis, The short answer is yes, in fact melanin converts radiation into energy. Not enough to be useful to humans or even blacks, but there's a few microorganisms that use melanin instead of chlorophyll and have been found in radioactive areas or reactors.