# Just Add Water

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-add-water/464130>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 18, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-add-water/464130 "2008-09-18T12:12:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-add-water/464130/21 "2008-09-20T04:24:56Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> There’s a microscopic critter, don’t recall the name, which can lose 99+% of it’s water, and go into a sort of suspended animation. It can then blow around like dust, until perhaps years later it lands somewhere damp and it absorbs the water and reanimates.

> **[Tardigrade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade)**
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> Tardigrades (/ˈtɑːrdɪɡreɪdz/ ⓘ), also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär 'little water bear'. In 1776, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada, which means 'slow walkers'.
> Tardigrades live in diverse regions of Earth's biosphere – mountaintops, the deep sea, tropical rainforests, and the Anta...

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-add-water/464130/22 "2008-09-20T04:39:05Z")

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…to a _fizzie_ and get a delicious(?), effervescent beverage!

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-add-water/464130/23 "2008-09-20T09:01:33Z")

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> [@beowulff](#):
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> [Tardigrade - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade)

Thanks !

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**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-add-water/464130/24 "2008-09-20T10:43:15Z")

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… to the air intake on your carburetor

and get a massive performance boost to your engine - just $99.95  
we will not be held liable for any damage or warranty invalidation that may occur as a result of injecting water into the motor of your car. YMMV.  
:smack:

Si

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-add-water/464130/25 "2008-09-20T11:01:15Z")

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> [@Rilchiam](#):
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> …to flour and get glue.

Then add eggs and sugar, and you get cake - where does the glue go?? 😕

(Stolen from Rita Rudner)

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