Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 03, 2023

Can one convert to tardigradism?

Here’s a negative for you, there won’t be anybody else around for you to cheer up.

… with a good fire, you can be crispy bacon.

Apparently the only way to kill a tardigrade is to expose them to very hot water for an extended period of time, ie boil em!

And none of those can cause easy deaths.

I’m more worried about the actor’s strike than a meteor strike.

Great news! One of those concerns doesn’t exist.

Until an asteroid falls on me, I’m ahead of the game.

Typo today. Good. Now we’re brothers.

All that’ll be left is Planet of the Tardigrades?

Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals.

Never take survival tips from someone like that.

So it’s all about you, is it, Pig?

Today you made me ‘look up’ what these things are – thank you, made for an interesting read.

We all die in the end, Mr. Tardigrade.

Cockroaches, too.

When disaster strikes, don’t forget the lesson we learned from the late Pee Wee Herman… don’t try to hide in the basement of the Alamo.

Thanks to some idiot israelis who put Tardigrades on the Baresheet lander in 2019, which then crashed, Tardigrades my now be released onto the lunar surface.

Tardigrades make lousy supporters.

’ The Doctor Is [IN] ’ …

" That’ll be 5 cents!." … :)

Well, if you befriend a tardigrade (which is apparently possible in the Pearls universe) he or she can remember you after you die, and think of you often, and keep your memory alive. So that’s surely something.

Maybe we should all become tardigrades.

Ignore all the problems and focus on casting aspersion on the opposite political group. That seems to be the way our government works now.

Water Bear. This one is about 1000 times larger than its relatives.

We tardigrades need something to eat.

I loved today’s strip!!

I thought cockroaches would inherit the earth, according to all those 50s sci fi movies

And the roaches……

Man…sure wish I was a tardigrade… :-(

What if the earth gets consumed by a black hole? Can a Tardigrade survive that?

Yeah, Pig! Focus on the positive. Focus on the tardigrade!

You are but bacon futures on the hoof….

Tardigrades, often called water bears or moss piglets, are near-microscopic aquatic animals with plump, segmented bodies and flattened heads. They have eight legs, each tipped with four to eight claws or digits, and somewhat resemble the hookah-smoking caterpillar from “Alice in Wonderland.” Though tardigrades are disarmingly cute, they are also nearly indestructible and can even survive in outer space.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/health-science/meet-the-tardigrade-the-animal-that-will-outlive-us-all/2017/07/14/4b921e54-68ae-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_video.html