A view of the city of Munich - slightly different (I)
Virtually all of our readers are probably aware of the fact that our e-zine
isn't intended to be scientific - even though you can trust that every reported
tardigrade fact is absolutely true. On the most obvious level our tiny magazine is dealing with the biology
of tardigrades. But behind this biology we want to point out that looking at the tardigrades
is like looking into a mirror. Thinking about our existence on earth, how we are fitting
into the scenery and finding out that our environment might be even more bizarre
than we had been thinking before looking through our microscope (besides: just enjoy life as long as you can
and do not hinder others from doing so!).
The more sober scientists among you might critizise that we were "humanizing" those tardigrades.
And yes, that is exactly what we are going to do in this issue of the Water Bear web base:
humanize the tardigrades in order to learn about our own position on earth.
In this and the following issues we will concentrate on the urban area,
as seen from the perspective of a tardigrade. This is pure fiction of course,
not biology. Just have a look:
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