100 Years of Radio: Part 2
b'One of the most robust creatures on the planet is the cockroach\\u2026gross things, but you have to admire ability to survive\\u2026I mean, they\\u2019ve been around for 280 million years\\u2026\\n\\nNot only can a cockroach hold its breath for 40 minutes, live for a month without food and run up to three miles per hour, but one can live for up to a week without its head\\u2026I repeat: without its head!\\n\\nImpressive, but there\\u2019s a tiny creature known as a tartigrade that\\u2019s even toucher\\u2026one of these things are about half millimeter long, but they\\u2019re almost impossible to kill\\u2026\\n\\nThey can survive temperatures of -273.15 Celsius, which is absolute zero\\u2026you physically can\\u2019t get colder than this\\u2026that means a tartidgrade can survive in the vacuum of space and will get back to business if you warm them up\\u2026\\n\\nAt the under end of the spectrum, a tardigrade can handle pressures six times greater than what you find at the bottom of the ocean\\u2026that\\u2019s about 30,000 time more than the atmosphere around us\\u2026\\n\\nYou can even boil one of these little buggers in alcohol and it\\u2019ll be fine\\u2026and if things dry up, a tardigrade will shrivel into a little ball and can stay that way without water for years\\u2026\\n\\nThis is the only creature to survive all five of earth\\u2019s great extinctions\\u2026\\n\\nSo why am I going on about tardigrades and cockroaches?...because we\\u2019re about to get into more of the history of the longest-living electronic media we\\u2019ve ever known\\u2026many attempts have been made it kill it, but yet it\\u2019s still here\\u2026this is 100 years of radio, part two\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'