Dried-out tardigrades have survived exposure to space in low Earth orbit and pressures about six times those of the deepest ocean trench, and some revived after more than 30 years frozen in moss.
Notes on verification
Confirmed through ESA space experiments and extensive peer-reviewed research on extremophile organisms
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