I For One Welcome Our New Tardigrade Overlords
Tardigrades can survive being frozen solid, being boiled, being poisoned, being irradiated, and floating in the vacuum of space. They are obviously the toughest animal on the planet. We should send a whole ship full of these little guys to Mars and Europa.
Now this guy has too much time on his hands
http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/research/Final/sresch02/middleton/