My Buddy the Tardigrade

Wrinkled old knapsack with a faucet spray face 

You frolic in the vacuum of outer space

Or dance in hyper-boiling heat

Go for decades without water or meat

Withstand the press of oceans deep

And can in killer radiation sleep

It seems if you’re a Tardigrade

In those respects you’ve got it made.

c. J.S.Manista 2013

(The link below explains just what kind of extremophile this is.)
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130306.html