Tardigrades are so COOL
Such cute little buggers too. Amazes me that something so "complex" can put itself into space-proof suspended animation for years at a time. I do wonder if we couldn't emulate such biostasis - if so we could open the door to interstellar travel by flesh-and-bone humans, albeit as biostatic "mummies" waiting to be rehydrated.
Less extreme, and more spin-off value, would be induced hypometabolism for medical purposes, eventually allowing short periods of suspension while organs are regrown or some such. That would benefit everyone on Earth and off.