(Puts down the journal) "You built a five-hundred-dollar climate-controlled terrarium for water bears?"
"Yeah. But he’s our idiot."
(Panic rising) "You wouldn’t."
Sheldon approaches Penny for a "human trial." Penny, now working as a pharmaceutical rep, mistakenly thinks Sheldon is asking about a new allergy medication.
"You want to put me in a sugar solution and spin me until I look like a raisin?" La Teoria del Big Bang 9x7
"It also opens beer bottles. And it has a laser. A very small, mostly decorative laser."
"You want to kill Leonard."
Sheldon has discovered that a specific strain of tardigrades, when exposed to a precise frequency of electromagnetic radiation, can enter a state of "suspended animation so profound, it reverses cellular entropy." He believes he has found the key to low-cost human cryogenics.