Water Bears Mooted as First Interstellar Astronauts

[samizdis]

https://www.universetoday.com/153193/will-water-bears-be-the-first-interstellar-astronauts/

[WalterGR]

Article title: Will Water Bears be the First Interstellar Astronauts?

moot - verb - To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot#English

[dragonwriter → WalterGR]

moot is essebntially an auto-antonym, since it also means (from the same source) “make or declare irrelevant”, so it can mean either to introduce an issue for discussion or to make/declare it irrelevant for discussion.