How to Tell Time with an Amino Acid Clock

An anonymous reader writes "Jet Propulsion Lab and Russian Academy of Sciences are reporting today that when held in suspended animation, permafrost bacteria can continue key molecular maintenance for at least 30,000 years. Since Martian permafrost is the most likely place to identify such still-living bacteria in the novel state of suspended animation, this new deep-freeze clock has considerable research promise as a biomarker. If the urban legend of Walt Disney being cryogenically-preserved under Disneyland's Pirates of Penzance amusement ride were true [it isn't], then his body would continue to repair radiation cell damage until, say, the year 30,000 A.D."

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[hackwrench]

If his body were composed of bacterial cells, which it isn't.