How to Tell Time with an Amino Acid Clock

Posted by michael on Wednesday August 14, 2002 @07:35AM from the deep-time dept.

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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Holy Mathematics! by jmoriarty · 2002-08-14 10:44 · Score: 3, Funny

So if Disney's cells can last for 30,000 years, and he can make it to 30,000 A.D., then that would mean he died in 0 A.D.

If that is the case, then maybe Disney's biggest secret isn't cryogenics but rather the secret identity he had running around Israel back in the day. You know, I've met people who worship Disney... this is all starting to make sense now. Maybe him coming back from the dead isn't such a long shot after all...