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3000-year-old Microbes

Posted by michael on from the stuff-you-found-at-the-back-of-your-refrigerator dept.

marga writes "Science Daily is running a story about a group of researchers the have been drilling into the Antarctic ice and discovered 3000-year-old microbes that could come back to life if put in contact with liquid water. And not only that, they claim that they have uncovered a whole new ecological system lying beneath the Lake Vida."

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  1. Re:Worried by Dannon · · Score: 4, Funny
    Nah, this is more like Gremlins. Three rules:

    1. Don't get them wet,
    2. Don't expose them to sunlight, and
    3. Don't ever let them eat after midnight!
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  2. Re:Europa by MacAndrew · · Score: 3, Funny

    It makes the prospects for life on Europa just that much more promising.

    Seems like a long way to go for food! ;-)

    I have to second whoever cited the Andromeda Strain. How do we know the critters weren't buried there years ago on purpose by hostile aliens, a time bomb set to go off when we got too curious....

    I know we've seen this scifi plot 100 times. But how do we know these tired plots weren't buried there years ago on purpose by hostile aliens, a time bomb......

  3. Re:Tune Back to the Late Late Show, kiddies by ArsonPerBuilding · · Score: 2, Funny

    How many times have ancient supergerms from these Not-Meant-To-Be-Touched-By-Man sources nearly wiped humanity from the face of the Earth?
    There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Korilian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out life on this miserable planet. The only way these people get on with their happy lives is they do not KNOW ABOUT IT.

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