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Microbes Alive After Being Frozen for 32,000 Years

Posted by samzenpus on from the stasis dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LiveScience is reporting on a new type of bacteria that after being frozen 32,000 years in the Arctic was ready to swim, eat and multiply instantly upon being thawed. Researchers are excited because they're the sort of microbes that might thrive in the ice sea announced on Mars yesterday. The instant revival abilities mean a future mission, if it found anything on Mars, could conceivably culture it and bring it back alive. Maybe NASA could market them as Martian Sea Monkeys."

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  1. Re:I, for one,... by TWX · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Not all fundies are ignorant idiots. Don't paint us that way."

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    BWAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!

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  2. Re:I spit on your 32K years. Try 25M! by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Are you kidding? That's not even possible let alone true. Your cousin probably just corner hacked in an online computer game to win it or something and made that story up to tell you so you would think he was doing something busy.

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  3. Re:I spit on your 32K years. Try 25M! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    yeah right, loser!

    ..and your cousin sucked my pussy and then I fucked the both of you with a strap-on dildo!
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