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Microbes Alive After Being Frozen for 32,000 Years
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."
Hasn't anyone ever read Andromeda?? Don't thaw them out!!
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Wouldn't you be ready to eat and, uh, multiply if you had been without for 32,000 years?
I can imagine the fark headline in a few years.
NASA scientists market Martian microbes as 'Martian sea monkies'. Hilarity ensues.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
The number of years isn't rounded to 32,768? And you call this a geek site?
....in a bad sci-fi movie? Now I guess we're all screwed.
Smart move, Scientists!
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Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
queue asstastic Sci-fi ripoff movie in 3...2...1...
this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/ The Thing.!?
Sometimes its a good idea to leave that frozen stuff the way you found it.
The same way you know you've cooked your ramen for three minutes..?
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>NASA scientists market Martian microbes as 'Martian sea monkies'. Hilarity ensues.
Dehydrated martians? Yeah, I can work with that.
Audioedit: This bunny yelling " Run for the hills, folks! Or you'll be up to your armpits in Martians!"
K-9 wants steak?
...will make for very grumpy awakenings, they're gonna some be pissed-off little buggers, I wouldn't wake 'em up... unless of course you thaw them out in a nice cup o' joe.
Natasha Henstridge? I'd buy it too!
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haha, you mean, like aids/hiv? ..how about cancer?
take a really long piss.
It's all 5, Funny until an entire (human) race gets obliterated by Martian bacteria...
Re: inciting followers to be peacefull hippies - that's pretty much what the Buddha did to his followers :-)
Can you even think of a worse idea??
Yes. Let's try to make yogurt with them.
You can try the first batch.
Anakin Simpson: If you're not with me, then you're my enemy--ooh, donuts!
The Bible says the Christ *died for teh sins* of humans, which the Bible implies are only on Earth.
I remember seeing a painting in the church where the placard on his cross said that "H3r3 15 J35u5 Chr157, 1337 d00d". It didn't make sense until just now.
Ah, yes. The good old cancer microbe.
I remember a great old Scifi movie (with the usual commentary by Mike, Servo, and Crow on MST3K) called The Deadly Mantis. It's about a giant preying mantis (that can fly) trapped in the antartic ice but freed when the ice shelf it's in breaks up. Of course, the first thing it does is waste the air force base, then heads south to take out Washington DC. Fortunately, there's an expert on bugs or radioactive mutations, or wearing suits on the big screen or something like, who follows it into a tunnel and kills it in some creatively unspectacular fashion that I don't remember. It ends with him getting the girl, who is, of course, only in the movie in order to be "gotten" by the hero. Now we've unleashed this terror upon ourselves.
MST3K fans will remember this as the episode where Bobo blows up the earth, followed by Crow's immortal words, "It was as though millions of monkeys cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."
If evolution is a process requiring billions of years to occur and such exquisitely balanced conditions that life has never been created from raw materials in the lab, wouldn't finding life on other planets make evolution EVEN MORE improbable?
/. are created as needed to meet the demand.
Evolution seems to imply that each occurance of life is an independent event. If p(1)=10^-100 (boosted to 1 since life is observed), then p(2)=10^-200 (boosted to 10^-100)... Having a Creator boosts the probabilities to p(1)=1 (observed), p(2)=?? who knows? No reason not to create again. The Bible gives you places full of plants, animals, angels, cherubim, leviathon; just not people on any other planets.
Both creationism and intelligent design (aka aliens/other almost-godlike-but-not-quite-gods) should get major PR boosts over evolution if life is found on other planets.
I first heard this reasoning ~8 years ago. Take it or leave it.
PS. 93% of the statistics used on
a new type of bacteria that after being frozen 32,000 years
This is obviously a meaning for the word new I hadn't previously come across
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amen brother!
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Bacteria 1: "Yawwwn...good morning..."
Bacteria 2: "ZZZzzzzZZZzzzz..."
Bacteria 3: "Morning!"
Bacteria 1: "Hey, wake up!"
Bacteria 2: "ZZZzzz...aaahhh...morning. How long this time?"
Bacteria 3: "Uh...looks like...32,000 years."
Bacteria 1: "Well that's a lot shorter than last time."
Bacteria 2: "Yes, it is. I wonder why things warmed up so quickly."
Bacteria 3: "Well any-hoo, you boys ready?"
Bacteria 1: "I most certainly am..."
Bacteria 2: "Let's get it done quickly, I want to go back to sleep."
Bacteria 3: "Okay then, let the next Extinction Commence!!!"
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
I for one welcome our new martian sea monkey overlords.
might thrive in the ice sea announced on Mars yesterday.
Wouldn't it have been much cheaper to announce this ice sea here on good ole' planet earth? Do we really need to be supporting the Martian tourist industry with these thinly vieled vacations to other planets for government officials? We shouldn't be supporting these Martian bacteria when we have so many unemployed Terran bacteria here at home.
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they woke up to have sex.
:) /moak
I always new that the scene in Alien (the movie) was a lie, after a cryo sleep you dont want to eat Spaghetti.
Try being alive for 16 million years!
I am trying as hard as I can. So far I'm doing perfectly, but I suspect I haven't collected enough data points yet to accurately predict my eventual success or lack thereof.