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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?
It's Encino Paramecium
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
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.
take a really long piss.
It's all 5, Funny until an entire (human) race gets obliterated by Martian bacteria...
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!
Ah, yes. The good old cancer microbe.
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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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.
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.