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20 Million Year Old Spider Found

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the complete-with-drivers-license-and-birth-certificate dept.

evil agent writes "BBC News is reporting that Paleontologist Dr. David Penny has found a spider, and two droplets of blood, perfectly perserved in amber. He was able to extract the blood and determine its age: 20 million years old. Since it is thought to be the first time that spider blood has been found perserved in amber, it is hoped that DNA could be extracted."

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  1. Re:Worried soul here! by GISGEOLOGYGEEK · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No buddy,

    The rumour is wrong.

    AIDS was accidently created in africa in the 1950's by British scientists.

    The scientists were helping the people of Africa by vaccinating them against polio. ... a wonderful thing.

    BUT

    The dumasses used the kidneys of local monkeys to grow the cultures of polio vaccine.

    But the scientists didnt work under the same standards used in Europe and North America, so thousands of Africans were injected with a dirty mixture. Yes they were protected against polio, but they were exposed to viruses carried by the monkeys to which they had no immunity.

    Yes, AIDS was 'discovered' in the 1980's ... but research since has found people in the right part of Africa that acquired new unknown diseases in the right time period, with all the symptoms of AIDS. And there is a retro virus native to the monkeys in that area that are very closely related to the HIV virus.

    Of course the old British scientists deny it all, despite plenty of paperwork that still exists, and accounts from people who used to bring in the monkeys and work in the labs.

    --
    George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
  2. Re:blah! by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's a testimony to the continuing influence of the US that people treat the 6000 year thing as a mainstream position.. it's a tiny minority outside the US (1% I'd guess.. seems to be near 100% of christians in the US.. didn't one state mandate teaching it as science? Scary stuff...).

    The Flying Spagetti Monster has more credibility to it though (we *know* spagetti exists - what more proof do you need?)... IMO Christianity has a lot going for it, without the lunatic fringe screwing everything up.