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Bacteria Found Alive In Ice 120,000 Years Old
FiReaNGeL notes research presented this morning at Penn State on the discovery of a new, ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. From the psu.edu announcement: "The microorganism's ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen, and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for studying how life, in general, can survive in a variety of extreme environments on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the solar system. This new species is among the ubiquitous, yet mysterious, ultra-small bacteria, which are so tiny that they are able to pass through microbiological filters. Called Chryseobacterium greenlandensis, the species is related genetically to certain bacteria found in fish, marine mud, and the roots of some plants."
"This is a great discovery. There is nothing at all to worry about." said the oddly-behaving scientist who discovered the sled dog.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
But..... the earth is only 6000 years old.
Somebody is lying!
What power has law where only money rules.
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Sure, the bacteria survived. But how do you think it felt, being trapped in ice for 120,000 years? The first few years were probably ok. After that, it probably got really good at checkers. After the 1000th year, it proved that P=NP. At year 10,000, it dreamed of starting its own civilization. But then it started to go mad. Mad. MAD, I tell you. Now that it is free, the bacteria wants nothing but to seek revenge upon all other life forms for continuing to prosper and evolve while it was trapped beneath the ice. Buried alive. Buried alive...
(Kaaaaahn....)
Hell, I've got bacteria in my refrigerator that's as old as that.
This ain't rocket surgery.
I would hate to discover that this was a rare bacteria that produces greenhouse gasses... and will begin to reproduce rapidly now that it's free.
Anything you say will be held against you.
In soviet Russia, bacteria finds you frozen in ice thousands of years later.
Do we ...
(Achoo!)
*sniff*
... have any immunity?
If you put the bacteria into a radioactive, poisonous desert with a rat, a cockroach, Cher and a lawyer, which would survive longest, and would it actually eat the others?
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I am sure after all these years, this bacteria is either:
A) Eager to evolve into an organism capable of having sex.
B) Eager to start posting regularly on Slashdot.
Yes, these options are mutually exclusive.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
I can just see it now...
Breaking news:
Scientists have genetically engineered flesh-eating bacteria that is too small for scientists to detect. Drinking from your faucet is in advised as no filter can filter them out. Symptoms include explosive diarrhea then your eyeballs will fall out.
Well, I guess that just about wraps it up for God.
Bender: "I was enjoying it until you guys showed up!"
He wants his ice-cream back
How do they know ? Did they ask it when it's birthday was ? Cut one in half and count the rings ??
God put those bacteria there to test our faith
AS soon as I hit commit, I saw my "There" mistake and new there would be a comment about that.
Not that it matters, there are plenty of best sellers and classic with bad grammar.
Yes, I know there are others.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Don't you watch Moral Orel? God made Technology to make our lives easier. The Devil made Science to prove God wrong.
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
:/ you can't DISPROVE god.... but thats not the point, you can't PROVE god is. The burden of proof is on the religious....
Also i could probably prove the DM exists in most D&D campaigns from the characters POV.... though i do like the analogy, it should replace cars on slashdot to represent the world. Nerdier than cars and if anything weird happened we could blame it on gnomes.
How will this discovery save our bananas?
Clearly the bacteria was waiting for the Nintendo Wii, but overshot the release date a little..
. . . only to die of gobal warming . . .
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. - Thorstein
AS soon as I hit commit, I saw my "There" mistake and new there would be a comment about that.
Commit? Why isn't there a ROLLBACK TRANSACTION button?
I bet Bush wishes he had replied to that email now doesn't he.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
"The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline." - Marvin