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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."
What if they find 120,000 year old bacteria on Mars...we are just STUPID enough to attempt to bring it back...
There are no YEC's on slashdot. Wouldn't it be great if we could have just one thread about science without someone like mentioning them? Your post is as lame as when people rush in to type 1st post!!!
Newsflash: some people don't believe in science. Get over it.
Your refrigerator is fine, just don't tell us about the ones in your shorts.
"Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional."
Ignorance is bliss.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
It doesn't? Do you have a doctorate-level understanding of every basic scientific subject? If not then you have to take some sort of leap and trust what the authority in some area says is truth.
This to me sounds strangely like religion. Somewhere along the line you have to place trust or belief in something. Nothing is empirical when you're trusting an "authority" on a subject.
You take a leap of faith/belief/trust somewhere, even if its not the level of the FSM.
...and contains both literal meaning and parables... In other words: you don't think that the Bible is the literal word of God and should be followed literally.It's fucking QUARTER you shit for brained monkey fucker! Fourth is an ordinal number, not 1/4. What next will you retards be calling a half a twoth? or second perhaps?
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?