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Russians Find "New Bacteria" In Lake Vostok
tverbeek writes "Russian scientists believe they have found a new type of bacteria in the sub-glacial Lake Vostok. From the article: 'The samples obtained from the underground lake in May 2012 contained a bacteria which bore no resemblance to existing types, said Sergei Bulat of the genetics laboratory at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics.
"After putting aside all possible elements of contamination, DNA was found that did not coincide with any of the well-known types in the global database," he said. "We are calling this life form unclassified and unidentified," he added.'"
FUCK YES!
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this is bad, I just know it.
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in soviet russia we bacteria you
I love living in a world where the regular headlines sound like the start of a decent sci fi adventure.
Now let's just hope this puppy doesn't get out of the lab and become a sci-fi/horror. Two hundred years from now it could be on the History Channel as "Zombie Plagues from the Past".
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Anyways, let us see what happens to the crew before allow them to go home
Russian style!!!
Karma: Bad
I discovered SEVERAL new species of bacteria living on the surface of Uranus!
This was an X-Files wasn't it??
They better have had a dozen outside peer reviewers staring at this, too.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
I've seen this movie. We can just give up now, we're all dead.
But when will Putin hunt, kill and eat said bacteria?
Make sure that nobody on the team that goes down there to further investigate is wearing a red shirt!
It's the only way to be sure.
It's believed the new bacteria could have unknown affects on the human body.
Cue the "disaster movie-of-the-week" music.
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Did Big Foot find it by using magic crystals to communicate with aliens who have the technology to find bacteria?
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
Table-ized A.I.
Go on, you know you were all thinking it.
Thank God it's already UNCLASSIFIED. Could you imagine how long it would take to declassify?
Don't accept a salad sandwich from anyone connected with the Russian government until this is settled.
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The linked article is very vague. Hopefully the team will release sequence data in the near future. Broader sampling should finally resolve the question whether there are three or two domains of life (Eocyte hypothesis).
Meteors, Lakes, Bacteria.
Now all we need is the Intelligent Designer of it all.
Yebatsya!
But it's Aliens
... welcome our new overlords!
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
we found extraterrestrial life on Earth. Like say we were digging in the ocean, or some sheet of ice somewhere and found extraterrestrial(not necessarily intelligent life but microbial).
Since the 3 current ones are Eukaryotes, Bacteria, and Archea.
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Not for long...
I thought it was Myanmar now.
Russian scientists believe they have found a new type of bacteria in the sub-glacial Lake Vostok.
Better there than in a pap smear, I always say.
I wonder if it runs away from heated copper wire?
As any proper scientist can tell you, the way you test unknown life is with a copper wire and a flame thrower.
This "article" was clearly "no exception" to that "rule." The more things you put in "quotes" the better everything "is."
Russians are the first to start confirming reports that there is new DNA that is not our own on this planet....
they chose to bring it forth this way, but will eventually lead to actual confirmation of life from outer space and that they have arrived/landed....probably through a ship at the bottom of the lake.
Or I might have just finished watching x files marathon...take your pick.
so finally... we know what murdered all the Dinosaurs, lets study it more, preferably in a lab located in a major metropolis.
A team of Russian scientists suddenly went missing near Lake Vostok. The only clues left behind was a mysterious slime that covered their labs.
Sounds like another bad SyFy movie in the making.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
The russians found a new plague to ravage the world..
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He's down for this.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
how much bacteria did they introduce into this environment?