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Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years on Ice

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12:48 pm
June 15, 2009


alicat

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Saw this today and thought everyone might be interested.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/090615-resurrected-microbe.html

1:30 pm
June 15, 2009


Mary

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I saw this, too, and thought, "Isn't this the way science-fiction/horror movies start out?"

"Quando omni flunkus moritati" ("When all else fails, play dead") – Possum Lodge motto. Jason and Grant should adopt it as their own.

4:25 pm
June 15, 2009


Revenant

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Mary said:

I saw this, too, and thought, "Isn't this the way science-fiction/horror movies start out?"


When I worked at one particular lab, my friends would get into these long, drunken arguments on when I finally did unleash my "end of the world" project on the unsuspecting populace, would it be intentional or unintentional?  I found the unintentional answer insulting, as it would indicate a mistake on my part.  Movies seem to go 50/50 on the intentional/unintentional thing.  Anyway, no need to worry…all of you are still alive.  You're welcome.  Wink

Alicat, thanks for the link.  Here's another one that I found interesting as well.  It's about an Astronaut looking for the same types of thing on Mount Everest:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090518-everest-astrobiology.html

"Skepticism is not a position, it's a process." -Dr Michael Shermer

5:12 pm
June 15, 2009


alicat

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Thank goodness for Revenant!  Glad you have it under control.  Thank you! Wink

Thanks for the link as well.  Very interesting.  I'll have to read up on this even more.   I'm always amazed by people like this astronaut.  He really has the deep passion for adventure and science.

6:54 pm
June 15, 2009


blinddog

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posts 857

I'm not going to worry until the security guard at the lab or factory gets killed.
They're always the first to go.

http://ops.tamu.edu/x075bb/survival.html

Check #59.
Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom.

Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.

7:53 pm
June 15, 2009


alicat

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Blinddog,

Very funny.  A lot to read and it's late but so far my favorites are 59 of course, 46, 62 54 and 16 if you add The Spalding Inn.  Now you know why I love 62!  Great link!

8:55 pm
June 30, 2009


Nosfer

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10:35 pm
June 30, 2009


Revenant

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