Posted on 10/20/2008 6:44:17 PM PDT by neverdem
LOL! How far do bacteria have to navigate to? Half an inch?
Kewl.
In the life of a bacterium, a half inch is a universe of travel. ;-)
Micro SUVs in Joisey, who’da thunk it?
Jumbo shrimp....
pardon me, but no comprehenda
>>>>microbes buried in 55-million-year-old sediment<<<<<
They had single celled organisms (Democrats) 55 Million years ago?
Who knew?!
Dr. Messmer apparently was correct!!
The northern end of the pond has more sunlight.
Hence to say, "Such events take place thanks to an irregular path" is the same as to say, "I do not know why they occur." The introduction of such lines is in no way superior to the "sympathy," "antipathy," "occult properties," "influences," and other terms employed by some philosophers as a cloak for the correct reply, which would be: "I do not know."
- Galileo, The Assayer
What don't you get, "microbes buried in 55-million-year-old sediment," or man made global warming that long ago?
Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Anthrax ...
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If I remember correctly, there is a theory that there was a tremendous increase in atmospheric methane, which I guess would cause more methane disolved in water. I wonder if that with temperature could have caused this phenomenon? I imagine an experiment with temperature, sea water, methane and organisms could be developed. If these were eukariots (sp?) which came later than microbes, then they may have originally evolved at a time when our temperature was high and methane rich atmosphere existed.
One of the worries about global warming is that it could release a lot of arctic methane into the atmosphere. Somewhere, perhaps at FR, I saw a report that there were signs of increasing methane release in the Russian Lena River delta. This was going to be reported on at some conference in Europe in the past year. Anyone have more info on this?
I should have said the sudden increase was about 55 million years ago.
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