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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Strep bacteria survived frozen inside an unmanned Surveyor 3 probe on the moon until Apollo astronauts bought the probe back for the data recordings. In other words, it survived being frozen at -250 F inside a container which shielded it from UV rays for years and revived once exposed to Earth conditions again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reports_of_Streptococcus_mitis_on_the_Moon


138 posted on 10/27/2014 5:13:33 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Morpheus2009

Bacteria thaws and ‘wakes up’ then.

As for viruses .... [quick google blurbs ....]

Can flu viruses survive winter in frozen lakes? - health - 29 ...

Nov 29, 2006 ... Evidence of viruses frozen in Siberian lakes prompts scientists to ... “Our hypothesis is that influenza can survive in ice over the winter and ...

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BBC News - 30,000-year-old giant virus ‘comes back to life’ - BBC.com

Mar 3, 2014 ... It was found frozen in a deep layer of the Siberian permafrost, but after it ... “If it is true that these viruses survive in the same way those amoeba ...


141 posted on 10/27/2014 5:27:19 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (The D.isease Party gets along better with satanics than with Christians.)
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