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Scientists revive 100 million-year-old microbes from the sea
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Posted on 07/28/2020 7:25:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The tiny organisms had survived in the South Pacific seabed - in sediment that is poor in nutrients, but has enough oxygen to allow them to live.
Microbes are among the earth's simplest organisms, and some can live in extreme environments where more developed life forms cannot survive.
After incubation by the scientists, the microbes began to eat and multiply.
Professor and study co-author Steven D'Hondt, from the University of Rhode Island, said the microbes came from the oldest samples taken from the seabed.
"In the oldest sediment we've drilled, with the least amount of food, there are still living organisms, and they can wake up, grow and multiply," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 99993976bc; 99993976bce; cryptobiology; darklife; deeplife; dinosaurs; extremophiles; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; paleontology; stevendhondt; thomasgold; yukimorono
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:25:55 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:26:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
4,000 years from the Flood
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:27:03 PM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: BenLurkin
>>Microbes are among the earth’s simplest organisms, and some can live in extreme environments where more developed life forms cannot survive.<<
Nature invented the democrat party?
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:28:25 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
To: BenLurkin
Helen Thomas is being revived?
To: BenLurkin
>> COVID-20 has entered the chat
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:33:17 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: BenLurkin
Where more developed life forms cannot survive
Oh.....like San Francisco.
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:33:34 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: BenLurkin
Oh Good
A Paleolithic pandemic when they escape
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:34:00 PM PDT
by
Regulator
To: All
Anything that they can use at the Wuhan biowarfare labs?
To: ClearCase_guy
To: BenLurkin
The microbes began to eat and multiply
Just like my family reunion.
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:36:43 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: blueunicorn6
I guess maybe eat, get drunk, fight and multiply is closer to what happened at the reunion.
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:38:28 PM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: BenLurkin
What could possibly go wrong?
To: blueunicorn6
My wifes family reunion was more like eat, get drunk, fight, multiply and blow themselves up with fireworks.
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:40:32 PM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: BenLurkin
Thanks BenLurkin.
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:42:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:44:23 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:55:39 PM PDT
by
knarf
To: BenLurkin
Is one of them AOC's brain cell? 😋 Oops, I insulted those Microbes, since I believe they are smarter than AOC and most of the Dem leadership...
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07/28/2020 7:56:59 PM PDT
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Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
To: BenLurkin
Ok, so they are not really 100 million years old. That is just silly. Microbes are way too delicate. They are not 100 thousand years old, 1000 years old would push plausability.
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:58:11 PM PDT
by
D Rider
To: BenLurkin
What could possibly go wrong???
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:58:13 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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