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SCIENTISTS SAY ORGANISMS TRAPPED IN THIS ANCIENT ROCK MAY STILL BE ALIVE
Futurism ^ | 16 May 2022 | NOOR AL-SIBAI

Posted on 05/16/2022 11:32:51 AM PDT by Scarlett156

We don’t wanna freak you out, but West Virginian scientists may have found a life form more than 800 million years old.

In a new paper published in the journal Geology, West Virginia University geologists say that some of the microorganisms found inside the Browne Formation, an 830 million-year-old rock found in the Australian desert, may still be alive — and if they are, it could help us find life on Mars, to boot.

Taking a piece of the Browne Formation, which includes halite salt crystals, the WVU researchers found organic liquids and solids using non-invasive optical techniques. Within those substances, they then found single-celled organisms known as prokaryotes, which have been discovered in the past to survive hundreds of millions of years when trapped inside salt crystals like the one inside that particular ancient rock.

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KEYWORDS: australia; biology; browneformation; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; godsgravesglyphs; halite; nooralsibai; prokaryotes; salt; science; westvirginia; youngearthdelusion; youngearthdelusions
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To: pax_et_bonum

“Only rock songs”

That makes it crystal clear.


41 posted on 05/16/2022 12:48:04 PM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: Scarlett156

I can’t remember where Biden is from, but it would follows the same scenario if they can find some rocks older than him.

wy69


42 posted on 05/16/2022 1:01:30 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: lee martell

IF one is a scientist that spelling is correct.


43 posted on 05/16/2022 1:01:33 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" LStar)
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To: Mogger

I love that movie


44 posted on 05/16/2022 1:03:51 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: escapefromboston

I’d rather take my chances with an unknown organism that’s been sitting around for eons than with the morons in the White House. Couldn’t be worse.


45 posted on 05/16/2022 1:07:14 PM PDT by Veto! (Political correctness offends me)
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To: Mathews

We’re living in a horror movie with Dems “in charge.” I’d rather take my chances with a new organism that just sat there for eons.


46 posted on 05/16/2022 1:09:52 PM PDT by Veto! (Political correctness offends me)
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To: Tallguy

27. No, they are not micro-organisms. They are Helen Thomas cells.


47 posted on 05/16/2022 1:40:03 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: cuban leaf

Jafar thought 10,000 years struck in a lamp in the Cave of Wonders was bad.


48 posted on 05/16/2022 1:46:52 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

“We don’t wanna freak you out,”

“I’ve seen this movie.
It doesn’t end well.......:

Seen the movie also, that’s why I’m freaked out.


49 posted on 05/16/2022 1:47:26 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: Scarlett156

Chia Pet


50 posted on 05/16/2022 1:51:26 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Scarlett156

If you want the Andromeda strain this is how you get the Andromeda strain.


51 posted on 05/16/2022 3:37:03 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: nickcarraway

52 posted on 05/16/2022 4:07:40 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Elderly microbes.


53 posted on 05/16/2022 4:22:38 PM PDT by FrogMom (Time marches on...)
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To: FrogMom

When you’re 830 million years old will you look so good?


54 posted on 05/16/2022 5:03:00 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Scarlett156

Curiosity killed the cat.
Schrodinger’s cat.


55 posted on 05/16/2022 5:17:22 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: cranked
Just add water? /s

Just like see monkeys!
56 posted on 05/16/2022 5:19:06 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Erik Latranyi
It’s only a clump of cells. Kill it.

I was thinking that maybe Neil Young dropped it.

57 posted on 05/16/2022 5:39:00 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Rebelbase
AndromedaBrowne Strain
58 posted on 05/16/2022 5:45:17 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Scarlett156

...and they haven’t evolved?!?


59 posted on 05/16/2022 6:51:30 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Migraine
That makes it crystal clear.

Marble it does, marble it doesn’t.

We shell see.

60 posted on 05/16/2022 8:06:42 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
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