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Ice age bacteria brought back to life
www.NewScientist.com ^ | 2/25/2005 | Kelly Young

Posted on 02/25/2005 12:57:59 PM PST by aimhigh

A bacterium that sat dormant in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years has been revived by NASA scientists.

Once scientists thawed the ice, the previously undiscovered bacteria started swimming around on the microscope slide. The researchers say it is the first new species of microbe found alive in ancient ice. Now named Carnobacterium pleistocenium, it is thought to have lived in the Pleistocene epoch, a time when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth.

NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover, who led the team, said the find bolsters the case for finding life elsewhere in the universe, particularly given this week's news, broken by New Scientist, of frozen lakes just beneath the surface of equatorial Mars.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: archaeology; bacteria; climate; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; mammoth; mammoths; mammothtoldme; pleistocene; science
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To: Graymatter

You mean the Miss Krump of Mayberry fame?


41 posted on 02/25/2005 1:23:58 PM PST by Barney59 (Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!)
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To: aimhigh

LOL...that's what I was thinking too...

Sometimes scientists are just "Book smart & life stupid..."


42 posted on 02/25/2005 1:24:08 PM PST by MD_Willington_1976
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To: aimhigh

Beware of the Blob!


43 posted on 02/25/2005 1:25:58 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and Ye Shall Find)
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To: aimhigh
I really wish that scientists would stop with the whole, "We found life in [some extreme environment] so that means that life on other planets is more possible." Not unless you are a creationist. Just because life can live in an extreme environment does not mean that it could develop in that extreme environment. Yeah, life might be able to live in a very broad range of temperatures and pressures but the sort of initial development that scientists suggest for life first evolving is much more narrow and specialized.
44 posted on 02/25/2005 1:26:39 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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To: Barney59
Here's Miss Krump! BLOB alert!


45 posted on 02/25/2005 1:30:41 PM PST by Graymatter (There are times when the Rule of Law needs an override.)
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To: Graymatter
Hmmm...I thought this all sounded rather familiar.


46 posted on 02/25/2005 1:33:07 PM PST by Chinito (We ARE the people our parents warned us about....)
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To: aimhigh

47 posted on 02/25/2005 1:34:18 PM PST by Starrgaizr
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To: yankeedame

that'lll work


48 posted on 02/25/2005 1:35:53 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: tallhappy
Why such initial negativity?

Because we are likely to have ZERO resistance to bacteria, funguses, and viruses from 32,000 years ago.

Like 'wipe out the entire Earth' vulnerability.

49 posted on 02/25/2005 1:38:03 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: tallhappy
Why such initial negativity?

Because we are likely to have ZERO resistance to bacteria, funguses, and viruses from 32,000 years ago.

Like 'wipe out the entire Earth' vulnerability.

50 posted on 02/25/2005 1:38:06 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: aimhigh
Greener Than You Think
51 posted on 02/25/2005 1:40:07 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Strategerist
We're all constantly bathed in bacteria all the time.

Not me. I shower with Lever 2000.


52 posted on 02/25/2005 1:40:19 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Lazamataz

It may not be a bacteria that would make us sick.

But still, I am not very comfortable with this even though the vast majority of bacteria don't hurt us.

Because if it is one that does, it could spread fast.


53 posted on 02/25/2005 1:41:16 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: MadIvan
The natural processes of this world took it out of circulation for a reason. Sometimes scientists truly irritate me.

Next up: Wesleyan University of Connecticut sponsering a study: "What ELSE Irritates MadIvan?"

54 posted on 02/25/2005 1:41:48 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: sandbar
Wouldn't it be funny if this is the microbe that cause massive extinction.


55 posted on 02/25/2005 1:43:57 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Lazamataz
Next up: Wesleyan University of Connecticut sponsering a study: "What ELSE Irritates MadIvan?"

Liberal Ivy League Universities would be on the list. ;)

Regards, Ivan

56 posted on 02/25/2005 1:44:54 PM PST by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: tallhappy
Why such initial negativity?


57 posted on 02/25/2005 1:44:58 PM PST by Polybius
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To: aimhigh

One of them should pour it is a glass and drink it to see what happens.;)~


58 posted on 02/25/2005 1:46:46 PM PST by painter (We celebrate liberty which comes from God not from government.)
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To: MadIvan
Liberal Ivy League Universities would be on the list. ;)

LOL! I dated a chick from Wesleyen when I was in college myself. That's why, when I was fumbling for a name, I chose that one.

Remind me to tell you about the time I needed to knock on the womans upper-floor dorm to get back into my chick's room (man's bathroom on the lower floor).

59 posted on 02/25/2005 1:48:58 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Lazamataz
I dated a chick from Wesleyen when I was in college myself

Isn't that something of a lesbian establishment?

Remind me to tell you about the time I needed to knock on the womans upper-floor dorm to get back into my chick's room (man's bathroom on the lower floor).

Does it involve hirstute women wearing Birkenstocks? If so, I'll pass.

Regards, Ivan

60 posted on 02/25/2005 1:51:16 PM PST by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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