Posted on 04/17/2009 5:49:00 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
A living time capsule of sorts has been found buried under hundreds of feet of Antarctic ice — a colony of microbes that have been sealed off from the rest of the world for more than 1.5 million years.
The finding, detailed in the April 17 issue of the journal Science, could serve as a model for how life might survive on icy planets elsewhere in the galaxy.
The microbes, which live without light or oxygen, were detected in meltwater flowing out from Taylor Glacier, one of the outlet glaciers of the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet in the otherwise ice-free McMurdo Dry Valleys.
The Dry Valleys are considered one of Earth's most extreme deserts, devoid of animals and complex plants.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
So many sci-fi movies start out just like this...
“You kids get off my ice!”
Cthulhu, is that you?
‘live without light or oxygen’
Sure this wasn’t in DC?
standard premise-base reporting (source is “livescience” btw, not fox)
they find some bacteria, so it’s all got to be about the “millions of years”. everything’s been “millions of years” by their theory, so why should that be the main premise here? because it’s propaganda; a never-ending drip-drip-drip because they want you to believe something. It’s essentially evangelism. humanist evangelism.
Global Warming...I mean...Climate Change...has wounded the poor glaciers and they are now bleeding to death. It is all so sad.
Hmmm, microbes the world has not seen in a million years...are suddenly set loose on an unsuspecting planet? </dramaqueen angle>
...and geology.
That was the first thought that occurred to me. Shades of Cortes and his assault on Tenochtitlan.
no, not geology. re-read the post you replied to, especially the part that carefully explains how this is premise-based reporting, how the millions of years aspect bears absolutely no relation to the news, the real science about how bacteria were found.
“geology” is not the core science at issue here anyway. so, you know, you might want to check the trigger on your post reflex. it’s hair-fine right now.
The microbes will infect all living things and that will be then end of us all. We’re doomed. Doomed, I say.
This is what happens when Chuck Norris has a bad burrito, which is how France was created
Million dollar microbes are a threat to our security.
ping
Geology bears on the age of the ice whether it’s three seconds or however many millions of years old.
Relative to this, I’d be more intersted in reading geological reports.
God made the universe...interesting.
The bacteria are the news story. A scientist found bacteria. That much is true. A lot of other stuff here is assumption.
For example, an evolutionist will show you a core of ice samples, and try to convince you that million of layers means millions of years, “just like trees”. Of course, 11 year old fall for this in their droves, because they have recently learned that trees have annual rings, so this makes sense to their young impressionable mind. However the more educated are able to go to, say, Canada, scrape some overnight snow from the top of a car, and find 20+ layers in 1 night. Then that person says to his-or-her-self “hmm, someone has been lying to me”
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