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Ancient Fungus 'Revived' In Lab (180-430,000K Years Old)
BBC ^ | 10-21-2004

Posted on 10/21/2004 3:50:58 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 10/21/2004 3:51:05 PM PDT by blam
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Wow. That was on some French cheese in the back of my refrigerator.


2 posted on 10/21/2004 3:52:04 PM PDT by RtWngr
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I thought that grew under french women's arms.


3 posted on 10/21/2004 3:53:51 PM PDT by pipecorp ("never know where you're going till you get there." the philosopher Insectus Harem)
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Great... now we have a new strain of atheletes foot fungi.


4 posted on 10/21/2004 3:54:56 PM PDT by 1stFreedom
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To: blam

Sounds like the set up for a Sci-Fi picture.


5 posted on 10/21/2004 3:56:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (We have low inflation and and low unemployment.)
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Is that what they sprayed on Edwards' hair the other day?


6 posted on 10/21/2004 3:56:08 PM PDT by sitewriter
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Oh no!
There's goes Tokyo
Go. Go. Godzilla.

It's best to leave dead things alone.


7 posted on 10/21/2004 3:58:18 PM PDT by capitan_refugio
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Fungus from a deep-sea sediment core that is hundreds of thousands of years old can grow when placed in culture

Helen Thomas and Frank Lautenberg immediately come to mind.
8 posted on 10/21/2004 3:58:45 PM PDT by Bars4Bill
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"Sci-Fi picture"

Or reality special - "Andromeda fungi or What killed the Neaderthals?" Five contestants recieve sub-cutaneous injections and enter quarantine for one month. Who will survive?


9 posted on 10/21/2004 4:00:47 PM PDT by Socratic (Kerry/Edwards - Forging a New Reality)
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To: blam

There's a fungus among us.


10 posted on 10/21/2004 4:00:49 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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"In the battle against athlete's foot, you've gotta have Tough Actin Tinactin"


11 posted on 10/21/2004 4:00:58 PM PDT by Buford T. Justice
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Somehow this doesn't seem like a very good idea...


12 posted on 10/21/2004 4:02:37 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Defeatists Suck)
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Sheesh. Can we say "no natural immunity"?
Hope that puppy doesn't escape the confines of its lab. Yet, I'll wager Murphy's Law remains alive and well.


13 posted on 10/21/2004 4:03:35 PM PDT by Cooltouch
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fungus amongus, pong


14 posted on 10/21/2004 4:05:30 PM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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Somehow this doesn't seem like a very good idea...

Yeah, the classic case of introducing a lifeform into an environment where it has no natural predators. That may not apply in this case, but it is the standard fear in this sort of thing.

15 posted on 10/21/2004 4:05:30 PM PDT by mikegi
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To: blam; PatrickHenry

Science marches on.


16 posted on 10/21/2004 4:10:14 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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I don't buy science that is 90% guess work. That sample can be as little as 1000 years old depending on what activity took place. great pressure happens at such depths, depending on sediment and volcanic, seismic activity, flood water run off etc. it could be a fairly young sample, some Pygmies scraping fungus off his foot with a rock while fishing, tossed it overboard his canoe,
petrified wale poop.


17 posted on 10/21/2004 4:13:34 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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You understand that somehow this is going to turn bad, and it will all be Bush's fault


18 posted on 10/21/2004 4:14:49 PM PDT by What-to-do
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BTTT


19 posted on 10/21/2004 4:15:20 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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Ancient Fungus 'Revived' In Lab (180-430,000K Years Old)

They call it....HELEN THOMAS.

20 posted on 10/21/2004 4:19:37 PM PDT by Angry Enough
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