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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: MadIvan
Sometimes scientists truly irritate me.

Just wait til their bacteria catches up with you......

101 posted on 02/26/2005 4:32:04 PM PST by ninonitti
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To: adam_az

Carnobacterium pleistocenium.


You don't suppose that means, meat eating bacterium of the
pleistocene?

Maybe I'll just slip out and get another bottle of lysol.


102 posted on 02/26/2005 4:33:08 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: MadIvan
Didn't we see this movie already??

"Great Googley Moogley!!"


103 posted on 02/26/2005 4:40:23 PM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: MadIvan
Isn't that something of a lesbian establishment?

You're thinking of Wellesley College where the Hildebeast was commencement speaker.

104 posted on 02/26/2005 4:50:46 PM PST by ninonitti
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To: hershey
Just what I was thinking. Defrost these bugs and you never know what you get.

Defrosted bugs!

105 posted on 02/27/2005 2:02:31 PM PST by night reader
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To: aimhigh
Good Grief! They have launched the avian pachyderm flu.
106 posted on 02/27/2005 7:12:45 PM PST by -=Wing_0_Walker=-
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Perhaps now we will finally find out for sure what killed the dinosaurs.

Doubt it was this as dinosaurs would have been long dead at that point

That only proves that the dinosaurs did not drive the bacterium extinct, doesn't it.

107 posted on 03/01/2005 1:56:25 PM PST by tarator
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Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

Please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.
Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest
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108 posted on 08/03/2005 9:46:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
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Catastrophism

109 posted on 05/14/2006 5:41:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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