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Ice age bacteria brought back to life
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| 2/25/2005
| Kelly Young
Posted on 02/25/2005 12:57:59 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: MadIvan
Isn't that something of a lesbian establishment?Not when I visited, as far as I could tell.
Does it involve hirstute women wearing Birkenstocks? If so, I'll pass.
No, it involves shapely women wearing nearly nothing.
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posted on
02/25/2005 1:54:35 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
To: Lazamataz
No, it involves shapely women wearing nearly nothing.Somehow I doubt this - if this were the case, you would still be there, I think. :)
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/25/2005 1:55:43 PM PST
by
MadIvan
(One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
To: pabianice
"It's listed as having voted in Chicago as a Democrat last year..."
I just heard that it has been declared as the "First Democrat".
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posted on
02/25/2005 1:56:20 PM PST
by
hophead
("Enjoy Every Sandwich")
To: nuffsenuff
Don't tell me you're afraid of a little Andromeda Strain.
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posted on
02/25/2005 1:56:44 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(massgopguy)
To: helen crump
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posted on
02/25/2005 1:58:55 PM PST
by
hattend
(Liberals! Beware the Perfect Rovian Storm [All Hail the Evil War Monkey King, Chimpus Khan!])
To: MadIvan
Somehow I doubt this - if this were the case, you would still be there, I think. :)Two things stopped me: 1) I needed to get back to my girl, and 2) the school year would have ended eventually. :o)
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posted on
02/25/2005 1:59:03 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
To: job
Someone else actually watched that yawn festival?
To: Lazamataz
Two things stopped me: 1) I needed to get back to my girl, and 2) the school year would have ended eventuallyAlas. But there are such things as "continuing education".
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/25/2005 1:59:58 PM PST
by
MadIvan
(One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
To: aimhigh
Sounds like the plot of a book I read a few weeks ago,
The Plague Tales. The book dealt with a team of archaeologists in England accidentally digging up a plague victim from the original Black Death outbreak back in the 1300's and unleashing some of the bacterium, which is much more potent than the version of the plague that is wandering around today.
This could have been a great book, but the author killed it by bouncing back and forth between the present day and the 1300's, with a part of the story set in ancient times just wandering around without any rhyme or reason.
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:09:59 PM PST
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. - John Adams)
To: I Drive Too Fast
I could use a mammoth. I have alot of chores to do ala The Flintstones.
To: aimhigh
This would seem a pretty good indication that NASA is over-funded.
Having spent billions to demonstrate that some rocks on Mars are reddish brown while others are brownish red, my guess is that with space exploration in a bit of a lull, they were in a "spend it or lose it" mode. Hence, a critical mission of bringing ancient microbes in Alaskan glaciers back to life.
NASA has traditionally gotten a pass from conservatives, who prefer to rail at "entitlement" spending, silly rail transit schemes, education expenses for illegal immigrants, foreign aid to countries who hate us, public broadcasting, and so on. It's long past time to pressure NASA to provide justification for its extravagant ways, and to wield a big budgetary ax.
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:12:40 PM PST
by
southernnorthcarolina
(<b><font color=e58d0e>Did you know that HTML codes don't work on tag lines?</font></b>)
To: Graymatter
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:14:02 PM PST
by
Barney59
(Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!)
To: Lazamataz
You say that like it's a BAD thing...
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:17:12 PM PST
by
null and void
(They aren't character flaws, they're character embellishments...)
To: aimhigh
Ready for the next plague? There is a short story I read years ago about a scientist, on his own, drilling down into a unique bit of amber with what appears to be a multi-million year old remnant of some unknown animal embedded in it. Turns out that immediately on penetrating the amber he is felled by the virus still embedded in that tissue fragment. Within only a few days 99% of all life on Earth is wiped out.
The next scene in the story is some far future very non-human intelligent life form beginning work on a bit of tissue embedded in amber in a lab several million years in the future...
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:24:57 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
("When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring.")
To: aimhigh
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:35:08 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: aimhigh
Please tell me they used a BL-4 lab to isolate this puppy.
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posted on
02/25/2005 2:49:47 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
To: RosieCotton
"A bacterium that sat dormant in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years has been revived by NASA scientists."
None of these guys has ever gone to the movies--none of them. Probably learned all they know about bacteria from a University somwhere. Fools!
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posted on
02/25/2005 3:29:45 PM PST
by
TalBlack
To: TalBlack
None of these guys has ever gone to the movies--none of them. Probably learned all they know about bacteria from a University somwhere. Fools!*shakes head sadly*
Yep.
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posted on
02/25/2005 3:30:45 PM PST
by
RosieCotton
(A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
To: BostonianRightist; Fiddlstix; El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; ...
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
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posted on
02/25/2005 6:10:31 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: frogjerk
You mean, the bacteria was DEAD and scientists reanimated the bacteria?
I think the article should have said "Ice age bacteria thawed"
I think they just turn into a virtually indestructible spore and can last indefinitely. Weird little f*ers.
Take one apart ("for the science") and give the rest a bath in clorox.
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