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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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Ready for the next plague?
1 posted on 02/25/2005 12:58:00 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

will the same science work to get hair growing again?


2 posted on 02/25/2005 12:59:36 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: aimhigh

Please tell me they've destroyed it.

Please?


3 posted on 02/25/2005 1:00:03 PM PST by nuffsenuff
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They'll be sorrr-rryyy!


4 posted on 02/25/2005 1:00:18 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: aimhigh

Why such initial negativity?


5 posted on 02/25/2005 1:00:34 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: aimhigh

My gosh...don't they know what could happen? Don't they watch X-Files???


6 posted on 02/25/2005 1:00:55 PM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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Please tell me they've destroyed it.

Please?

I was thinking the same thing...

7 posted on 02/25/2005 1:00:58 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: BenLurkin

See Smilla's Sense of Snow.


8 posted on 02/25/2005 1:01:06 PM PST by job ("God is not dead nor doth He sleep")
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To: aimhigh

It's listed as having voted in Chicago as a Democrat last year...


9 posted on 02/25/2005 1:01:52 PM PST by pabianice
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To: aimhigh

Incredible.

This could get very interesting.


10 posted on 02/25/2005 1:02:21 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Open borders=National suicide)
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To: aimhigh; windcliff
Now named Carnobacterium pleistocenium, it is thought to have lived in the Pleistocene epoch, a time when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth.

Would bringing this bacteria back to life be considered a "Mammoth" undertaking.

Time to watch "The Andromeda Strain" again.

11 posted on 02/25/2005 1:02:34 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: neverdem

Ping


12 posted on 02/25/2005 1:02:46 PM PST by BostonianRightist (I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at.)
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To: aimhigh

The natural processes of this world took it out of circulation for a reason. Sometimes scientists truly irritate me.

Regards, Ivan


13 posted on 02/25/2005 1:02:55 PM PST by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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Ice age bacteria brought back to life

You mean, the bacteria was DEAD and scientists reanimated the bacteria?

I think the article should have said "Ice age bacteria thawed"

14 posted on 02/25/2005 1:04:04 PM PST by frogjerk
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A scientist grew bacillus isolated from the salt crystals of an ancient sea bed. The bacillus sample was 250 million years old. That's the current record holder.


15 posted on 02/25/2005 1:04:54 PM PST by mysterio
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It's a miracle that it managed to survive.
Geeez, the Engangered Species Act wasn't passed until 1973.
How could it go for thousands of years without Government protection?
16 posted on 02/25/2005 1:05:12 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: frogjerk

Revitalized or revived would probably be a better term.


18 posted on 02/25/2005 1:05:39 PM PST by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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To: aimhigh; neverdem; blam; SunkenCiv

BTTT


19 posted on 02/25/2005 1:06:26 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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