Posted on 11/29/2022 9:08:52 PM PST by bitt
For almost 50,000 years, viruses have been waiting, frozen in layers of permafrost that have thawed with the warming of Earth.
A recent study of a section of Siberian permafrost by scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research found 13 viruses that have survived 48,500 years, according to Canada’s Global News. That’s older than the previous oldest virus found, which was 30,000 years old.
One of the new finds has been dubbed a “zombie virus” by the New York Post.
“One quarter of the Northern hemisphere is underlain by permanently frozen ground, referred to as permafrost. Due to climate warming, irreversibly thawing permafrost is releasing organic matter frozen for up to a million years,” said an abstract of the study posted on BioRxiv, which publishes study pre-prints.
The abstract said the lack of discussion of viruses found in permafrost “wrongly suggests that such occurrences are rare and that ‘zombie viruses’ are not a public health threat.”
The study framed the need to study the viruses and bring them to life under strict laboratory conditions as necessary to address prevention should they become active and a public health threat through, for example, such activities as open-pit mining in areas of what once was permafrost.
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I’ve seen this movie.
It doesn’t end well.....................
The Extra-terrestrial pilot of that craft was HUGE compared to humans, and the alien killed him.................
Like they do to mine rare earth metals for electric car batteries? Activities like that?
“Due to climate warming, irreversibly thawing permafrost is releasing organic matter frozen for up to a million years,” said an abstract of the study posted on BioRxiv, which publishes study pre-prints.”
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So who caused the global warming that allowed the organic matter to exist at those depths millions of years ago?
The answer my friend is shining in the sky, the answer is shining in the sky.
Back story for the next bio lab cook-up to plague us with.
“Strict Laboratory Controls”
LIKE COVID???
WRONG
😜 unfrozen ice?
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