[MonroeDNA]

I wonder how good an idea it is to release 15 million-year-old microbes thousands of feet into the atmosphere.

[Bikers4Bush]

Not good at all.

[ExpatCanuck]

I wonder how good an idea it is to release 15 million-year-old microbes thousands of feet into the atmosphere.

That was pretty much the first thought that crossed my mind too, but they don't seem too concerned.

[finnman69]

I wonder how good an idea it is to release 15 million-year-old microbes thousands of feet into the atmosphere.

Awwww it aint so bad. This is Hillary's Fortress of Shame.

[ctlpdad]

If those microbes have been there that long(their ancestors, anyway) under the kind of pressure & oxygen level conditions as described, then i doubt they would survive the massive changes, and would themelves pop like a can of warm mountin dew in th back of a black suv in a houston parking lot.
wouldn't it be kinda scary if some alien kinda thing did crawl out at night, though.

[wbill]

I wonder how good an idea it is to release 15 million-year-old microbes thousands of feet into the atmosphere.

Yep. Perhaps I've seen too many X-files episodes, but I'm wondering if there's anything in there that doesn't need to be let out.......

[AmusedBystander]

Please read it again. They aren't concerned by microbes from down there, they don't want to contaminate with microbes from up here.

...might become contaminated with microbes and chemicals from the surface.