Microbes Alive After Being Frozen for 32,000 Years 527
An anonymous reader writes "LiveScience is reporting on a new type of bacteria that after being frozen 32,000 years in the Arctic was ready to swim, eat and multiply instantly upon being thawed. Researchers are excited because they're the sort of microbes that might thrive in the ice sea announced on Mars yesterday. The instant revival abilities mean a future mission, if it found anything on Mars, could conceivably culture it and bring it back alive. Maybe NASA could market them as Martian Sea Monkeys."
We're all dead!! (Score:5, Funny)
Mmm... microbe babes! (Score:5, Funny)
Wouldn't you be ready to eat and, uh, multiply if you had been without for 32,000 years?
Fark headline? (Score:5, Funny)
NASA scientists market Martian microbes as 'Martian sea monkies'. Hilarity ensues.
What? (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't I see this.... (Score:1, Funny)
Smart move, Scientists!
Tastes just like chicken they say (Score:1, Funny)
Uh oh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fark headline? (Score:5, Funny)
Ed wood wants out of his grave to direct... (Score:1, Funny)
Have you *never* seen (Score:5, Funny)
Sometimes its a good idea to leave that frozen stuff the way you found it.
Re:Honest Question (Score:1, Funny)
Re:We're all dead!! (Score:5, Funny)
Hare-way to the Fark! (Score:2, Funny)
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>NASA scientists market Martian microbes as 'Martian sea monkies'. Hilarity ensues.
Dehydrated martians? Yeah, I can work with that.
Audioedit: This bunny yelling " Run for the hills, folks! Or you'll be up to your armpits in Martians! [barbneal.com]"
K-9 wants steak?
Re:We're all dead!! (Score:1, Funny)
32,000 years without coffee (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Uh-oh. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Yet Another Reason To Worry About Global Warmin (Score:1, Funny)
First thing the microbes did upon waking up... (Score:5, Funny)
Why are there so many 5, Funnys? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:blind eye (Score:1, Funny)
Re:what an idea (Score:3, Funny)
Yes. Let's try to make yogurt with them.
You can try the first batch.
Re:Theological Impact (Score:1, Funny)
I remember seeing a painting in the church where the placard on his cross said that "H3r3 15 J35u5 Chr157, 1337 d00d". It didn't make sense until just now.
Re:Uh oh... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yet Another Reason To Worry About Global Warmin (Score:2, Funny)
Re:We're all dead!! (Score:2, Funny)
Great, haven't these idiots seen Alien?
The Deadly Mantis (queue horror music) (Score:2, Funny)
MST3K fans will remember this as the episode where Bobo blows up the earth, followed by Crow's immortal words, "It was as though millions of monkeys cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."
A claim you might hear (Score:3, Funny)
Evolution seems to imply that each occurance of life is an independent event. If p(1)=10^-100 (boosted to 1 since life is observed), then p(2)=10^-200 (boosted to 10^-100)... Having a Creator boosts the probabilities to p(1)=1 (observed), p(2)=?? who knows? No reason not to create again. The Bible gives you places full of plants, animals, angels, cherubim, leviathon; just not people on any other planets.
Both creationism and intelligent design (aka aliens/other almost-godlike-but-not-quite-gods) should get major PR boosts over evolution if life is found on other planets.
I first heard this reasoning ~8 years ago. Take it or leave it.
PS. 93% of the statistics used on
Re:We're all dead!! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:We're all dead!! (Score:5, Funny)
New type? (Score:5, Funny)
This is obviously a meaning for the word new I hadn't previously come across
Re:Could you handle it? (Score:2, Funny)
***Yawn***....as the bacteria wake up... (Score:2, Funny)
Bacteria 2: "ZZZzzzzZZZzzzz..."
Bacteria 3: "Morning!"
Bacteria 1: "Hey, wake up!"
Bacteria 2: "ZZZzzz...aaahhh...morning. How long this time?"
Bacteria 3: "Uh...looks like...32,000 years."
Bacteria 1: "Well that's a lot shorter than last time."
Bacteria 2: "Yes, it is. I wonder why things warmed up so quickly."
Bacteria 3: "Well any-hoo, you boys ready?"
Bacteria 1: "I most certainly am..."
Bacteria 2: "Let's get it done quickly, I want to go back to sleep."
Bacteria 3: "Okay then, let the next Extinction Commence!!!"
Re:We're all dead!! (Score:5, Funny)
Couldn't Help It (Score:1, Funny)
Re:We're all dead!! (Score:0, Funny)
And we wonder why the government is in debt... (Score:2, Funny)
Wouldn't it have been much cheaper to announce this ice sea here on good ole' planet earth? Do we really need to be supporting the Martian tourist industry with these thinly vieled vacations to other planets for government officials? We shouldn't be supporting these Martian bacteria when we have so many unemployed Terran bacteria here at home.
reason? (Score:0, Funny)
I always new that the scene in Alien (the movie) was a lie, after a cryo sleep you dont want to eat Spaghetti.
Re:We're all dead!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:pff, feeble (Score:2, Funny)
I am trying as hard as I can. So far I'm doing perfectly, but I suspect I haven't collected enough data points yet to accurately predict my eventual success or lack thereof.