8 Million Year Old Bacteria Thaws, Lives

Jamie found a New Scientist story about 8 million year old bacteria that scientists thawed out, and now it's alive. Also somehow they are sure that this is safe. The interesting bit is that since these samples came from ancient ice, it seems that the world will naturally be filled with these guys soon.

Welcome

[amigabill]

I for one welcome our new microscopic overlords.

The next Hollywood thriller plot

[Anonymous Coward]

Also somehow they are sure that this is safe.

Just before the bacteria Attacked

Re:Welcome

[lonechicken]

I for one welcome our new microscopic overlords.

You mean "old."

Let me be the first....

[martyb]

I know it's been a LONG time, so let me be the first:

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday dear bacteria,
Happy Birthday to You!

(P.S. please don't tell the RIAA I sent this or there might be a fine. ;-)

truly amazing

[JeanBaptiste]

you typed all that in under 4 minutes. (story posted at 11:01, comment posted at 11:05)

want to document my code for me? shouldn't take you long

Re:Welcome

[Rhaban]

I for one welcome our very very old microscopic overlords.

better that way.

Re:Welcome

[Trigun]

New to you, or pre-owned...
or would that be pre-pwn3d?

Lawyers?

[iknownuttin]

The Bacteria, named Cirroc, have said that they plan to attend law school and embark on a new career as a personal injury lawyer.

The article said they were parasitic bacteria?

Re:Typical misleading summary...

[DataBroker]

Wow! Did you realize that you wrote more words (660) than were in the whole of TFA (610)?

And you still missed the fact that the article is obviously all lies since the world simply may not contain 8 million year-old bacteria since it is 6,000 years old.

Re:Welcome

[eviloverlordx]

I guess the stars were right.

Re:truly amazing

[MillionthMonkey]

/*
you typed all that in under 4 minutes. (story posted at 11:01, comment posted at 11:05)
want to document my code for me? shouldn't take you long
*/
You're right- that was fast!

Re:truly amazing

[eno2001]

He does what I do. You write and write and write all over the net. Sometimes as a troll, sometimes honestly, sometimes just to take the piss. Then you archive everything you write waiting for the right article to post in. But, if it would make you happy, I have a ton of documentation I've written for applications that may at some time in the future exist. If you have an app that matched, I'd be happy to send you a copy. :)

Re:Welcome

[Anonymous Coward]

or would that be pre-pwn3d?

No, pre-pwn3d is when someone sells you a 3 year old Windows box.

Re:truly amazing

[djupedal]

Remember - subscribers can see articles in the future. What seemed like 4 minutes to your disconnected asse was actually 2 hours to his connected asse.

Ok, everyone laugh and point at #537955 so he can complete his initiation and we can move on to the next chodderhead.

Wouldn't it be great

[Anonymous Coward]

If these microbes turn out to love eating our greenhouse gasses?

No reason to worry, they can't be 8M years old

[Anonymous Coward]

The oldest they can be is about 6,000 years, right?

Re:Welcome

[shelterpaw]

"old" is the new "new"

War of the Worlds

[HTH NE1]

Before the early 21st Century, Earth experienced a scourge of humans. Common bacteria from ancient ice stopped the humans, but it didn't destroy them. Instead they lapsed into a state of deep hibernation. Now, the humans are resurrected, more destructive than ever before. Before the early 21st Century humans had taken over the world. Now, they're taking over our colonists' bodies!

Can you say CPT Trips

[pete.com]

I'm moving to Boulder today... I know the outcome of this story.

Thingking of you ...

[DrogMan]

One name: John Carpenter
One thing: Er, The Thing

We're doomed...

Re:You're right

[pohl]

Exactly, because no point is ever valid if it came from an asshole.

Sorry, just joining the dogpile.

Re:Welcome

[bigdavesmith]

Not so fast, buddy. This is how it all ends. Global warming causes the ice caps to melt, and it releases that neon-green buggy stuff that only gets active at night, like on that one x-files episode.

I'm stocking up on flashlight batteries and fuel for the generator.

Re:Welcome

[xENoLocO]

A dell with Windows ME on it came to my mind when I read "pre-pwn3d"

Re:Typical misleading summary...

[Anonymous Coward]

In ancient Athens, when an inanimate object would kill someone, like in the situation you allude to, they would take the object to trial at the Prytaneion. If the object was found guilty, they would destroy or exile it.

So, maybe the grandparent is just an ancient Athenian, so your conclusion that they should go free because of the equivalence, is mistaken. I bet you never thought of that one, not that I blame you.

Not that impressive

[Anonymous Coward]

He was just the last monkey in line. The other 999,999 monkeys wrote the bulk of the comment; he just had to type in the period.

Re:truly amazing

[Andrewkov]

Moderation is cruel. Just look at what happens to this post.

Re:Welcome

[SleptThroughClass]

I'm stocking up on flashlight batteries and fuel for the generator.

Good. They like to eat those.

Re:Welcome

[Walt Dismal]

In other news, researchers were puzzled by the discovery of a 9 million-year-old bacterium, until they realized they'd accidently sampled food from Taco Bell.

No you have it backwards.

[pavon]

ASCAP sued the Girls Scouts for singing Happy Birthday at campfires without paying public performance royalties. The copyright is held by Summy-Birchard Music, a subsidiary of Time Warner.

Right.

[Bozdune]

God seeded the Earth with very old fossils and so forth to test our faith (nod to Martin Gardner's "Fads and Fallacies"). Obviously this bacterium was on the Ark just like all the others.

Re:Welcome

[f1055man]

I have mod points, but I couldnt find a "-1 TMI"

Re:truly amazing

[pseudorand]

Considering the number of ./ articles are repeats of old ./ articles, you don't have to subscribe to see articles in the future, you just have to search the archives. :)

Posts (probably including this one) are even easier. Just scroll up.

Re:truly amazing

[Charles W Griswold]

He does what I do. You write and write and write all over the net. Sometimes as a troll, sometimes honestly, sometimes just to take the piss. Then you archive everything you write waiting for the right article to post in. But, if it would make you happy, I have a ton of documentation I've written for applications that may at some time in the future exist. If you have an app that matched, I'd be happy to send you a copy. :)

Awesome! I have an app that automagically filters out the B.S. from political speeches. I've been over the algorithm several times and it really should work, but for some reason I never get any output. Oh, well; better luck next time, I guess.

Thankfully there's an ozone hole too

[EmbeddedJanitor]

The UV will nuke these suckers!

Re:Welcome

[Anonymous Coward]

The bit between the quotes...