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120,000-Year-Old Bacteria Awakened

Posted June 16, 2009 8:03 AM

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The recently revived Herminiimonas glacei - image: The Society for General Microbiology Forgetting the lessons of Jurrasic Park, scientists have "awaken" a strain of bacteria called Hermeniimonas glacei from a 120,000-year slumber trapped beneath a block of ice. What could go wrong? The new bacteria species was found nearly 2 miles (3 km) beneath a Greenland glacier, where temperatures can dip well below freezing, pressure soars, and food and oxygen are scarce.

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06/16/2009 9:27 AM

It would be convenient to know the best way to kill it for when the Greenland ice cap finally melts. If coastal infrastructure is wiped out, scientists will be too busy dealing with other problems.

Off the wall: Perhaps this bacteria will give us an idea of what conditions were prevalent during the last 126,000 year cycle, as per the Mayan calender, ending 12/21/2012.

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06/16/2009 11:24 AM

Kill it? I'm counting on it!

This humble ancient bacteria may be the only weapon that can save the human race from being trodden to death by the next infestation of woolly mammoths.

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06/16/2009 11:06 PM

Or Woolly tree huggers and Global Warming enthusiasts.l

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06/16/2009 11:33 PM

Or it could be the only thing to save the Earth from humans!

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06/17/2009 9:19 AM

WWWOOAAAUUUHHH! Somebody are on business at least! Incredible. OH Well! Probably by -'Bomb'- spraying a good amount of a nice 'clinical purposes' disenfectant spreaded all over it (PPE Required) big time until drawned totally it'll get dissapeared, I'll Bet!, finished, no more bacteria stuff for good. But, yeaaaahhh! I know I know the -"Red Tapes- and -Whites Papers Works"- time consuming runners stuff around. So, never end deal and back to number one? Nothing Been Done Yet? I don't know then, what we can do? 'We have the Technology' to counteract it but if not used on time frame then -Leave it to the Beavers-!

See, the technology (Enzimes-Virucidal-Bactericidals-Etc.) you named is already there, but it's been stagged by too much time consuming stuff that at the end again -Nothing it Been Done, Doesn't?- Anyhow. Who know what the heck this bactria coming with this time, GOOOOSSHHH! 'Better Not to Find Out'

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06/17/2009 12:43 PM

gotta love it

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06/17/2009 10:01 PM

Could be the key to inter stellar travel if it can stay "dormant" for that long, then maybe it can help us to understand how we could also stay dormant through the time and tempertures encountered in space travel.

But PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE very careful. We (all life on earth, not just humans) may be no longer resistant to this anchient organism.

Swine flu "around the world in 8.0 days" and we knew what we were looking for!!!!

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