| Tango01 | 03 Mar 2020 12:37 p.m. PST |
"In 2015, when researchers embarked on an expedition to retrieve the oldest ice on the planet, they were doing it to look for clues about past climate. But during the journey—to the Guliya ice cap in China's Tibet (above)—they also found 15,000-year-old viruses—some of them new to science, Vice reports. The scientists retrieved the ancient viruses by drilling 50 meters deep into the glacier ice. Then, to rule out any contamination, they developed an original method to study the microbes in the lab, they reported earlier this month on the preprint server bioRxiv. The critters they found, including 28 new viral groups, represent the microbes that were present in the atmosphere at the time they were trapped in the ice, giving scientists a window to understanding the past climate and microbial evolution."
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Maybe… Coronavirus?….
Amicalement
Armand
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Frederick  | 03 Mar 2020 2:47 p.m. PST |
Sometimes things buried in ice are better off staying in ice |
| mjkerner | 03 Mar 2020 5:42 p.m. PST |
What, they never watched "The Thing"? |
| von Schwartz | 03 Mar 2020 7:08 p.m. PST |
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| Twilight Samurai | 03 Mar 2020 9:13 p.m. PST |
Sometimes pandemics need a little helping hand. |
| Augustus | 04 Mar 2020 6:35 a.m. PST |
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| HMS Exeter | 04 Mar 2020 7:23 a.m. PST |
I remember a PBS special about the research into the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Somebody got the bright idea to dig up corpses of people who had died of the flu and got "buried" in permafrost and then take samples. Members of the team urgently recommended extraordinary containment measures. The team leaders were like, "yeah, right, good idea." Viruses are like squirrels and water. Not super smart, but they make up for it with absolute relentlessness. |
 Legion 4 | 04 Mar 2020 9:03 a.m. PST |
I saw that show too. I guess they wanted to see with current tech, etc., what the virus looks like, etc., etc. To possibly prepare for the next one, etc., etc. Members of the team urgently recommended extraordinary containment measures. The team leaders were like, "yeah, right, good idea." Well I'd think they'd certainly want do that. We saw what happened last time …  |
| Tango01 | 04 Mar 2020 11:59 a.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 04 Mar 2020 10:24 p.m. PST |
Not the kind of ice you'd want to use in your drinks (though the alcohol might kill the germs, but then the dirt might kill the taste… ;-) |
| Tango01 | 05 Mar 2020 11:41 a.m. PST |
Ha!Ha!…. Amicalement
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| 14Bore | 04 Apr 2020 6:26 p.m. PST |
After this nuke it just to be safe |
| Legion 4 | 06 Apr 2020 8:48 a.m. PST |
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