| Tango01 | 25 Aug 2020 4:10 p.m. PST |
…buried under the seafloor "Microbes found themselves buried in the dirt 101.5 million years ago, back before even Tyrannosaurus rex when Earth's biggest meat-eating dinosaur, called Spinosaurus roamed the planet. Time passed, continents shifted, oceans rose and fell, great apes emerged, and eventually human beings evolved with the curiosity and skills to dig up those ancient cells. And now, in a Japanese lab, researchers have brought the single-celled organisms back to life. Researchers aboard the drill ship JOIDES Resolution collected sediment samples from the bottom of the ocean 10 years ago. The samples came from 328 feet (100 meters) below the 20,000-foot-deep (6,000 m) bottom of the South Pacific Gyre. That's a region of the Pacific Ocean with very few nutrients and little oxygen available for life to survive on, and the researchers were looking for data on how microbes get along in such a remote part of the world…"
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| Covert Walrus | 25 Aug 2020 4:20 p.m. PST |
Hmm. The risk works both ways; Our immune systems and biology has changed so much since they developed, they might not be able to compete. Or they have such simple methods of attack, they might slip past all the sophisticated defenses and atck cells in different ways. Might be a cause for concern for animals who have survived from that period, though. |
 Mserafin  | 25 Aug 2020 4:59 p.m. PST |
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 etotheipi  | 25 Aug 2020 5:14 p.m. PST |
Everything was bigger back then, right? |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 25 Aug 2020 5:58 p.m. PST |
What could possibly go wrong? I see a movie in the making here. Also a fun scenario for a RPG, maybe Call of Cthulhu. |
| witteridderludo | 26 Aug 2020 3:54 a.m. PST |
That's another case checked on my 2020 Apocalypse bing card…
Looks like I just need an alien invasion to win :-) |
| etotheipi | 26 Aug 2020 4:59 a.m. PST |
Those guys above are from my Entirely Plausible Journey wargame scenario on WGV. It's a fantastic scenario where your forces journey through a living organism and fight disease. I'm not sure they could make a movie about that … |
| Doug MSC | 26 Aug 2020 9:17 a.m. PST |
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| Thresher01 | 26 Aug 2020 11:58 a.m. PST |
I have a bad, no, a very bad feeling about this. |
| Tango01 | 26 Aug 2020 12:15 p.m. PST |
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 javelin98 | 26 Aug 2020 4:00 p.m. PST |
Even the foods our ancestors ate could be poisonous to us now, given the changes in our digestive systems and flora over tens of thousands of years. These microbes could be the next Ebola. |
| von Schwartz | 27 Aug 2020 6:12 p.m. PST |
Wow! now that's Lovecraftian! |
 Legion 4  | 28 Aug 2020 10:27 a.m. PST |
"Nuke'm from orbit … " … Well you know the rest … 🚀 |
