From the New York Times....
"These Microbes May Have Survived 100 Million Years beneath the Seafloor
Rescued from their cold, cramped and nutrient-poor homes, the bacteria awoke in the lab and grew.
In a paper published Tuesday in Nature Communications, Dr. D??Hondt and his colleagues describe the remarkable revival of a small population of microbes that may have spent the past 101.5 million years ensconced in a slumber under sediments deep below the gyre ?? only to be roused awake in the lab.".........link below
When asked "Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?", Mallory apparently replied "Because it's there".
I just can't help but think there's an edge-of-your-chair sci-fi thriller movie come to life in this story.
I mean, what if some of these microbes are something like "terminator leprosy germs" or similar??ÿ One germ gets out of the lab and in less than a week the entire human population of the planet is reduced to oozing dumpster sludge.?ÿ Wouldn't be pretty....that would make COVID-19 seem like a warm fuzzy.
And these scientists are coddling this stuff and trying to fatten it up.?ÿ WTF??ÿ
I just can't help but think there's an edge-of-your-chair sci-fi thriller movie come to life in this story.
I mean, what if some of these microbes are something like "terminator leprosy germs" or similar??ÿ One germ gets out of the lab and in less than a week the entire human population of the planet is reduced to oozing dumpster sludge.?ÿ Wouldn't be pretty....that would make COVID-19 seem like a warm fuzzy.
And these scientists are coddling this stuff and trying to fatten it up.?ÿ WTF??ÿ
I was thinking the same thing.?ÿ
