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2020-07-29 Science

From RANTBURG's 'how smart is this' department: Deep sea microbes that laid dormant for 100 MILLION years are ‘revived' in a lab after being fed certain minerals

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The mineral wasn't plutonium by any chance?

Posted by Thimp Gonque3544 2020-07-29 00:26|| 2020-07-29 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 ...This is how the movie always starts, people...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-07-29 00:44|| 2020-07-29 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Essential oils up the ass?

Posted by Raj 2020-07-29 00:45|| 2020-07-29 00:45|| Front Page Top

#4 And we still have almost half of 2020 left...

Posted by Glenmore 2020-07-29 05:28|| 2020-07-29 05:28|| Front Page Top

#5 And feed those deep-sea microbes some HCQ, just to be on the safe side.

Posted by Clem 2020-07-29 05:56|| 2020-07-29 05:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I was praying for Sweet Meteor Of Death, but The Andromeda Strain From 1000 Fathoms works just as well.

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-07-29 06:53|| 2020-07-29 06:53|| Front Page Top

#7 ET I want to go home.

HELP!!

Posted by AlanC 2020-07-29 08:46|| 2020-07-29 08:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, we probably lost all 'Herd Immunity' for these just a year or two ago.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-07-29 08:49|| 2020-07-29 08:49|| Front Page Top

#9 This was a self contained, isolated lab without outside contact, right?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-07-29 10:56|| 2020-07-29 10:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Tyranopestis Rex is not on my 2020 Bingo card.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-29 12:33|| 2020-07-29 12:33|| Front Page Top

#11 This was a self contained, isolated lab without outside contact, right?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-29 14:00|| 2020-07-29 14:00|| Front Page Top

#12

Posted by Woodrow 2020-07-29 16:46|| 2020-07-29 16:46|| Front Page Top

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