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  1. 04-Mar-2014 #1
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    Giant Virus Revived from Ancient Permafrost

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/gi...rost-1.2558417

    Scientists have discovered a new type of virus in 30,000-year-old permafrost and managed to revive it, producing an infection.

    Fortunately, the new virus, named Pithovirus sibericum, infects amoebas and is not harmful to humans.
    Come on Robin, to the Bat Cave! There's not a moment to lose!
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    Scary shit. Add yet another onto the list of "this is how we go extinct" possibilities.
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    What else is down there we don't want to wake up
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    What else is down there we don't want to wake up
    Plans for a Coyote Ugly sequel
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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    Plans for a Coyote Ugly sequel
    Nooooooooooo!
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    What else is down there we don't want to wake up
    Oblivion gallops closer, favoring the spur, sparing the rein - I think we will be gone soon
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