After more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken. The long-lasting bacteria may hold clues to what life forms might exist on other planets.The new bacteria species was found nearly 2 miles (3 km) beneath a Greenland glacier, where temperatures can dip well below freezing, pressure soars, and food and oxygen are scarce.
I don't know as it's a very good idea to be fooling around with any millions-years dead bacteria. You never know what you might wake up.
Posted by: Starla Darling at June 15, 2009 04:27 PMIt really isn't. We don't have a single flamethrower in this house.
Posted by: Donnah at June 15, 2009 04:32 PMShoot, flamethrowers! I forgot all about those! Silly me, I let my stupid cousin Travis borrow mine to clear brush with and he went and LOST it! How do you LOSE a flamethrower? And it was a really nice flamethrower too.
Posted by: Starla Darling at June 15, 2009 04:40 PMHow did he lose a flamethrower? To the trunk of his car? Is it under the empty McDonalds' bag on the floorboard of the backseat?
Posted by: Donnah at June 15, 2009 04:56 PMYeah, that's probably it! The very same car he "lost" when he left it running in the store parking lot "for just a minute" while he went to get a bag of pork rinds.
Posted by: Starla Darling at June 15, 2009 05:02 PMLOL. It's details like rinds that make a story interesting.
Posted by: Donnah at June 15, 2009 05:16 PMThanks, pork rinds are very important to people like my cousin Travis, the kid who ran a drill bit into his finger right to the bone when he was seven or eight.
Posted by: Starla Darling at June 15, 2009 07:25 PMIn the back of my mind I have always been concerned about something like this happening or something similar.
So many what ifs, or too many sci-fi movies. lol.
The microbe escapes the lab, and because its 2 million years old it starts a epedemic that we have no cure for.
4 mos later 90% or more of the population of the whole earth is dead. Nough said!
Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.
Or, I need a hobby! lol
Posted by: Sheila at June 16, 2009 08:12 AMBut the ten percent who survive rule the world!!!! *sinister laugh here*
Posted by: Starla Darling at June 16, 2009 08:22 AMThat's why I always keep Clorox around.
Posted by: nancy at June 16, 2009 09:36 AMThe first time I watched this movie, I was drunk on my ass (I kept my clothes on this time) and watching Showtime with a friend at 2:00 am. Half a joint later my ability to disbelieve was gone I was in total freak out mode. That single note music can still give me chills if I'm in the "right" frame of mind.
Posted by: Willard at June 17, 2009 11:27 AMConsidering our Precedent's on the TV for the FIFTEENTH time tofrickin'day, I am willing to surrender myself to ANY microbe if it promises to put me out of my misery.
Posted by: panhandle cooter at June 17, 2009 01:03 PMI don't mind seeing Obama all over the TV so much as I mind opening hte newspaper every single day and seeing some kind of "Where Is Joe Biden Today?" thing. Okay, he's from Delaware. Okay, if he was from Utah, the Utah papers would do the exact same thing. But this is getting tiresome.
Posted by: Starla Darling at June 17, 2009 06:28 PM