Originally published at: Ancient animal revived after 46,000 years in ice could help prepare us for the climate apocalypse | Boing Boing
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“What could possibly go wrong?”
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It is starting to feel like the Cabin in the Woods moment, where all the monsters are released into the world.
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I mean it’s really cool, but I’m having a hard time seeing how this will help humans prepare for the climate apocalypse, unless it’s to ensure that there is still a microbiome to rebuild from should any humans survive. There is a reason that microscopic organisms are good at cryptobiosis, it’s because the physics and chemistry can work at that scale. It’s a much different story for anything our size, and by the time we understand these evolutionary processes at a molecular level, it will be too late to help us survive the climate apocalypse.
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Wow… it’s an “undescribed species” too. I wonder if there will be new populations of organisms that will emerge in the world because of climate change now as more ice melts.
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“Do you accept Frosty the Snowman as your personal saviour?”
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Or maybe “help us avoid the climate apocalypse by killing us all.” Epic days we live in.
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Aw, man. I was really hoping for a merman.
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… got us to click on the link, that’s what matters 
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That’s basically Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne waiting to happen.
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