Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/04/scientists-revive-100-million.html
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That headline sounds like the premise for a horror movie…
This sounds like the beggining of act 4 of the 2020 tragic comedy.
Indeed, I can’t see how this can go wrong. Don’t these people watch movies?
Hasn’t 2020 been bad enough already without releasing brain sucking microbes from the past upon us?
(Heard in the voice of Don LaFontaine)
“In the oldest sediment we’ve drilled, with the least amount of food, there are still living organisms, and they can wake up, grow and multiply.”
“That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
I gotta tell ya, these current aeons are feeling pretty forkin’ strange.
Someone better call Steve McQueen.
Do you want giant land dwelling lobsters?
Um, yes?
This is actually pretty cool, it lends a lot more weight towards the theory of panspermia (microbes on meteorites seeded the foundations of life on earth). Do these microbes do anything besides multiply?
Did no one read Andromeda Strain???
please…do NOT bring them up!
Watch Fortitude on - I think - Amazon.
Alternate title: The Tiki Bar; Is that bar snack moving?..
So much drawn butter!