Long lived bacteria

Kenv · Post by **Kenv** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:15 pm

I saw an article in our daily newspaper today about a place called Fox in Alaska. They were cutting into a piece of permafrost which was 30,000 years old. There was a brown area in the ice and one guy melted it and had a look under the microscope. The brown area was bacteria which, when melted, were swimming around, apparently unhurt after 30,000 years in ice.
Kenv

twebster · Post by **twebster** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:46 pm

Hi ya' Ken

I thought this was pretty amazing, too. Here's a link to an article on CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/02 ... index.html. I told my wife that stock I bought in a cryogenics lab would pay off someday. 30,000 years ago the bacteria froze and came back to life. Tomorrow it will be people

Thanks for sharing this, Ken.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:38 am

That was an interesting article Tom and thanks Ken for bringing it to our attention. I wonder what the bacteria looked like? To me bacteria is either round, long (rod shaped), or spiral (squiggley). The proper terms for these elude me at the moment, it is 5:30AM and I am just waking up (yawn). Coffee anyone?