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June 15, 2009

Freakin' Terrific

Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years in Ice

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.


You know...not EVERYTHING in ice needs to be 'woken up'. The bitch is in telling which one.

Posted by tree hugging sister at June 15, 2009 10:24 PM

Comments

Is that a photo of Mr. Bingley during his puberty?

Posted by: JeffS at June 15, 2009 10:56 PM

Is that a photo of Mr. Bingley during his puberty?

Posted by: JeffS at June 15, 2009 10:57 PM

Heh. I was thinking along the same lines except it was the more modern thing.

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 16, 2009 05:54 AM

I'm a retro kinda gal, Guns.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at June 16, 2009 08:09 AM

Uhm.... isn't this how the Blob started? Re-freeze it!

Posted by: nightfly at June 16, 2009 09:56 AM

Can we just shoot the annoyingly naive scientist-guy now? Before he starts feeding the goddamn thing, I mean.

Posted by: mojo at June 16, 2009 12:39 PM

And then what happens? PETA has a shit because he starved the microbe and it eats Manhattan.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at June 16, 2009 12:58 PM

And they needed to wake this thing up because ....?

Posted by: Gary from Jersey at June 16, 2009 04:19 PM

Because it was just the CUTEST little frozen, ancient ass microbe EHvah.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at June 16, 2009 09:53 PM