Bacteria live despite burial in seafloor mud for 100 million years:
You know those videos where people open (or even eat?) military rations from World War II? It's shocking to see just how well-preserved these "foods" can be after all those decades. In a way, Yuki Morono and his team of researchers at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology flipped that experience around by giving modern food to some old organisms. But their case involved bringing up ancient mud from the seafloor and adding some food to see if anything was alive in there.
There were, in fact, bacteria in the mud, which likely doesn't sound surprising. But given the environment and the age of this stuff—100 million years—it's actually pretty remarkable.
[...] The thing is, the researchers don't think this is just modern bacteria that have made their way deep into the mud. In fact, they shouldn't be able to move at all in that mud. The average space between particles in the clay should be considerably smaller than the size of a bacterium. The presence of microbes in the oldest sediments represent communities that are about as old as the sediment itself, the researchers conclude.
[...] This leads to an extraordinary claim: "Our results suggest that microbial communities widely distributed in organic-poor abyssal sediment consist mainly of aerobes that retain their metabolic potential under extremely low-energy conditions for up to 101.5 [million years]."
[...] So if the researchers are right about what they've found, it's a testament to the fact that life is nothing if not persistent. By slowing down to live within extremely limited means, these bacterial communities may have survived for a simply incredible length of time.
Also At:
100 million-year-old life forms found on the ocean floor
Journal Reference:
Yuki Morono, Motoo Ito, Tatsuhiko Hoshino, et al. Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years [open], Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17330-1)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 31 2020, @04:51PM
So, these bacteria were in the abyssal plain, probably held right around the freezing point of sea water at extreme pressure all that time.
Walt should have had his head sent 20,000 leagues under the sea...
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(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @04:51PM (7 children)
This is good news for Joe Biden fans!
(Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 31 2020, @05:30PM (3 children)
Wait, I thought Trump was the bottom feeder?
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday July 31 2020, @05:54PM (2 children)
Congrats to both for bringing the political debate to this story.
To complete the thread, let me offer my contribution:
List of what you need for bacteria to be reanimated after 100 million years in the mud:
- do not reboot them using systemd
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 31 2020, @06:04PM (1 child)
I didn't think it was a debate, IMO they're both (all?) bottom feeders.
As for systemd: haters gonna hate. I don't love it, but I don't hate it enough to complain.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Bot on Friday July 31 2020, @06:16PM
Proverbs 4:27: "Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @05:54PM (2 children)
If this is in reference to Biden's age, you should realize that no matter who gets elected they will be the oldest president the United States has ever had.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @08:55PM (1 child)
A straight white male in his 50s with Amy as VP would win in a landslide against Trump. But why did the Democrats think four geriatrics in their 70s were the answer?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 01 2020, @03:34AM
Power, pliability, and a lifetime of political favors in the bank. The Democratic Party has had a problem developing a younger generation of leaders for a long time. Younger progressives did keep trying to break in over the last twenty years, but the DNC froze them out. Howard Dean's voters, Kucinich's, and lately Bernie's have all tried to break in, but the Clintons and their DLC gang hated them. When Obama crushed Occupy Wall Street, I said it was a pity because it was going to be the last time the progressives in the party asked nicely for things to change, and that seems to have been born out.
The result is the DNC is playing Weekend at Biden's while the younger people riot.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @05:50PM
If the department line is a reference to Little Shop of Horrors, wasn't Audrey II a "mean green mother from outer space?"
(Score: 2) by LVDOVICVS on Friday July 31 2020, @05:58PM (9 children)
What better idea for 2020 than to reanimate hundred-million-year-old bacteria. I'm mean, what could go wrong? It could hasten the extinction of humanity. But at this point, it that a bad thing?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 31 2020, @06:05PM (5 children)
Well, I was thinking how wonderful that we can preserve Coronavirus for posterity. ;^)
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday July 31 2020, @09:11PM (4 children)
I am confident Wuhan lab keeps backups. What worries me most, anyway, is the next release candidate.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 31 2020, @09:25PM (3 children)
Wuhan v2? Is there a planned release schedule available yet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @10:05PM
Well, Patrick Swayze isn't going to make it, but maybe Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo are available and, hey, Julie Newmar is still around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @12:54AM (1 child)
Since it's a joint venture with Gates Foundation, v3 will be the first one that really works well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @01:17PM
v3 will also introduce new blood cells, engineered to resemble the Windows logo. As such, all infected are now property of Microsoft Inc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @06:07PM (2 children)
It adapted to live inside sea mud, not living humans.
(Score: 1) by gmby on Friday July 31 2020, @06:23PM
Is there really any difference?
Bye
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Friday July 31 2020, @09:12PM
Mod+1 flamebait
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @07:40PM (4 children)
If being at the bottom of the ocean for 100 million years can't kill off bacteria, I doubt I'm going to be able to clear up the gnat infestation in my apartment.
I hate bugs. The main reason I'm agnostic is because I just can't believe that a supposedly loving god would have cursed us with insects. Although dystheism would also fit I suppose. I'm meandering, I know; I probably inhaled too much insecticide. Maybe I'll keel over dead soon. Ignore the poisoned ramblings of another stupid anon.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 31 2020, @11:09PM
Fruit flies aren't gnats. You'll clean up that "gnat" infestation when you clean up your apartment!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @12:59AM (1 child)
He is a loving God, the problem is that He loves insects more than He loves you.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Saturday August 01 2020, @04:10AM
"An inordinate fondness for Beatles."
(Score: 1) by In hydraulis on Sunday August 02 2020, @11:40AM
Look up the genus Drosera.
(Score: 1) by agr on Friday July 31 2020, @09:10PM (1 child)
This should help settle any doubts that the Earth could have been seeded by bacteria from an earlier planet or moon. The case for life originating on our planet keeps getting weaker.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @09:27PM
I just hope that when you've finished spermiating your pans, you wash them.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 01 2020, @03:37AM
The more discoveries like these I hear about, the more optimistic it makes me for the chances of discovering life on other worlds. Surely there has to be something alive in the oceans of Europa or the geysers of Enceladus.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @12:35PM
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OR
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The TRUE BEAUTY of SATANIST FUCKS like YOU (antigod assholes)? TRUTH & FACT DESTROYS LIBELOUS DEVILS LIKE YOU - just like I did you & OTHER AHOLES who doubted what I wrote on what is NOW PROVEN TRUE by DOCTORS, admitted in mainstream media etc. (as I showed in those links' exchanges above easily) & especially LATELY by DOZENS of doctors (I have proof from pros - NOT LIBEL like you did to me PUBLICLY & I can still FRY YOU FOR IT FUCKER, live in fear fuck) MINUS any psych pros backing you.
SAY 1 THING, YOU STINKING LIBELOUS FUCK & I will CONTINUE LEVELLING YOU PUBLICLY with facts - not libel as you tried on me, stupid "Marissa von DUMBO", lol - please, say 1 thing & the BEATING on you, PUBLICLY will continue in this thread where you will have a HELL of a TIME "downmod burying it" via downmod brigades doubtless ONLY yourself via multiple sockpuppet accounts etc. (downodding to HIDE it? FORGET IT vs. me - everyone sees you @ it now, lol - thanks, just as I SAID "your kind", demonic SWINE/antigod LOSERS, always do).
WHY SHOULD YOU FEAR LIBELING ME PROJECTING IT NOW, TRYING TO HIDE IT TOO?
TOUGH HIDING YOU LIED about LIBELING ME, especially via INHERENTLY DAMAGING STATEMENTS libeling me as you did see GOLDWATER RULE below too fuckface CUNT you are (wikipedia proof https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985366#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] & you said "No jury or judge would back it" here https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985353#commentwrap? [soylentnews.org] Ok - like I said earlier here which you TRIED TO DOWNMOD HIDE as I knew you HAVE to (everyone sees it anyhow) - TRY ME FUCKER - say 1 thing you COWARDLY STUPID LITTLE FUCK & we'll SEE what happens to you, fuckface CUNT you are).
As I said "DO YOU WANT TO BE SUED" for breaking the GOLDWATER RULE? See here again https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985329#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] for YOUR (& everyone else's) reference of YOUR LIBEL of myself
APK
P.S.=> Oh, I am going to have a FIELDDAY on YOUR ASS fucker - catching you not ONLY IN LIES above, but also in the fact you are a GODLESS fucking LOSER - come on, say something, question the above where you LIED fucker ("it was not me saying it" but it WAS in those links calling me a nutcase essentially when YOU SAID YOU DID NOT (because it IS grounds for SUING THE LIFE OUT OF YOUR WORTHLESS ASS because your statements are NOT BACKED BY actual psychiatric pros in professional psychiatric grounds LIBELING ME)) - oh, you are NEVER going to LIVE THIS DOWN & believe you me - I am going to MAKE SURE you don't - live with your HUMILIATION loser... apk
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @01:19PM
See subject: So "that was NOT me posting" https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985641#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] which YES, you said when you LIBELED me publicly BEFORE it with YOU saying "So that's a "yes" to schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder and a "no" to "am taking meds for said disorder" LIBELING ME then...?" per YOUR https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=982854#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] you stupid pitiful FAKENAME fuck online LIAR piece of fucking SHIT?
OR
Was it when I GOT YOUR REAL NAME & found you are a satanist/anti-god HERE https://redeeminggod.com/sermons/luke/luke_7_36-50/#comment-269796 [redeeminggod.com] also which most ALL you "LEFTIST" LOSER weirdos usually are (which YES, in THIS other exchange "Why do you assume that you finding discussion threads on other sites with me in them will scare me?" quoted from https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=38720&page=1&cid=1028402#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] you DID admit FINALLY to saying it was you - ESPECIALLY AFTER dozens of doctors RECENTLY seconded me on Hydroxychloroquin + Zinc (& Vitamin D3 imo along w/ other things I noted that are anti-viral + antibacterial like RAW GARLIC too)).
Do me a favor - DENY ANY OF THOSE, please & I will continue PROVING YOU ARE A SHITBAG LOSER, devil... as I already DID here https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=38720&page=1&cid=1028211#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
The TRUE BEAUTY of SATANIST FUCKS like YOU (antigod assholes)? TRUTH & FACT DESTROYS LIBELOUS DEVILS LIKE YOU - just like I did you & OTHER AHOLES who doubted what I wrote on what is NOW PROVEN TRUE by DOCTORS, admitted in mainstream media etc. (as I showed in those links' exchanges above easily) & especially LATELY by DOZENS of doctors (I have proof from pros - NOT LIBEL like you did to me PUBLICLY & I can still FRY YOU FOR IT FUCKER, live in fear fuck) MINUS any psych pros backing you.
SAY 1 THING, YOU STINKING LIBELOUS FUCK & I will CONTINUE LEVELLING YOU PUBLICLY with facts - not libel as you tried on me, stupid "Marissa von DUMBO", lol - please, say 1 thing & the BEATING on you, PUBLICLY will continue in this thread where you will have a HELL of a TIME "downmod burying it" via downmod brigades doubtless ONLY yourself via multiple sockpuppet accounts etc. (downodding to HIDE it? FORGET IT vs. me - everyone sees you @ it now, lol - thanks, just as I SAID "your kind", demonic SWINE/antigod LOSERS, always do).
WHY SHOULD YOU FEAR LIBELING ME PROJECTING IT NOW, TRYING TO HIDE IT TOO?
TOUGH HIDING YOU LIED about LIBELING ME, especially via INHERENTLY DAMAGING STATEMENTS libeling me as you did see GOLDWATER RULE below too fuckface CUNT you are (wikipedia proof https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985366#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] & you said "No jury or judge would back it" here https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985353#commentwrap? [soylentnews.org] Ok - like I said earlier here which you TRIED TO DOWNMOD HIDE as I knew you HAVE to (everyone sees it anyhow) - TRY ME FUCKER - say 1 thing you COWARDLY STUPID LITTLE FUCK & we'll SEE what happens to you, fuckface CUNT you are).
As I said "DO YOU WANT TO BE SUED" for breaking the GOLDWATER RULE? See here again https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985329#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] for YOUR (& everyone else's) reference of YOUR LIBEL of myself
APK
P.S.=> Oh, I am going to have a FIELDDAY on YOUR ASS fucker - catching you not ONLY IN LIES above, but also in the fact you are a GODLESS fucking LOSER - come on, say something, question the above where you LIED fucker ("it was not me saying it" but it WAS in those links calling me a nutcase essentially when YOU SAID YOU DID NOT (because it IS grounds for SUING THE LIFE OUT OF YOUR WORTHLESS ASS because your statements are NOT BACKED BY actual psychiatric pros in professional psychiatric grounds LIBELING ME)) - oh, you are NEVER going to LIVE THIS DOWN & believe you me - I am going to MAKE SURE you don't - live with your HUMILIATION loser... apk
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @12:30AM
Marissa Van Eck FAKENAME CUNT Azuma Hazuki: So "that was NOT me posting" https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985641#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] which YES, you said when you LIBELED me publicly BEFORE it with YOU saying "So that's a "yes" to schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder and a "no" to "am taking meds for said disorder" LIBELING ME then...?" per YOUR https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=982854#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] you stupid pitiful FAKENAME fuck online LIAR piece of fucking SHIT?
OR
Was it when I GOT YOUR REAL NAME & found you are a satanist/anti-god HERE https://redeeminggod.com/sermons/luke/luke_7_36-50/#comment-269796 [redeeminggod.com] also which most ALL you "LEFTIST" LOSER weirdos usually are (which YES, in THIS other exchange "Why do you assume that you finding discussion threads on other sites with me in them will scare me?" quoted from https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=38720&page=1&cid=1028402#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] you DID admit FINALLY to saying it was you - ESPECIALLY AFTER dozens of doctors RECENTLY seconded me on Hydroxychloroquin + Zinc (& Vitamin D3 imo along w/ other things I noted that are anti-viral + antibacterial like RAW GARLIC too)).
Do me a favor - DENY ANY OF THOSE, please & I will continue PROVING YOU ARE A SHITBAG LOSER, devil... as I already DID here https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=38720&page=1&cid=1028211#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
The TRUE BEAUTY of SATANIST FUCKS like YOU (antigod assholes)? TRUTH & FACT DESTROYS LIBELOUS DEVILS LIKE YOU - just like I did you & OTHER AHOLES who doubted what I wrote on what is NOW PROVEN TRUE by DOCTORS, admitted in mainstream media etc. (as I showed in those links' exchanges above easily) & especially LATELY by DOZENS of doctors (I have proof from pros - NOT LIBEL like you did to me PUBLICLY & I can still FRY YOU FOR IT FUCKER, live in fear fuck) MINUS any psych pros backing you.
SAY 1 THING, YOU STINKING LIBELOUS FUCK & I will CONTINUE LEVELLING YOU PUBLICLY with facts - not libel as you tried on me, stupid "Marissa von DUMBO", lol - please, say 1 thing & the BEATING on you, PUBLICLY will continue in this thread where you will have a HELL of a TIME "downmod burying it" via downmod brigades doubtless ONLY yourself via multiple sockpuppet accounts etc. (downodding to HIDE it? FORGET IT vs. me - everyone sees you @ it now, lol - thanks, just as I SAID "your kind", demonic SWINE/antigod LOSERS, always do).
WHY SHOULD YOU FEAR LIBELING ME PROJECTING IT NOW, TRYING TO HIDE IT TOO?
TOUGH HIDING YOU LIED about LIBELING ME, especially via INHERENTLY DAMAGING STATEMENTS libeling me as you did see GOLDWATER RULE below too fuckface CUNT you are (wikipedia proof https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985366#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] & you said "No jury or judge would back it" here https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985353#commentwrap? [soylentnews.org] Ok - like I said earlier here which you TRIED TO DOWNMOD HIDE as I knew you HAVE to (everyone sees it anyhow) - TRY ME FUCKER - say 1 thing you COWARDLY STUPID LITTLE FUCK & we'll SEE what happens to you, fuckface CUNT you are).
As I said "DO YOU WANT TO BE SUED" for breaking the GOLDWATER RULE? See here again https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985329#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] for YOUR (& everyone else's) reference of YOUR LIBEL of myself
APK
P.S.=> Oh, I am going to have a FIELDDAY on YOUR ASS fucker - catching you not ONLY IN LIES above, but also in the fact you are a GODLESS fucking LOSER - come on, say something, question the above where you LIED fucker ("it was not me saying it" but it WAS in those links calling me a nutcase essentially when YOU SAID YOU DID NOT (because it IS grounds for SUING THE LIFE OUT OF YOUR WORTHLESS ASS because your statements are NOT BACKED BY actual psychiatric pros in professional psychiatric grounds LIBELING ME)) - oh, you are NEVER going to LIVE THIS DOWN & believe you me - I am going to MAKE SURE you don't - live with your HUMILIATION loser... apk