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on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:00AM
from the but-does-it-still-taste-fresh dept.
from the but-does-it-still-taste-fresh dept.
hubie writes:
"A group at the Institut de Microbiologie de la Mediterranee, Aix Marseille Universite, revived a "giant" virus that had been embedded in permafrost for approximately 30,000 years. The virus was found in the tundra near East Siberia and is thus named Pithovirus sibericum. It is the latest entry in the class of large viruses called Megaviridae, which are so large that they are visible under an ordinary optical microscope:
P. sibericum is, on the scale of viruses, a giant - it has 500 genes, whereas the influenza virus has only eight.
This particular virus is harmless to humans and animals, but it demonstrates there could be unknown health repercussions as more permafrost thaws as the result of a warming planet."
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(Score: 3) by edIII on Tuesday March 04 2014, @07:04PM
I abso-fucking-lutely refuse to participate in their full-retard re-branding of their image! :)
Honestly. It's ridiculous. Were they trying to be "hip" and "with it" or "down with the peeps"?
Not that it matters all that much. They have nothing really worth watching anymore and their execs totally screwed the pooch with overlays that make it impossible to watch.
I think I stopped watching them even before the rebranding, and that was really just for Stargate franchises. Of which I torrented to get rid of those overlays, that honest to god, actually interfered. There was more than one where the main actor in the scene was pointing towards something or somebody, and that happened to be an obnoxious moving advert for Purely Scientific Ghost Hunters.
When they started making stuff like giant vampiric ill-tempered zombie beavers I realized it was like playing on an elementary school playground. Fun for a minute, and then you ask yourself, "What the fuck am I doing? I'm an adult dammit".
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.