believe it or not:the scent of space

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Meteor shower tonight!

[Lemon Cheesecake]

100 million year old sea microbes still live!!

"After 101.5 million years in food-scarce conditions, the dormant microbes retained their abilities to stay alive, eat and divide. "
..."the researchers went looking for sediment samples from approximately 12,140 to 18,700 feet below sea level, during a 2010 Integrated Ocean Drilling Program expedition."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/world/an ... index.html

[Lemon Cheesecake]

"When scientists find microbial life thriving in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, it gives them hope that they may be able to find life on other planets.

Now, researchers have discovered billions of bacteria living in tiny cracks in volcanic rocks beneath the ocean floor, more than nine miles below the surface of the ocean and an additional 300 feet below the ocean floor, according to a new study published Thursday.
And they believe that similar tiny, clay-filled cracks in rocks on Mars or below its surface could be a similar hub for life."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/world/ea ... index.html

[galled]

I just hope they don't awaken the next pandemic or The Thing!

[npixelz]

That's pretty nifty.

Lol yeah

[MissAutumn]

It came from beneath the deep.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I would think it really means that the microbes are the same kind as 100 million years ago not the actual microbes themselves are 100 million years old.

[npixelz]

Spooooooky

Hmm, pawsibly

[Lemon Cheesecake]

But then there were the microbes brought up in the ice tests in the Arctic that they "revived"...

[npixelz]

Sounds pretty nICE! Though when I read that I was like SNOW way!

[Lemon Cheesecake]

haha...you are always a quick one npixelz!

I guess talking about old...look up at the sky at night!

[npixelz]

I try! I'm glad you didn't give me the cold shoulder over that one!

[Lemon Cheesecake]

shiver me timbers that will not happen!

[npixelz]

I hope naut(ical)!

[Lemon Cheesecake]

"Scientists find intact brain cells in skull of man killed in Vesuvius eruption almost 2000 years ago.

"The victim, who was found lying face-down on a wooden bed in a building thought to have been devoted to the worship of the Emperor Augustus, was around 25 years old at the time of his death, according to the researchers."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/europe/b ... index.html

[+] SPOILER

In a paper published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine, Petrone and his colleagues revealed that this shiny appearance was caused by the vitrification of the victim's brain due to intense heat followed by rapid cooling.
Speaking about this process, Petrone said: "The brain exposed to the hot volcanic ash must first have liquefied and then immediately turned into a glassy material by the rapid cooling of the volcanic ash deposit."
After subsequent analysis including the use of an electron microscope, the team found cells in the vitrified brain, which were "incredibly well preserved with a resolution that is impossible to find anywhere else," according to Petrone.
The researchers also found intact nerve cells in the spinal cord, which, like the brain, had been vitrified.
The latest findings were published in the American journal PLOS One.