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Wakening the long-dormant virus serves as a warning that unknown pathogens entombed in frozen soil may be roused by global warming, they said.
Dubbed Pithovirus sibericum, the virus was found in a 30-metre (98-foot) -deep sample of permanently frozen soil taken from coastal tundra in Chukotka, near the East Siberia Sea, where the average annual temperature is minus 13.4 degrees Celsius (7.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
The team thawed the virus and watched it replicate in a culture in a petri dish, where it infected a simple single-cell organism called an amoeba.
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[IMG]http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/2014/13-20670-large1.jpg[/IMG]
[url]http://phys.org/news/2014-03-year-old-virus-permafrost-reborn.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;44129660]It begins.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Unlike the flu virus, though, P. sibericum is harmless to humans and animals, for it only infects a type of amoeba called Acanthamoeba, the researchers said.[/QUOTE]
The first lies of the epidemic.
Let's hope it isn't Rage or the Thing. It's probably just something that'll make your eyes bleed.
[madagascar joke]
Sounds like a movie.
Bring out the flamethrowers. Time to give this time-travelling Siberian scum a warm welcome to the XXI century
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;44129678]The first lies of the epidemic.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but Acanthamoeba can infect humans. They cause the diseases [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratitis"]Keratitis[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis"]Encephalitis[/URL], which are awful.
[QUOTE=leshrec1;44129688][madagascar joke][/QUOTE]
welp time to move to madagascar
For some reason, I read the thread title as 30,000 year old virgin, not virus. No idea what the fuck made me read it like that.
[QUOTE=ironman17;44129683]Let's hope it isn't Rage or the Thing. It's probably just something that'll make your eyes bleed.[/QUOTE]
I severely doubt it's compatible with any newer organisms. It just wouldn't know how to infiltrate or trick new cell architecture since it basically skipped 30k years of co-evolution.
Tho it would make for a fun movie if people let their guard down because of it and then it turns out we all have a common backdoor this thing can access.
I want to see a video of the virus infecting an amoeba
Doubt it's possible to see the virus using an optical microscope though :(
[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;44129824]I severely doubt it's compatible with any newer organisms. It just wouldn't know how to infiltrate or trick new cell architecture since it basically skipped 30k years of co-evolution.
[/QUOTE]
So it's like Grandma trying to use a computer and then getting 1 Billion viruses and programs.
[QUOTE=Hiroto;44129798]For some reason, I read the thread title as 30,000 year old virgin, not virus. No idea what the fuck made me read it like that.[/QUOTE]
Maybe that's your subconscious reminding you to PRAISE THE EMPRAH.
[img]http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111122004912/warhammer40k/images/d/d0/Emperor_of_Mankind_by_genzoman.jpg[/img]
I'm praying for the many amoebas who might suffer from this plague.
MADAGASCAR HAS CLOSED IT'S BORDERS TO PREVENT INFECTION
[QUOTE=Hiroto;44129798]For some reason, I read the thread title as 30,000 year old virgin, not virus. No idea what the fuck made me read it like that.[/QUOTE]
if it was it was probably a time traveler from facepunch
[QUOTE=T553412;44129726]Bring out the flamethrowers. Time to give this time-travelling Siberian scum a warm welcome to the XXI century[/QUOTE]
But flamethrowers will just thaw out more frozen viruses in the permafrost!
[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;44129657][IMG]http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/2014/13-20670-large1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
so this is how photoshop's saran wrap filter spawned unto this realm
[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;44129824]I severely doubt it's compatible with any newer organisms. It just wouldn't know how to infiltrate or trick new cell architecture since it basically skipped 30k years of co-evolution.
Tho it would make for a fun movie if people let their guard down because of it and then it turns out we all have a common backdoor this thing can access.[/QUOTE]
Viruses have been known to jump massive evolutionary gaps, exceeding 30,000 years.
[QUOTE=ironman17;44129683]Let's hope it isn't Rage or the Thing. It's probably just something that'll make your eyes bleed.[/QUOTE]
if the Thing was a virus then god help us all
Welcome to the Walking Dead Real Life Edition
[QUOTE=leshrec1;44129688][madagascar joke][/QUOTE]
Not to worry. Madagascar hasn't opened back up from the last time.
Or the time before that.
microorganisms are so tough it's amazing.
I played enough Plague.inc to know where this is going :v:
[QUOTE=Hiroto;44129798]For some reason, I read the thread title as 30,000 year old virgin, not virus. No idea what the fuck made me read it like that.[/QUOTE]
The 30,000 Year Old Virgin
[img]http://www.shockingtimes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Skeleton.jpg[/img]
Seth Rogan's gonna' have a hard time with this one.
Ho boy, any natural resistance to it must have been dead and gone by now.
