amazing to see that they're still alive to this day
once in the water where gigantic sea-monster like dinosaurs have swam
Yet another mystery of the deep discovered. What an awesome place.
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I'm curious. 86 million years is quite a bit of time. Wouldn't plate tectonics have made a significant change in the physical location of these colonies? Perhaps there's some sort of circulation in the sediments over millions and millions of years that gave them a small supply of nutrients?
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Although, the Pacific ocean (plates) has remained huge and vast for millions of years also, I really don't know how far these things may have shifted, if at all.
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This is what I do when things like this come up.
[QUOTE=OvB;36012486]Yet another mystery of the deep discovered. What an awesome place.
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I'm curious. 86 million years is quite a bit of time. Wouldn't plate tectonics have made a significant change in the physical location of these colonies? Perhaps there's some sort of circulation in the sediments over millions and millions of years that gave them a small supply of nutrients?
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Although, the Pacific ocean (plates) has remained huge and vast for millions of years also, I really don't know how far these things may have shifted, if at all.
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This is what I do when things like this come up.[/QUOTE]
Talking to yourself is the number one attribute of a genius scientist.
And then one of the handlers picks his noes and gets a virus that hasn't seen the light of day for thousands of years....
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;36013188]And then one of the handlers picks his noes and gets a virus that hasn't seen the light of day for thousands of years....[/QUOTE]
Oh noes.
86 million years old and still alive
how the fuck
[QUOTE=Murkat;36013485]86 million years old and still alive
how the fuck[/QUOTE]
Some seriously intense resource management.
Surely there are microbials on Mars if they can survive that.
God put 'em there.
To test our faith.
[quote]Opening the Sediment Core Hans Røy opens a sediment core.[/quote]
How informative.
[QUOTE=mac338;36013510]Surely there are microbials on Mars if they can survive that.[/QUOTE]
If there aren't I wonder if we can just put them there.
[QUOTE=mac338;36013510]Surely there are microbials on Mars if they can survive that.[/QUOTE]
didn't they discover microbes doing quite well for themselves in the desert that's got the closest conditions to Mars on Earth?
[QUOTE=Cone;36017070]didn't they discover microbes doing quite well for themselves in the desert that's got the closest conditions to Mars on Earth?[/QUOTE]
Microbes can survive in the vacuum of space.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;36013188]And then one of the handlers picks his noes and gets a virus that hasn't seen the light of day for thousands of years....[/QUOTE]
and we get
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/I_am_legend_teaser.jpg/220px-I_am_legend_teaser.jpg[/IMG]
win/win situation tbh
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