What's happening in Siberia's thawing permafrost and Greenland's melting glaciers sounds borderline supernatural. Ancient viruses, bacteria, plants, and even animals have been cryogenically frozen there for millennia—and now, they are waking up.
I am getting just exhausted with the Global Warming nonsense. I see all manner of folks tout the latest "It's official! If you are under 30, you've never lived through a single month where the average global temperature was below average!!!" And I just want to smack them. Literally, for all the temperature station "manipulations" done to "rectify" the actual data, they still are claiming that global temperatures have risen.... less than 0.2 degrees Centigrade. And that's the HIGH estimate. Seriously. And we're supposed to be worked up about this?
...it sounds to me more like they recovered useable DNA samples
Absolutely possible. Tens of thousands-year-old DNA useable samples have been recovered from Neanderthal, homo sapiens, and Denisovans--at least useable enough to assay and outline "family" trees, and in some cases to trace human migration into and through Europe.
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I am just waiting for someone to discover that climate cycling is Nature's version of crop rotation, and beneficial to our ecosystem, generally.
Valerie
What's happening in Siberia's thawing permafrost and Greenland's melting glaciers sounds borderline supernatural. Ancient viruses, bacteria, plants, and even animals have been cryogenically frozen there for millennia—and now, they are waking up.
Sounds like a Hollywood movie. Heh.
Eric Hines
Get back to me when we can hunt mammoth again.
With period-authentic spears and cliffs.
Eric Hines
As if the giant holes in Siberia weren't sufficient proof that the Old Ones are returning...
Ragnarok is coming! But wasn't that a new ice age? Uh-oh.
I am getting just exhausted with the Global Warming nonsense. I see all manner of folks tout the latest "It's official! If you are under 30, you've never lived through a single month where the average global temperature was below average!!!" And I just want to smack them. Literally, for all the temperature station "manipulations" done to "rectify" the actual data, they still are claiming that global temperatures have risen.... less than 0.2 degrees Centigrade. And that's the HIGH estimate. Seriously. And we're supposed to be worked up about this?
"Sounds like a Hollywood movie. Heh."
Too much so- I don't trust Gizmodo- and the claim that someone "Hatched" 700 year old eggs from the bottom of a Minnesota Lake sounded to me like if it were true, it would have been all over the news. Following the link from Gizmodo, I don't think that's what happened- it sounds to me more like they recovered useable DNA samples, unless I'm misreading it, which is certainly possible. "Furthermore, phenotypic assays on the oldest resurrected metazoan genotypes (potentially as old as c. 700 years) indicate significant shifts in phosphorus utilisation rates compared to younger genotypes."
...it sounds to me more like they recovered useable DNA samples
Absolutely possible. Tens of thousands-year-old DNA useable samples have been recovered from Neanderthal, homo sapiens, and Denisovans--at least useable enough to assay and outline "family" trees, and in some cases to trace
human migration into and through Europe.
Eric Hines
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