Freakin’ Terrific

Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years in Ice
After more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken. The long-lasting bacteria may hold clues to what life forms might exist on other planets.

You know…not EVERYTHING in ice needs to be ‘woken up’. The bitch is in telling which one.

categories Fun | | datetime June 15, 2009 10:24 pm

9 Responses to “Freakin’ Terrific”

  1. JeffS says:
    June 15, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    Is that a photo of Mr. Bingley during his puberty?

  2. JeffS says:
    June 15, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    Is that a photo of Mr. Bingley during his puberty?

  3. Gunslinger says:
    June 16, 2009 at 5:54 am

    Heh. I was thinking along the same lines except it was the more modern thing.

  4. tree hugging sister says:
    June 16, 2009 at 8:09 am

    I’m a retro kinda gal, Guns.

  5. nightfly says:
    June 16, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Uhm…. isn’t this how the Blob started? Re-freeze it!

  6. mojo says:
    June 16, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    Can we just shoot the annoyingly naive scientist-guy now? Before he starts feeding the goddamn thing, I mean.

  7. tree hugging sister says:
    June 16, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    And then what happens? PETA has a shit because he starved the microbe and it eats Manhattan.

  8. Gary from Jersey says:
    June 16, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    And they needed to wake this thing up because ….?

  9. tree hugging sister says:
    June 16, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    Because it was just the CUTEST little frozen, ancient ass microbe EHvah.

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