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Re:Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake by foamclutching on Friday January 18, 2019 @12:15PM (#18940815)
I'm curious about those tartigrades. Will the scientists put them in the water and bring them back to life? As far as I know about tartigrades, once immersed in water, the body returns to a normal metabolic state over the course of a few hours, even though they died hundreds of years ago.
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Re:Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake by luhn on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:23PM (#18941452)
The current record for tartigrade revival is 30 years. These recently found ones are many thousands of years, I think revival is unlikely.
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Re:Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake by gnulinux on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:24PM (#18942697)
Why is revival after 30 years of freeze an easier problem than revival after 2000 years? Entropy?
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Re:Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake by rebuilder on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:01PM (#18943033)
I thought they were found in water?
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