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Re:Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from ben... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:59AM (#25832166)
At those timescales you'd think they would have ceased to exist due to atomic half-life or radiation or something.
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Re:Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from ben... by nkrisc on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:56AM (#25833005)
Only if they were primarily made up of radioactive isotopes. Ask the carbon-12 in them should remain stable.
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