they'll prolly think everything is okydoky till one day it stands up on it's hind legs and grabs them by the throat...
Posted on 07/11/2012 1:21:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
they'll prolly think everything is okydoky till one day it stands up on it's hind legs and grabs them by the throat...
Patiently it waited, the protoplasmic entity watched the bustling technicians scurry around the room.
Waiting for one to get close enough...
Exactly what I was thinking. How did they determine this
gene was 500 million years old? Cause it was found in
presently existing bacteria which are SUPPOSEDLY very old?
Did they find a bacteria with a time clock in it that read
500 million years, buried under sedimentary rock?
It also appears that the epigenetic mechanisms involved
in genome influence change also. So what does that tell
you about how the gene mutates? Do genes mutate around
a “successful” sequence? (i.e. anything that goes outside
that sequence is harmful to the organisms survival). I.e.
it mutates within a “shere of successful” sequences and not
outside it.
anyway, as always, many other questions.
Yup a very bad bug in its own right.
Everything had to start somewhere.
I have long thought this was a rather cool idea.
If you could get a bacteria to grow in ‘Martian’ conditions - the question would no longer be “Is there or was there ever life on Mars”; it would be “Do we want there to be life on Mars?”.
Most life forms grow rather well in poop.
No mask or gloves. It must be harmless. (/s maybe)
Considering it 'evolved' a little differently than they thought it would, maybe their best guess wasn't on the money either.
The REALLY interesting point is that no matter what the conjured up to start with (whether they were correct or not), it seemed to figure out what to do to adapt.
Nah, yer’ confusin Georgia Tech with the
Paleolithic Monstrosity of University of Georgia
Where the E. Coli have further devolved into Faculty an Students.
The Boosters are devolved Rickettsia, an intracellular parasite
/Georgia Tech Alumnus
Just what we need—more coliform variants. Do these people have functioning cerebral cortices?
Ready for what?
Thank you for my first lol of the day!
Took a little longer than expected, but I see that Helen Thomas finally showed up.
“Hold muh flask and watch this!” moment...............
Thank you for my second huge lol of the day!
And that isn’t even news since it (what ever the heck it is) was done in 2008.
absolutely Gott verdamn right!!! Summoning the Master
Call forth his form most vile
Champing mass of questing flesh
Protoplasmic pile
Ancient hunger, never filled
Until the universe is killed
The endless host of merging soul
That's sucked into the feeding hole
Welcome!
YIKES!
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