[shadowgovernment]

“So, hey, for an algae cell that expects to be around for a few months why does it need a cellwall that lasts a quarter billion years?”
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That's his make work project for useless Scientists who get grants to study the obvious or best scam going: find stuff so small, so distant, so long ago, that you can pretty much make up what you want and get published.
As I said, a great scam, brought to us by the people who thought up Man Made Global warming..
Tom Edison, Bell, and such would have a great laugh at what gets passed off as science today.

[BlazingArizona]

That's his make work project for useless Scientists who get grants to study the obvious or best scam going: find stuff so small, so distant, so long ago, that you can pretty much make up what you want and get published.

This finding is an important breakthrough for two reasons. Because salt beds are so plentiful on Earth, finding ancient DNA in it will tell us a lot more about the history of life than we can discover from fossils.

AND...salt also appears to be common on Mars. Examining that salt will tell us whether life ever existed there.

[allmendream]

Cellulose is the most common biopolymer on the planet. It is a string of sugar molecules, but unlike starch (readily digestible by humans) where the sugar molecules are stacked up in a row, cellulose has them put together up, down, up, down, up, down, etc.

It isn't that cellulose needs to last a quarter of a billion years, and near any oxygen it wouldn't. It is just that it CAN last many millions of years if kept away from reactive elements.

The cellulose is hardly surprising, it is the DNA that is ‘too cool for school’.