Giant Virus Resurrected from Permafrost After 30,000 Years

gypsyman

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http://news.yahoo.com/giant-virus-resurrected-permafrost-30-000-years-202120390.html

They say it only likes to blow up amoeba's.

"The team then took samples of this permafrost and put them in contact with amoebas (blob-like single-celled organisms) in Petri dishes. The researchers then waited to see what happened.

Some of the amoebas burst open and died. When the scientists investigated further, they found a virus had killed the amoebas."

Maybe this is how the real Walking Dead will start.
 

KeithTalent

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Haha, awesome. This is totally zombie movie shit. Bring on the apocalypse!

KT
 

Phoenix86

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Haha, awesome. This is totally zombie movie shit. Bring on the apocalypse!

KT

I know where this goes...

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BoomerD

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Yeah, but having a mechanism to easily kill amoebas is a good thing.

That depends...how easy will it be to kill/control the amoeba killing virus? Will it mutate into a human killing virus?
Will it wipe out the honey bees? Whales? Cattle?
Could that virus be what wiped out the mammoths and/or mastodons?
 

notposting

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I was thinking more like The Thing, warm it up out of the permafrost, what could go wrong?
 

dighn

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sweet

also, the fear mongering in the comments is both amusing and disappointing.