Giant Virus Resurrected from Permafrost After 30,000 Years

[gypsyman]

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.

 

[waggy]

christ..lol

 

[KeithTalent]

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

KT

 

[Phoenix86]

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

KT

I know where this goes...

 

[Jaepheth]

Some things are best left buried and forgotten

 

[Mai72]

 

[Jodell88]

We're gonna die!

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I for one welcome our new amoeba-killing giant virus overlords.

 

[Kadarin]

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

 

[Ruptga]

Some things are best left buried and forgotten

Wrong pole.

 

[BoomerD]

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?

 

[techs]

Could be what killed the gray aliens from Prometheus.

 

[Howard]

Storyline for Resident Evil 7.

 

[JulesMaximus]

 

[Bateluer]

Sounds like the plotline for a biological horror movie.

 

[gypsyman]

Andromeda strain?

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Andromeda strain?

I wish, we could tame it with the weather. BTW, didn't the X-Files TV series hit on this aspect? I faintly remember an episode.

 

[BladeVenom]

 

[notposting]

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

 

[Oceanas]

 

[dighn]

sweet

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

 

[Naer]

Das it mane

 

[Gibsons]

kids stuff compared to the Phoenix Virus.
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/feb/phoenix-virus-retrovirus-dna#.UxWrUYVXM2w

 

[jhu]

Could be what killed the gray aliens from Prometheus.

What killed the gray aliens was the horrible story line.

 

[Genx87]

So this is how the X-Files ends.