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The bugs that came in from the cold
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by Bluto Blutarsky | September 26, 2007 at 01:46 pm
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Locked in ice for millions of years, Antarctic bacteria are thawing – and they're alive. So will a prehistoric plague be swimming in a sea near you?
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at 13:54 on September 26th, 2007
That may only be the tip of the proverbial iceberg...
Jokes aside, though, it's fascinating how sci-fi/horror is usually based firmly in the things going on around us right now: should some of these deep-freeze bugs still be virulent, our immune systems' defense against them may be about as useful as our appendices...