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15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice
Posted on 8/10/21 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 8/10/21 at 5:23 pm
Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses, which survived because they had remained frozen, are unlike any viruses that have been cataloged to date.
Ohio State University
ScienceDaily
"The researchers analyzed ice cores taken in 2015 from the Guliya ice cap in western China. The cores are collected at high altitudes -- the summit of Guliya, where this ice originated, is 22,000 feet above sea level. The ice cores contain layers of ice that accumulate year after year, trapping whatever was in the atmosphere around them at the time each layer froze. Those layers create a timeline of sorts, which scientists have used to understand more about climate change, microbes, viruses and gases throughout history."
Some amazing stuff here.
Ohio State University
ScienceDaily
"The researchers analyzed ice cores taken in 2015 from the Guliya ice cap in western China. The cores are collected at high altitudes -- the summit of Guliya, where this ice originated, is 22,000 feet above sea level. The ice cores contain layers of ice that accumulate year after year, trapping whatever was in the atmosphere around them at the time each layer froze. Those layers create a timeline of sorts, which scientists have used to understand more about climate change, microbes, viruses and gases throughout history."
Some amazing stuff here.
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Posted on 8/10/21 at 6:09 pm to Trumansfangs
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have found viruses
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western China
Checks out
Posted on 8/10/21 at 6:44 pm to Trumansfangs
Was it covid01?
Posted on 8/10/21 at 7:40 pm to Trumansfangs
quote:pretty sure I’ve seen this one before
15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice
Posted on 8/11/21 at 5:57 am to Trumansfangs
Move over Delta. The Tibetan variant will finish the job.
Posted on 8/11/21 at 6:35 am to Animal
Send them to Wuhan for study. Nothing escapes that facility. 
Posted on 8/11/21 at 8:15 am to HoboDickCheese
The first remake of The Thing in 1982 was terrifying. One of my all time favorite monster movies.
Posted on 8/11/21 at 8:41 am to Trumansfangs
I imagine viruses will hang on, somehow, some way, until the sun expands and destroys the Earth. Them and the tardigrades. And I suspect the dreaded waterbears will find some way to survive even that.
Posted on 8/12/21 at 3:26 am to Trumansfangs
Thanks for sharing. I'm curious what we'll be exposed to as ice continues to melt at levels not seen since the last Ice Age.
Posted on 8/12/21 at 8:27 am to starkvingrad
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Thanks for sharing. I'm curious what we'll be exposed to as ice continues to melt at levels not seen since the last Ice Age.
My concern would be methane locked up in the permafrost. But some sort of "super bug" virus is certainly possible. Doubtful, but possible.
Posted on 8/12/21 at 1:27 pm to Trumansfangs
[quote]15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice[/quote.
Meh
Meh
This post was edited on 8/15/21 at 12:36 am
Posted on 8/12/21 at 1:28 pm to Trumansfangs
Sorry
This post was edited on 8/15/21 at 12:37 am
Posted on 8/12/21 at 2:50 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Simmer down- you're riled up this afternoon.
Must be a good batch of meth in the Arkansas Delta this August
Must be a good batch of meth in the Arkansas Delta this August
Posted on 8/13/21 at 8:17 pm to Arksulli
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I imagine viruses will hang on, somehow, some way, until the sun expands and destroys the Earth. Them and the tardigrades. And I suspect the dreaded waterbears will find some way to survive even that.
Any species that can sporulate probably has specimens traveling out of the solar system as we write. Tardigrades go into stasis in space and can travel along with spores on interstellar routes.
When asteroids strike the earth, their impacts launch untold quantities of water bears and sporulating plants, algae, protozoa, bacteria and fungi into space. Some will hit the other planets and moons or dive into the sun but most be blasted to the far reaches of the solar system, no doubt aided by the solar wind. Life started on earth almost 4 billion years so it has had plenty of time to travel to stars several light years from earth.
The current search for life on Mars, the Perseverance mission, will probably find living organisms there. They likely will not be alien, however. Analysis of their chemical construction will almost assuredly show that they are earthlings that have adapted to Martian conditions.
The same can be said for Europa, Enceladus and other moons with oceans. Even Proxima B and any agreeable planets and moons circling the stars Alpha Centauri A and B may have been colonized long ago by terrestrial organisms that were blown into space by an asteroid impact.
Posted on 8/13/21 at 8:25 pm to Kentucker
or
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that they are familiar travelers that have adapted to Martian conditions
Posted on 8/27/21 at 12:42 pm to awestruck
Posted on 8/27/21 at 8:23 pm to Trumansfangs
Based on the way society has acted the first virus was discovered 18 months, and this article is fake.
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:08 am to Trumansfangs
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survived because they had remained frozen
bring them home and warm them up.
Posted on 1/22/24 at 1:01 pm to Armymann50
Who cares? All that crap came across the southern border two years ago .....
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