Two roundworms return to life after being frozen for almost 42,000 years
Russian scientists have successfully brought two roundworms back to life after being frozen for almost 42,000 years.
Russian scientists said the two prehistoric worms, out of a group of about 300, are moving and eating after they came back to life in a lab at the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science in Moscow, the Siberian Times reported. “After being defrosted, the nematodes showed signs of life,” a report from the Russian scientists said, according to the Siberian Times.
One of the worms was found near the Alazeya River in 2015 and is believed to be about 41,700 years old, according to the study published in the Doklady Biological Sciences. They were found about 11.5 feet underground.
The other worm was found in 2002 in a fossil rodent burrow near the Kolyma River. These samples were taken from about 100 feet underground.
If confirmed, this result is not only astonishing, it has significant implications, as it suggests that the science fiction idea of freezing people for long interstellar flights might actually be possible, eventually.
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Russian scientists have successfully brought two roundworms back to life after being frozen for almost 42,000 years.
Russian scientists said the two prehistoric worms, out of a group of about 300, are moving and eating after they came back to life in a lab at the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science in Moscow, the Siberian Times reported. “After being defrosted, the nematodes showed signs of life,” a report from the Russian scientists said, according to the Siberian Times.
One of the worms was found near the Alazeya River in 2015 and is believed to be about 41,700 years old, according to the study published in the Doklady Biological Sciences. They were found about 11.5 feet underground.
The other worm was found in 2002 in a fossil rodent burrow near the Kolyma River. These samples were taken from about 100 feet underground.
If confirmed, this result is not only astonishing, it has significant implications, as it suggests that the science fiction idea of freezing people for long interstellar flights might actually be possible, eventually.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
From the people that brought us Trofim Lysenko, I’m doubting this, big time.
“Lysenko came to dominate Soviet biology with a 1948 speech—prepared in part by Stalin himself—in which Lysenko denounced Mendel and declared proponents of such science to be enemies of the people. Scientists who disagreed with Lysenko’s theories were purged—some were sent to the gulags while others simply disappeared.”
They have been making this sorta’ stuff up, since at least 1940.
“Experiments in the Revival of Organisms”
Techfilm Studio, Moscow 1940
https://youtu.be/ap1co5ZZHYE
19:32
(disturbing treatment of dogs)
(disturbing treatment of dogs)
What about The Dog Mine – where Comrade Woofski was expected to give his or her all for the Rodina (note the use of Pavlovian/Skinnerian methods in training)?
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dog+mine&&view=detail&mid=38AFFFF79891977CB31838AFFFF79891977CB318&&FORM=VRDGAR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog
Col Beausabre-
(Your knowledge of obscure factoids, is most impressive!)
Yowza! That is a new one on me! (Dog Mine & Anti-Tank Dog)
I’m actually trained in Skinnerian Behaviorism, although I’ve gotten more Cognitive over the years.
“Little Known Science Failures; Pavlov’s Cat”
https://d3qdvvkm3r2z1i.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1800x/6b9ffbf72458f4fd2d3cb995d92e8889/p/a/pavlovscat_newthumb.png
Look up the “Orcon Project,” aka Project Pigeon
https://www.bfskinner.org/project-pigeon/
“This silent video [link on page] shows the project Skinner worked on during World War Two. The problem was that before radar, pilots trying to hit enemy ships flew so close that they were often shot down. Skinner realized he could teach pigeons to guide missiles. Pigeons were trained to peck an image that would look like a ship as a missile approached. Pecks on the ship would steer the missile towards the ship. This video shows training the bird to peck a moving target and then at the end, the bird pecking at the ship.”
(the link at bfskinner dot org doesn’t work)
see:
“Project Orcon”
[ORganic CONtrol]
https://youtu.be/sv5W6CMOdos
2:59
And it might say something about their ability to survive an interplanetary trip inside of an asteroid ejected by a major impact.
So this makes them the oldest creatures alive on the planet that we know of.
And now if they could just get signs of life from those last few Soviet leaders…