Comments on: Two roundworms return to life after being frozen for almost 42,000 years https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-roundworms-return-to-life-after-being-frozen-for-almost-42000-years/ Sat, 28 Jul 2018 05:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robert Pratt https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-roundworms-return-to-life-after-being-frozen-for-almost-42000-years/#comment-1056644 Sat, 28 Jul 2018 05:02:56 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52881#comment-1056644 And now if they could just get signs of life from those last few Soviet leaders…

]]> By: wodun https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-roundworms-return-to-life-after-being-frozen-for-almost-42000-years/#comment-1056630 Sat, 28 Jul 2018 01:09:14 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52881#comment-1056630 So this makes them the oldest creatures alive on the planet that we know of.

]]> By: Localfluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-roundworms-return-to-life-after-being-frozen-for-almost-42000-years/#comment-1056603 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:44:52 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52881#comment-1056603 And it might say something about their ability to survive an interplanetary trip inside of an asteroid ejected by a major impact.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-roundworms-return-to-life-after-being-frozen-for-almost-42000-years/#comment-1056597 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:21:59 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52881#comment-1056597 (the link at bfskinner dot org doesn’t work)

see:
“Project Orcon”
[ORganic CONtrol]
https://youtu.be/sv5W6CMOdos
2:59

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-roundworms-return-to-life-after-being-frozen-for-almost-42000-years/#comment-1056595 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:16:58 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52881#comment-1056595 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.”

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-roundworms-return-to-life-after-being-frozen-for-almost-42000-years/#comment-1056593 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:12:28 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52881#comment-1056593 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

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-roundworms-return-to-life-after-being-frozen-for-almost-42000-years/#comment-1056583 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:27:44 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52881#comment-1056583 (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

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-roundworms-return-to-life-after-being-frozen-for-almost-42000-years/#comment-1056580 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:46:51 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52881#comment-1056580 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)

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