And so it begins...

ppp

Scientists have revived primitive life forms retrieved from frozen ground in the Antarctic and believed to be up to eight million years old.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,282 ... 93,00.html

That it could be revived showed the bacteria was not dead, but had been dormant since a time when conditions were very different in the Antarctic.

"The colony was not active, but they may have just been shut down waiting for conditions to come right again"

GrandMoff

Scientists have revived primitive life forms retrieved from frozen ground in the Antarctic and believed to be up to eight million years old.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,282 ... 93,00.html

That it could be revived showed the bacteria was not dead, but had been dormant since a time when conditions were very different in the Antarctic.

"The colony was not active, but they may have just been shut down waiting for conditions to come right again"

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,and with strange aeons even death may die."

ppp

...until the stars are right again.