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Re: A N T H R A X - they aren't making this stuff in caves in Afghanistan
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 16 Oct 2001 01:17:01 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher Tracey writes:
> Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > Thanks for the cite. Does anyone know if this stuff keeps for 10 years in
> > > powder form? Bacteria are quite resilient but 10 years is an aw'fly long time.
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> > The powder isn't bacteria. The powder is *spores*. And spores
> > keep a long, long, long time--live spores nearly 8,000 years old
> > have been pulled from ice cores in the last decade or so.
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> At a California university researchers have uncovered living bacteria
> spores (encased in amber?) up to 135 millions years old. Incredible.
Wow. Like there aren't enough problems in the world already.
Just what we need...dinosaur cooties. And I felt bad when
they disinterred those Spanish Flu victims in '99...
best
LFB
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