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originally posted by: Scrutinizing
originally posted by: pteridine
Maybe only partially.
I suppose that would be enough, prove ability, integral to cognition. But, as the French may say, I don't know if it's "la place" for me to say how the Russians should do this, as they may opt to simply ask the worms to comment on the Hegelian Dialectic. But any such a test, demonstration, would not afford the worms a lot of wiggle room.
In August 2016, an outbreak of anthrax in Siberia sickened 72 people and took the life of a 12-year-old boy. Health officials pinpointed the outbreak to an unusual source. Abnormally high temperatures had thawed the corpses of long-dead reindeer and other animals. Some of these bodies may have been infected with anthrax, and as Wired explained, the soil in Siberia is normally much too cold to dig deep graves. “The disease from thawing human and animal remains can get into groundwater that people then drink,” Wired reported. Scientists are worried that as more permafrost thaws, especially in Siberia, there may be more outbreaks of long-dormant anthrax as burial grounds thaw.
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The fear is that the thawing will encourage greater excavation in the Arctic. Mining and other excavation projects will become more appealing as the region grows warmer. And these projects can put workers into contact with some very, very old bugs.
The threat is tiny. But it exists. The big lesson is that even viruses thought to be eradicated from Earth — like smallpox — may still lurk frozen, somewhere.
“We could actually catch a disease from a Neanderthal’s remains,” Claverie says. “Which is amazing.”
article talks about Doorway to the Underworld so found this link specifically about that - Its a massive sinkhole.
edit on 28-7-2018 by johnb because: sp and extra
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: TheJesuit
OK scientists, do you want super viruses? Because this is how you get super viruses.
All joking aside, I do wonder the possible ramifications from things like this.
originally posted by: pteridine
It is something of a di-lemma. They may well transform into something else but I'm only gaussing. The Russians are smooth operators and won't poisson the worms.