Friday, February 03, 2012

Fwd: The lake . . .

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From: XXXX
Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:48 AM
Subject: The lake . . .
To: John Sokol <john.sokol@gmail.com>


So what would happen if someone were to find an entire huge lake
filled with germs and bacteria and viruses from 14 million years ago,
organisms against which no human has any kind of resistance because we
didn't exist 14 million years ago.  And what if those deadly germs,
bacteria, viruses were released into our world?  We're about to find
out:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/lake-vostok-drilling/

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