Scientists accidentally resurrect an ancient evil
Posted by Matthew on Thursday February 24, 2005 @12:23AM
from the as-ye-freeze-so-shall-ye-thaw dept.
Matthew writes: Careless scientists, driven mad by their thirst for knowledge, have accidentally resurrected an ancient evil, thought frozen for all time, by drilling and melting arctic ice cores.
32,000 years ago, otherwise normal bacteria were frozen to death in the arctic wastes as the Earth plunged into a new ice age brought on by the hoary rites of the now extinct Ancient Ones. These self-same bacteria were recently re-animated in the laboratories of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
The zombie bacteria immediately began swimming and vibrating in a pattern that when amplified acoustically gave voice to an eerie cry: “neurons… neurons…”