Frozen Species Comes Back to Life? Maybe We Can Too
Nematodes from 42 thousand years ago have come back to life.
They were discovered near the Arctic, and were perfectly frozen by the intense conditions of the environment. Now that they’re wriggling about, we may have just discovered a way to Time Travel. For these worms are an example of preserving life through cooling a body to the point of icy petrification. This is called cryogenics- a hot topic since the myth of Walt Disney’s having his own body frozen.
We found Nematodes that are the oldest living things that we know of. What other dormant species could there be? Trapped, but waiting to be found and freed? Woolly Mammoths were alive a similar length of time ago. Perhaps a few of those lovely, furry beasts are still scattered around, and it’s just a matter of time before we release them from their frozen mounds too. On a more serious note, this discovery has serious implications for science and human life longevity, and even tourism.
We’ve all thought about what it would be like to wake up in the Future.
Maybe we’d choose to go hundreds of years into the Future, or maybe thousands… the important bit is that it may just be a reality now. If multi-cellular organisms can survive in a frozen state for that long, perhaps we can too.
If you’re unhappy or bored with life in your current Time, just step into a machine, enjoy a brief chilly blast before falling asleep, and then step out. Surrounding you is the vistas of an utterly unrecognizable world. Imagine the cities, the tech, the expansions of Space and Cosmic Travel…. the clothes, the culture, the language. All twisted and transformed by the peculiar contortions of Time.
Today, we can fly across the globe. While space travel is still developing and expensive, Time Travel may be at your doorstep. Just as long as you don’t mind taking a one way tickets.
Give a warm thanks to the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science. A mouth full, I know, but these researchers may have completed one of the most fantastic discoveries of all time.
