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Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of these viruses are new to science.

With this discovery, the number of ancient viruses recovered from glaciers has grown fiftyfold.The viruses, gathered from a 1,000-foot ice core taken from the sprawling Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau, date back 41,000 years and span three major shifts from cold to warm.

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[–] BigDaddySlim 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Hey how about we put those the fuck back where they were and just make pretend viruses in Plague Inc. We don't need to unleash the ancient virus that'll make us shit our own brains out

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Put them back? Have you seen glaciers recently? They somehow don't like to stay frozen

[–] BigDaddySlim 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good point, launch the frozen demon core into the sun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Its just, that it would melt before going into outer space ..