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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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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

those only infect Windows 3.0 on i486

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 44 points 10 months ago

This is one of those headlines that feels like it should be in the opening montage of a disaster movie.

[-] curry@programming.dev 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We've got the perfect global pandemic movie post-credits section.

  • Accelerating climate change and also the denial
  • Economic recession and increasing wealth gap
  • Myopic leadership both in government and corporate, rise of fascism
  • Misinformation campaigns, science and history denial becoming fashionable
  • Harambe

We're truly fucked.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 36 points 10 months ago

Cool we were running out of new ones.

[-] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago
[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

time to get reacqaaaaainted

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

new meaning to retrovirus

[-] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago

So they are "retro" viruses

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

Bringing back the classics!

[-] wafflez@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

These viruses used to be so cool back in the day

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

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

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

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

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Good point, launch the frozen demon core into the sun

[-] notastatist@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago

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

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

It's cool covid prepped us to do nothing, lose, and declare victory between coughs. We got this 💪

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago
[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 points 10 months ago

Ancient viruses?! We’re all gonna die!

Tap for spoilerMost viruses are completely harmless to humans. There are millions of species, of which only a few hundred are medically significant. I doubt these frozen viruses will have any noticeable impact on anything.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

True, but all it takes is one.

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

The fun is just starting. Only a matter of time until the glaciers melt even more and release untold hell upon us!

[-] Skoobie@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Oooh oooh! I remember this X Files episode!

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 10 months ago

Great episode. Also, the movie The Thaw.

[-] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

So that Zombie apocalypse could still happen.

[-] Zdvarko@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Just remember the 33 rules of zombie survival

[-] Gremour@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago
[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I looked up zombie apocalypse rule 34. I am very excited for this zombie apocalypse to get started.

[-] Kintarian@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

So, the Andromeda Strain was a documentary?

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 7 points 10 months ago

There's a voice inside me that says, "Do it."

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Bring lemonade.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Can't wait for us to figure out one of them is still virulent, and it's out in the world now being passed around.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago

Well, they were discovered in China, so it won’t take long, but they won’t tell anyone until it’s been spread to other countries.

[-] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Leave. Them. Alone.

I mean …

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

For the love of god, DON’T!

[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

There is no god, so I'll just go ahead then.

[-] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 2 points 10 months ago

So, when do we start building robots to preserve humanity?

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