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I for one welcome our glass-embedded overl...
wait a minute. Already captured in glass?
HAH, YOU TINY MISERABLE CREATURE - TREMBLE BEFORE ME, FOR I'VE GOT YOU IN MY POWER!!!
Rock-boffins have used data from satellites to scope out impact-crater glass on Mars for a glimpse into its past, based on the theory that glass formed during hypervelocity happenings can encapsulate and preserve earthly bio-signatures. A study lead by Brown University's Peter Schultz found that organic matter, including plant …
We were all on Mars (Eww)
Everybody had matching helms (Eww)
Somebody went under the dome (Eww)
And there they saw a rock (Eww)
It wasn't a rock (Eww)
Was a rock boffin! (Eww)
Aaaah Rock boffin
Aaaah Rock boffin
Rock bof-fuh-fin!
Rock bof-fuh-fin!
(the pub will never know, or want to know, what hit it)
"A study lead by Brown University's Peter Schultz found that organic matter, including plant matter, was entombed by molten glass formed in asteroid and comet impacts occurring millions of years ago in Argentina."
Interesting, H.P. Lovecraft used Brown University as the inspiration for the Miskatonic University, maybe the stars are right?
Even entombed in glass DNA still continues to degrade and break down. Jurassic park is and pretty much always will be scifi, with emphasis on the fi. In the lab dna is kept at -20C, though if it is genomic in scale and you do not want it fragmented you might keep it at 4C. Though not for tens of millions of years. I know we are pushing ancient DNA ages backwards but the quality you get back is not good, it is better than nowt but compared to fresh sample sequencing and DNA assembly it is very, vary hard to do. Not all fresh genomes are easy either, our youngest has been trying assemble a mollusc genome and it is proving anything but easy.
"Rock-boffins have used data from satellites to scope out impact-crater glass on Mars for a glimpse into its past, based on the theory that glass formed during hypervelocity happenings can encapsulate and preserve earthly bio-signatures."
At first I thought they were claiming that glass on Mars preserved Earthly biosignatures. Say wha'???