It sounds like cryonics is working, at least for microbes. But could any humans now alive have resistance to ancient organisms?
Rational Review carried a link to this story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526460,00.html
“After more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken. … The new bacteria species was found nearly 2 miles (3 km) beneath a Greenland glacier, where temperatures can dip well below freezing, pressure soars, and food and oxygen are scarce. ‘We don’t know what state they were in,’ said study team member Jean Brenchley of Pennsylvania State University. ‘They could’ve been dormant, or they could’ve been slowly metabolizing, but we don’t know for sure.’”
It is yet another interesting possibility against which humans should prepare to protect ourselves. Where is our Lifeboat?
