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Of course she would be able to communicate. Cats and dogs can communicate to us.
Ok, communicate using complex language. She's not going to be picking up English at even a basic level.
I misread the title as "Woman frozen ..." and mentally prepared myself for some existentially shattering shit.
Indeed, if such a woman had been unfrozen, would she be too important of a scientific discovery to ever be allowed to live a normal human life again? Would she just be a research subject quarantined and experimented on for the rest of her days?
I misread the title as "Woman frozen ..." and mentally prepared myself for some existentially shattering shit.
Indeed, if such a woman had been unfrozen, would she be too important of a scientific discovery to ever be allowed to live a normal human life again? Would she just be a research subject quarantined and experimented on for the rest of her days?
(Why, other than personal animus, would this be downvoted?)
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Of course she would be able to communicate. Cats and dogs can communicate to us.
Ok, communicate using complex language. She's not going to be picking up English at even a basic level.
So these are probably the oldest living organisms in existence then, huh? I'm not aware of anything that's older than 42000 years, but I'd be amazed to be wrong :)
Spores in amber and salt deposits have been revived after 40 and 240 million years, respectively. There are colonial organisms over 40,000 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organis... http://www.sciencemag.org/content/268/5213/1060 http://www.extremescience.com/OldestLivingThing.htm
I thought the half life of DNA was around 400 years. Anyone know how this is possible?
DNA can be repaired. Decay of organic structures is mostly just breaking apart. This is much more reversible than reproducing radioactive elements from decay products.
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Indeed, if such a woman had been unfrozen, would she be too important of a scientific discovery to ever be allowed to live a normal human life again? Would she just be a research subject quarantined and experimented on for the rest of her days?
Experimented on? Seriously? The modern world does not operate according to Dr. Mengele's ethics. Anyone "experimenting on" her would receive worldwide condemnation and all sorts of criminal charges. (Why, other than personal animus, would this be downvoted?)