Please, if the title is going to be that, at least remove the capitalization from that "m", so it represents an unity instead of "millions of something undisclosed".
Hacker News capitalized the “M” by itself.
Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock
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#12Would it theoreticaly possible to find frozen animals 120.000 years old with still intact DNA?
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#13Please, if the title is going to be that, at least remove the capitalization from that "m", so it represents an unity instead of "millions of something undisclosed".
Thank you for pointing this out. I thought it was referring to the age of the samples taken before reading your comment. It made the abstract less disappointing.
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#14Can't believe they don't show a photo of what appears to be a 10 meter in diameter, 2.7km deep hole.
It's a bit hidden but there's at least a few cool pictures in the "Facts about the EGRIP camp" section (Click the + icon).
There you can see that the actual hole is ~10cm in diameter and the actual drilling site under the snow.
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#15Can't believe they don't show a photo of what appears to be a 10 meter in diameter, 2.7km deep hole.
Or a video dropping a rock into it
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#17Please, if the title is going to be that, at least remove the capitalization from that "m", so it represents an unity instead of "millions of something undisclosed".
Thank you for pointing this out. I thought it was referring to the age of the samples taken before reading your comment. It made the abstract less disappointing.
I only clicked on the article because I thought it was the age of the samples too.
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#19Can't believe they don't show a photo of what appears to be a 10 meter in diameter, 2.7km deep hole.
The camera wouldn't take the picture, and then several of the scientists had to be sedated as they started acting strangely.
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#20Would it theoreticaly possible to find frozen animals 120.000 years old with still intact DNA?
Yeah, DNA in ice has a half-life of a million years. Seems very much possible.