<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I’m a bit skeptical of that long a time scale. But if it’s true, it also sounds like a good idea for a bad horror film. ;) (Then again, that’s actually been done several times before.)<div><br></div><div>By the way, I recall Schopf‘s popular level _Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils_ discussing life forms that evolve very slow, particularly, it seemed to him, archaea deep underground that have extremely slow metabolic and reproductive rates. He was talking about organisms that might take decades or centuries or even longer to reproduce.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 28, 2020, at 11:19 PM, SR Ballard via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">TITLE: <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: medium;">Deep sea microbes dormant for 100 million years are hungry and ready to multiply</span><br><br><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-07-deep-sea-microbes-dormant-million.html">https://phys.org/news/2020-07-deep-sea-microbes-dormant-million.html</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Basically, the title says it all. Pretty cool, huh?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>