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    A fascinating discovery pulled from Siberia's permafrost has shed light on the possibility of life surviving in icy conditions and ignited fresh hope for the future of cryopreservation.

    Scientists have recovered a 24,000-year-old worm-like creature called a rotifer from a sample of permafrost, as the Indian Defence Review reported.

    According to the analysis published in the journal Current Biology, it had remained frozen since the Late Pleistocene.\

    Under meticulous laboratory conditions, they thawed the tiny creature — a multicellular but microscopic organism — and were delighted to see it begin to move and function again as if it had never been frozen.

    In fact, not only did the rotifer move, but it even reproduced asexually, creating more like it.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/24-000-old-zombie-worm-190000101.html

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      Well, assuming they made no scientific mistake, and a living thing lived for 24,000 years, or came back to life after being frozen for 24,000 year... is this meant to be about the idea that deceased human beings might be frozen (they are being frozen) and brought back to life in the future?

      I've always thought this idea was macabre, and I do not believe it is possible or will ever be possible.

      Imo, these matters or only decided by God (or by the Universe, if you like).

      'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik

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