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From: akkana%brain@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (Akkana)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Death defying dehydration and the meaning of "life"
Message-ID: <977@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 88 01:30:45 GMT
References: <245@oracle.UUCP>
Sender: py21@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU
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Keywords: life, death, dehydrate, freezing
Summary: Sea-Monkeys

In article <245@oracle.UUCP>, rbradbur@oracle.UUCP (Robert Bradbury) writes:
> The Feb 13 issue of Science News has a very interesting article about
> life forms (nematodes, brine shrimp, tardigrades) which can "live"
> after "death" by dehydration.  The gist of the article is that

Did you ever buy "Sea Monkeys" when you were a kid?  :-)

(For those who didn't, they were little packets of dried brine shrimp
which turned into breeding colonies of live wiggling brine shrimp when
you dumped them into water.  Neat stuff.  The literature which came
with them wasn't very scientific, though -- it was all about "Bringing
you the MIRACLE of INSTANT LIFE!" and that sort of thing ...)

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	...Akkana
	LaboratoryForBiologicalDynamicsAndTheoreticalMedicine, UCSD
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