resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoScientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make breadwww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1243arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1234arrow-down1external-linkScientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make breadwww.cbsnews.comresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSibbo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-23 days ago The scientists then reproduced the gut yeast in a fridge. So they didn’t actually destroy any part of the mummy, they just used bacteria sourced from the mummy that they multiplied anyways for further study.
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoYeast is a fungus, but otherwise right. It’s an interesting article. Also kind of horrifying.
minus-squareJeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoYes, but isnt it pOssible that those batteries may have come from an extra-terrestrial source, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe?
minus-squaregreybeard@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThat was just people watching Wormhole Xtreme and making stuff up.
So they didn’t actually destroy any part of the mummy, they just used bacteria sourced from the mummy that they multiplied anyways for further study.
Yeast is a fungus, but otherwise right.
It’s an interesting article. Also kind of horrifying.
Yes, but isnt it pOssible that those batteries may have come from an extra-terrestrial source, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe?
Stargate. Next question.
That was just people watching Wormhole Xtreme and making stuff up.