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Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:   (Susan Hiebert)
Subject: Frozen Bugs
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 00:46:43 GMT


I have 1 little question and a little story.

My question is: What is the largest organism that has been frozen for a perio
of time, and then been re-animated?

My little story goes back to my elementary school years when i lived in Inuvik
North West Territories.  Every spring, large chunks of snow and ice would slide
off of the room of our school, and accumulate in big piles of ice all around
the school yard. Completely encased in big chunks of ice, were your ordinary
looking everyday type of housefly. My schoolmates and I would spend our recess
digging chunks of ice that had these files in them.

When it was time to go back to class, we would sneak these peices of ice in 
with us and place them in hidden places around the classroom; in the garbage
or in other's desks. After about 20 minutes or so, the ice would be melted
and the flies would be flying all around the classroom, disturbing the teacher 
to our delight.

I guess the flies had somehow gotten frozen in the first snowfall in a nest or
something on the roof of our school, and spent the entire winter frozen in ice.

It was a pretty wierd thing to see flies buzzing around when snow still covered
everything.


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Aaron Davidson

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