I read that they have just managed to resurrect some 250 million year old bacteria from a lump of rock. So ths thing has some way to go I fear.

Just in case you want to know, without loadingthe bugger -here is the current last post on the death thread, from Bernard (but I doubt if it'll stay the last post for long):

VIRUS ALERT

THIS THREAD HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH A MANUAL VIRUS

< How it works:

The manual virus works on an honour system. So, please firstly e-mail this to everyone in your mailing list, then randomly delete a few of your own computer files.

Thank you.