THE idea that a person could be cryogenically frozen and then revived tens or hundreds of years later is still in the realm of science fiction. For some microbes, however, it is reality. Known as psychrophiles – literally, lovers of ice – they can survive at extremely cold temperatures for hundreds of thousands of years. Though frozen parts of the world such as Antarctica and Siberia appear comatose and desolate, they are actually vast reservoirs of creatures in a state of suspended animation, and in some cases they are not suspended at all, but fully functioning living organisms.
In fact, it appears…
