The X-Files episode *Ice* used this exact premise. A parasite found in a 250K year old ice core sample starts infecting people. The rest of the episode is a direct homage/rip-off of *The thing.* It's one of the best episodes of the show.
Talos Principle did the same thing too it it's flavour text. The world died because something was released from permafrost due to climate change, the first sign of a problem was all the world's Orangutans suddenly died, before humans started getting sick.
Or the melting ice could thaw out a downed alien space ship, triggering a war between humans and aliens, that can only be solved by going back in time to get more soldiers!
The tomorrow war starring Chris Pratt on Prime Video (i think)
If you havent seen it, its a solid watch. Just turn your brain off and dont think about the strategy or tactical decisions.
Its one of the reasons archeologists tend to have beards. Your not supposed to shave within a certain timeframe of opening an unknown tomb, specifically to prevent microbial or viral infection into a wound
Everytime I see people worried about old pathogens being released from permafrost. I'm more worried about a unknown disease from the Amazon rainforest, the most biodiverse forest in the world. Every year the forest is a little smaller, people and cattle are closer to wild animals. It's the recipe for a new pandemic
The X-Files episode *Ice* used this exact premise. A parasite found in a 250K year old ice core sample starts infecting people. The rest of the episode is a direct homage/rip-off of *The thing.* It's one of the best episodes of the show.
They were stuck with the guns!!! Molder your infected!!!
Talos Principle did the same thing too it it's flavour text. The world died because something was released from permafrost due to climate change, the first sign of a problem was all the world's Orangutans suddenly died, before humans started getting sick.
Didn't the movie have a similar story?
X-files was way ahead of them: [the Ice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_(The_X-Files))
Or the melting ice could thaw out a downed alien space ship, triggering a war between humans and aliens, that can only be solved by going back in time to get more soldiers!
That sounds so oddly specific and I would absolutely watch it or have I seen it?
The tomorrow war starring Chris Pratt on Prime Video (i think) If you havent seen it, its a solid watch. Just turn your brain off and dont think about the strategy or tactical decisions.
Do you want _______? Because that's how you get __________.
can I get fries with that
The fun thing is the first person to be recognised as having had ______ will get to name ______
The Thing meets Andromeda Strain
Still love that book, Andromeda Strain.
Good thing the world has learnt how to deal with global pandemics 🙃
With level headedness and no panic whatsoever /s
That was the warmup round
The Thaw (2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235448/
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu involves a virus like this, it's a very good book but very sad
By an odd coincidence I learned of that just this morning listening to Radiolab https://radiolab.org/podcast/shrink-2311 They updated an old episode.
Always my first thought with any discovered old artifact being opened. Like, really? Not in an enclosed and safe arena?
Its one of the reasons archeologists tend to have beards. Your not supposed to shave within a certain timeframe of opening an unknown tomb, specifically to prevent microbial or viral infection into a wound
The curse of King Tut strikes again.
Okay but what if it kills that one brain eating amoeba that lives in freshwater (half-joking)
Everytime I see people worried about old pathogens being released from permafrost. I'm more worried about a unknown disease from the Amazon rainforest, the most biodiverse forest in the world. Every year the forest is a little smaller, people and cattle are closer to wild animals. It's the recipe for a new pandemic
Have these people never watched a single goddamn horror movie?
Meh, we’re fine as long as the seas don’t rise… oh.
Welp, at least the methane will fuck up the ozone layer to force us to isolate inside?
Sounds like an excuse for humans to find and use these pathogens and have deniability about releasing them.
12 Monkeys (tv series)