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"Mold" can survive for thousands of years!

    If you want mold to go away, you must kill it! Mold requires oxygen, moisture and organic material in order to be active. If you take away one of those three, after time mold will enter a state of dormancy. This is why we typically notice the associated "musty" odor of mold subsides in the winter when the humidity is lower. This is the opposite in the summer when it is more humid. So, if you thought your mold problem went away in the winter....you were wrong.  AMAZING! Microbes can survive trapped inside ice crystals, under 3 kilometres of snow, for more than 100,000 years, a new study suggests! The study bolsters the case that life may exist on distant, icy worlds in our own solar system. Living bacteria have been found in ice cores sampled at depths of 4 kilometres in Antarctica, though some scientists have argued that those microbes were contaminants from the drilling and testing of the samples in labs.    And in 2005, researchers revived a bacterium that sat dormant i