Bacteria may the answer to oil spills

When I saw this on the news, they warned that if the bacteria feast on something as large as the spill, they will reproduce in too large of quantities and pump out too muc of something (CO2, I think), that will produce harmfull levels for the ocean environment in the gulf. So there's a bad side to this.
 
T&A said:
When I saw this on the news, they warned that if the bacteria feast on something as large as the spill, they will reproduce in too large of quantities and pump out too muc of something (CO2, I think), that will produce harmfull levels for the ocean environment in the gulf. So there's a bad side to this.
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Just deliver the oil hungry bacteria alongside CO2 eating bacteria. Problem solved.

This science lark is a piece of piss isn't it? God i'm good.
 
T&A said:
I dunno, I don't have a scientific mind. Part of the reason why I get so depressed about my life...
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Yes, there's nothing a girl likes more than a man in a white coat and goggles dissecting a plankton while reciting the periodic table backwards.

Plus they have ready access to chloroform.
 
Gee I wish the oil companies would ahve invested into this technology before the fucking spill.
 
this would be like introducing a type of fly that specializes in eating fire ants, only to have the fly start laying its eggs in the ears of cats and dogs, which then eats their brains or something.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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from jurassic park
 
SmarterThanYou said:
this would be like introducing a type of fly that specializes in eating fire ants, only to have the fly start laying its eggs in the ears of cats and dogs, which then eats their brains or something.
from jurassic park
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Or the critters get into the Strategic Petroleum Reserves. I would suggest the folks who are planning on using those "critters" take a few minutes to watch the following, starting at 7:00 minutes.

 
Okay, read the story. They wouldn't be creating anything new at all, it isn't spliced or anything. All they would be doing is adding nutrients that allow the microbes to breed then removing the added nutrients.

It looks like a far better idea than people have produced so far. I mean, dog hair? That's the story I read recently.
 
SSgt said:
I dunno, I don't have a scientific mind. Part of the reason why I get so depressed about my life...
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It's not that big a deal 3D and it's fun. All you have to do to have a scientific mind is watch, observe or think about something happening. Say to your self "Golly, I think that X will happen if I do Y. You then do "Y" and if "X" happens you go, "Dude, that's so kewl, let's see if we can do it again." If "X" happens again and "Y" didn't involve an invisible man in the sky, little green men, fairy dust or Dixie dancing on the head of a pin, then congratulations, you have a scientific mind. :)

See how simple that is?
 
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charver said:
Yes, there's nothing a girl likes more than a man in a white coat and goggles dissecting a plankton while reciting the periodic table backwards.

Plus they have ready access to chloroform.
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LOL I know what you mean. I would lie to chicks when I was in college and tell them I was an environmental art major.
 
Damocles said:
Well, he probably is related to Benjamin Franklin... I mean, he pretty much had every woman in Europe, didn't he?
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Are you sure?


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