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Re: New Microbe Discovered Eating Gulf Oil Spill
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2010, 09:01:34 PM »
Quote from: stevelyn on August 25, 2010, 08:12:42 PM
What does the oil change into after the microbes comsume it?
Um....Not_Oil.   =D
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Re: New Microbe Discovered Eating Gulf Oil Spill
« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2010, 10:38:53 PM »
Quote from: stevelyn on August 25, 2010, 08:12:42 PM
What does the oil change into after the microbes comsume it?

Microbe poop  ???

Or, more microbes...?   =|
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Re: New Microbe Discovered Eating Gulf Oil Spill
« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2010, 11:56:54 PM »
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What does the oil change into after the microbes comsume it?
How about asphalt or tar balls?  Great fire starters.
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Re: New Microbe Discovered Eating Gulf Oil Spill
« Reply #28 on: August 26, 2010, 09:15:40 AM »
'Spose we could genetic up a strain that would eat politicians?

Now them's some pollutants.
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Re: New Microbe Discovered Eating Gulf Oil Spill
« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2010, 07:24:53 PM »
Quote from: 230RN on August 26, 2010, 09:15:40 AM
'Spose we could genetic up a strain that would eat politicians?

Even microbes have standards  ;)
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Re: New Microbe Discovered Eating Gulf Oil Spill
« Reply #30 on: August 26, 2010, 09:46:37 PM »
Quote from: 230RN on August 26, 2010, 09:15:40 AM
'Spose we could genetic up a strain that would eat politicians?


Only thing is...it wouldn't take much for it to mutate and start eating lawyers next....and I don't think we could develop a vaccine for BW in time....
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Re: New Microbe Discovered Eating Gulf Oil Spill
« Reply #31 on: August 26, 2010, 11:45:39 PM »
mutate? lawyers are politicians. they just haven't grown up yet. [popcorn]
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Re: New Microbe Discovered Eating Gulf Oil Spill
« Reply #32 on: August 27, 2010, 03:48:24 PM »
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'Splanation of some posts which I deleted and left a couple of dots...

I'm having trouble with posting a reply to something and not realizing the post I was replying to was not on the last page after all.

So my post doesn't make sense in the-last-page-context.

I'll outgrow that.
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