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2019-12-17 Science & Technology
Bio Major Ms. Morgan Vague Breeds Microbes That Eat Plastic
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-17 07:05|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Time Magazine 'person of the year' (any year) ?
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-17 07:10||   2019-12-17 07:10|| Front Page Top

#2 "And then Ms. Kardashian...disintegrated"
Posted by Frank G 2019-12-17 07:11||   2019-12-17 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Great. Everyones' plastic possessions will now decay and fall apart. Plastic producers rubbing hands with glee.
Posted by Elmereger Clavins7805 2019-12-17 07:16||   2019-12-17 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 "I'm sorry dear, I don't know what happened to your credit card."
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-17 07:18||   2019-12-17 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Years ago I read a book about a chemist that made a bacteria that ate plastic. It got out and destroyed civilization as we know it.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2019-12-17 08:11||   2019-12-17 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Another appearance of the "trash vortex" that is never photographed. Purported photographs always turn out to be off a third-world river.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-12-17 08:15||   2019-12-17 08:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Years ago I read a book about a chemist that made a bacteria that ate plastic. It got out and destroyed civilization as we know it.

"Mutant 59", maybe.

The interesting bit here is she isolated the bugs, micro-bio-speak for finding them in nature. Said another way, these bacteria naturally break down supposedly inert plastic molecules.
Posted by SteveS 2019-12-17 08:23||   2019-12-17 08:23|| Front Page Top

#8 #5 Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-17 08:24||   2019-12-17 08:24|| Front Page Top

#9 There were also several stories in the "There will be war" anthologies about Russia releasing a bug that ate gasoline and diesel. They had a counter to it but that failed about 3 months after they released it. So everything back to steam and they could only run the tanks and AFV's on ethanol.

I agree this sort of thing makes me nervous.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-12-17 09:38||   2019-12-17 09:38|| Front Page Top

#10 
Or, we could just have more o' these gems. Robert, the plastic bag eater..
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-17 12:00||   2019-12-17 12:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Disney's transgendering of Steven Strange?
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-17 12:50||   2019-12-17 12:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Robert the plastic bag eater



Just sayin'.
Posted by gorb 2019-12-17 19:55||   2019-12-17 19:55|| Front Page Top

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