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- t3hbagel, on 05/27/2008, -15/+281This was JUST on the front page.
- crazyjake, on 05/27/2008, -15/+206this story was pretty good the first time...
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Teen_s_Science_Pr ... - Samsong, on 05/27/2008, -33/+186Teen figures out how to decompose plastic bags in 3 months, fails to get a date for prom.
- polishdude06, on 05/27/2008, -38/+181and the bacteria go OM NOM NOM NOM
- fitqueenb, on 05/27/2008, -14/+156If he has entrepreneurial skills, he might be able to lock in a nice retirement fund for himself! The plastic bags are a problem, and we the people need a solution now.
- mesmeriffic, on 05/27/2008, -8/+111He figured it out again?! Holy *****. Einstein only found out the mass-energy equivalence once, while this kid is making breakthroughs in decomposing plastics multiple times a week.
- Velnich, on 05/27/2008, -13/+110Burried as duplicate from 3 days ago.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Teen_s_Science_Pr ... - quomen, on 05/27/2008, -8/+63Isn't Zaibatsu a top submitter? Didn't this story get 4,000+ Diggs a few days ago?
This is why I hate these guys. - inactive, on 05/27/2008, -3/+52Ebola is a virus.
- SSUK, on 05/27/2008, -5/+38You sir, do not understand the premise of a joke. Good day.
- vuke69, on 05/27/2008, -9/+37Solution: Don't use plastic bags.
But beyond that, plastic bags breaking down is not the problem. Leave a plastic bag outside for a year, and you will notice that it will have lost almost all of it's structural integrity in that short (well, shorter than 1000's of years anyhow) period. leave it for a few more years and it will basically turn to dust all by itself. It's amazing what just a little sunlight can do.
Trying to get that to happen in an anaerobic environment is the tough part, which by the way, this kid has not managed to do.
I applaud his efforts, but he has not managed to solve a difficult problem, he has managed to misunderstand a difficult problem, and solve a significantly easier subset of that problem. - Osmose1000, on 05/27/2008, -3/+28This is the second time today that I have seen an article hit the front page that was on the front page less than a week ago.
At this rate I'm thinking of just submitting every article that hits the second page of Top in 7 Days and becoming a front page superstar. - euro22, on 12/17/2008, -4/+22And you ***** KNOW he saw the dupe when he was submitting this. What a ***** *****.
- Dylson, on 05/27/2008, -3/+20Dumbass.
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX, on 05/27/2008, -1/+18He also tried to submit the Stewie picture again:
http://digg.com/comics_animation/This_Is_What_Stew ... - RandomGorilla, on 05/27/2008, -6/+23That beaker he's holding? Part of his meth lab.
- BlankLeeloo, on 05/27/2008, -2/+18Beating dead horses is a favorite pastime of the internet.
- iticu, on 05/27/2008, -1/+15Yeah, but when it crumbles into dust it's still not gone; it's just smaller, and therefore easier to get into the foodchain at lower levels.
- Stormwern, on 05/27/2008, -1/+14Plastic bags have no effect on fertility, and the sewage system is too cold for the microbes to work, the decomposition would have to be done in a recycling center.
- mickstephenson, on 05/27/2008, -1/+14BMP's are very high quality images as they use no compression, which is why they are so big.
- StealthMonkey, on 05/27/2008, -5/+18i have been hearing that aliens will come and murder us all for at least one hundred years if an absurd rumor gets spread by chance..
- vi3telit3, on 05/27/2008, -1/+13The kid knows this is an awesome discovery. The adult chemical engineer in me knows that a 3-month reactor residence time is not economically feasible. I hate growing up :(
- TheRealToma, on 05/27/2008, -17/+28That pic looks kind of like a bad GIF or a good ol' BMP.
- nakile, on 05/27/2008, -2/+13It's a GIF that was turned into a JPEG. They might as well have tried spraying air freshener on dog *****...
- spyd3rweb, on 05/27/2008, -6/+16How about recycling them?
- PaulOwen, on 05/27/2008, -2/+12The first thing he should do is keep the process secret and apply for a patent.
D'oh. - tlm2021, on 05/27/2008, -2/+12I agree with the "don't use plastic bags" solution. And not only because of how long it takes them to decompose. We're constantly worried about the oil crises, the price of gas, and the future of alternative energies. But no one wants to talk about possibly reducing our dependence on plastics. Their so cheap and convenient and they're used for just about everything thing. But guess what it takes to make plastic: oil.
- B3000, on 05/27/2008, -1/+10"Pun-tang"? Is that some kind of orange drink made from comedic homophones and homonyms?
- Stormwern, on 05/27/2008, -3/+12Smart for a teen, he could seriously get a nobel price for this. The "tiny amount of carbon dioxide" isn't exactly true though. Plastic consists to 90% of coal, and all of that will turn into co2, though probably environmentally sound in lack of better solutions anyway.
- bstew22, on 05/27/2008, -2/+10aaahhhhh the internet! i don't know what i'm commenting about i'm just typing words cause it's fun!
- ginnipig, on 05/27/2008, -2/+9your digg count is going OM NOM NOM NOM
- Pritchard, on 05/27/2008, -2/+9Attention - I am putting zaibatsu on ignore. This is probably the thousandth time I've seen this ***** submit a dupe. Yes, stupid to announce it, but after a few minutes of ranting I finally realized that a solution was here all along...
- ErikHarrison, on 05/27/2008, -2/+9The kid may have not managed to get them to break down in an anaerobic environment, but who is to say it wouldn't work? You the random digger?
- HeavyWave, on 05/27/2008, -1/+8doesn't mean *****. ALL top submitters just use the army of their friends, they (friends) don't even look at the story and digg everything. this is the major problem of digg algorithm and this is the reason why people don't like MrBabyMan. and not just because he's an ***** or anything.
- flashback99, on 05/27/2008, -0/+7you dont need a brain to make a bong. Just weed and willpower.
- Rubab, on 05/27/2008, -16/+22that is amazing.. i am sure this will help in eradicating those problems related to plastic bag disposing.. I heard in pakistan, there are tons and tons of trash made up of plastic bag and block the sewerage system underground.. there was another important thing, i have been hearing is that the fertility of a piece of land is destroyed for at least one hundred years if a plastic bag gets buried by chance..
- DaviDTC, on 05/27/2008, -3/+9His next science project needs to be how to make the spammers check the duplicate story generator.
- Fordi, on 05/27/2008, -1/+7I do wonder, though. He's basically used controlled selection to breed a bacterium which will metabolize PETE into CO2 and H2O, it may be possible to control for PETE metabolization into other compounds. Given that he started with yeasts, it may even be possible to control for metabolization into a sugar, sugar alcohol, or polymer ester.
It would be interesting if we could ferment plastics back into petrochemicals or into other fuels. - Velnich, on 05/27/2008, -2/+8Having missed it go popular or front page is one thing, having missed it go Top in 24 hr or 7days is another.
- garvallagh, on 05/27/2008, -0/+6Ireland - Plastic bag free since 2002!
- woofers07, on 05/27/2008, -0/+6it's got some awesome dithering goin on there
- craiginct, on 05/27/2008, -10/+16Still sounds like something far more productive than spending hundreds of millions to see if there is ice on Mars.
- dpogni, on 05/27/2008, -5/+11Damn, good for him. Back when I was 16, my headline would have read, "Teen hooks up with sorta hot girl", or "Teen gets gets really drunk and pukes on moms garden"
- theHM, on 05/27/2008, -0/+5You're thinking of "poontang", which is a word generally used by those who aren't getting any.
- gldfshnpcklejar, on 05/27/2008, -4/+9internet is serious business. digg fight club. go
- MetaMars, on 05/27/2008, -1/+6Yeah, but now it's new and improved, by Zaibatsu!
- HeavyWave, on 05/27/2008, -2/+6In case you didn't know digg shows duplicates when you submit a story. Ignoring that and still submitting the same story doesn't make Zaibatsu a smart man.
- Testies, on 05/27/2008, -0/+4Ah those Canadians. What CAN'T they do?
- Poco, on 05/27/2008, -0/+4No, no, clearly releasing it into the atmosphere by breaking it down is better. I mean, if you bury it, it will just sit there, doing nothing.
- homercles337, on 05/27/2008, -3/+7Why do so many people automatically think about money? "He's going to get rich, and quick with this scheme!" Its sad that so few think of the societal benefit to science.
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