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- StanDevia, on 05/06/2008, -42/+282nom nom nom
- Ranvier, on 05/06/2008, -14/+235It's OM NOM NOM NOM dammit!
- stilesja, on 05/06/2008, -10/+220That is quite cool. Lets start putting up more Nuclear power plants and give these guys something to eat and give us some cheap energy.
- DiscoLando, on 05/06/2008, -8/+134Uranium eating bacteria would be more useful, imo.
Although I have to admit, I didn't know uranium could eat anything! - KokomoNYC, on 05/06/2008, -1/+87It's not exactly "eliminating" the pollution, but the bacteria are certainly making it more manageable by converting it from a dissolved to a solid form. There isn't any biological pathway, that I know of, anyway, that can eliminate radioactive isotopes.
- covertress, on 05/06/2008, -5/+66This is the most outstanding thing I have seen all year!
- Ghoztt, on 05/06/2008, -3/+64Step 1: Build nuclear power plant in the middle of nowhere Nevada, one mile underground.
Step 2: Use bacteria to take care of waste
Step 3: Wait, that would mean cheap energy for our peons... CANCEL STEP ONE! ABORT! ABORT!!!!! - markp93, on 05/06/2008, -1/+62then they infect poor unsuspecting lab worker, and ... jeez... here we go again with another superhero
- CaptainAmerica1, on 05/06/2008, -9/+57Apparently, these little buggers enable the metabolism of soluble radioactive contaminants into insoluble harmless forms. That really is an incredible capability that would help with the concern about the use of nuclear power in the US as one of the ways to get us off the teat of foreign oil.
But...don't worry...the anti-nuke crowd will come up with something of concern and block efforts to use the technology and in the end, this will never be adopted. - accessviolation, on 05/06/2008, -3/+45Actually you've got it wrong. The current title is correct. "Bacteria eating uranium" is a sentence fragment (a noun clause in this case) where bacteria is the subject, eating is the verb, and uranium is the direct object. "Here is a picture of bacteria that are eating uranium."
There is a difference between "Bacteria eating uranium" (the actual title) and "Bacteria-eating uranium." If we took your proposed title, it would read "Uranium eating bacteria" or "Here is a picture of uranium that are eating bacteria."
Perhaps it would help you to think of it this way: "cows eating grass." Obviously that is not saying that we have cow-eating grass on our hands.
Sorry... I'm done now. - OneLess, on 05/06/2008, -3/+44I love SEM photos :)
- tsotha, on 05/06/2008, -0/+37Heh. If you find a bacterium that actually changes the number of protons in an atom you're up for a well-deserved Nobel prize
- zantos420, on 05/06/2008, -2/+32looks like some dank
- wc3452, on 05/06/2008, -2/+31I see what you did there
- wolferz, on 05/06/2008, -0/+28I'm not anti nuclear power... but I feel the need to point out (as a devils advocate) that they do not make nuclear waste harmless. They simply make it more manageable and less likely to seep into water supplies, etc.
- Murdats, on 05/06/2008, -1/+26not everyone studied biology, and apparently you never even learnt basic comprehension.
he said other planets, not space.
also there are creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean that live off of the sulphur vents, large multi-cell creatures. - Velvolver, on 05/06/2008, -8/+32I can haz raydeashun?
- searcade, on 05/06/2008, -0/+21"Geobacter sp. are anaerobic bacteria (living without oxygen) that use metals to gain energy in the same way that humans use oxygen."
I have just learned a new thing, so can there be life on other planets which do not have oxygen? - Chahrlie5, on 05/06/2008, -2/+21Because people bitch about oil use and want to use more electric powered vehicles blah blah, and it's a ***** tonne cleaner than coal, and way more efficient than building a thousand wind turbines or a billion solar panels etc.
- trizzlelv, on 05/06/2008, -1/+20Hey! Keep your nuclear waste out of my state. Nevada doesn't need any power, we have the Hoover Dam. According to the History Channel's "After We're Gone", Las Vegas will be the only city able to sustain power independently for years, without human intervention!
- yikiad, on 05/06/2008, -1/+19 you're a dick.
- barius, on 05/06/2008, -1/+18Anaerobic bacteria were the first form of life on Earth (as per the Theory of Evolution). So, at one point in time all living things survived without Oxygen. The ability to metabolize Oxygen, however, gives an organism a large advantage because the amount of energy involved in such metabolic processes is much higher. Once the ability to metabolize O2 evolved, those organisms quickly spread and took over the planet. That's why you, I and most living things on Earth today are aerobic (Oxygen metabolizing) organisms. Anaerobic organisms still exist, but they are mostly confined to places where there is little or no Oxygen and therefore no aerobic organisms to compete with.
- afx1, on 05/06/2008, -0/+16looks delicious
- searcade, on 05/06/2008, -1/+17Thanks, im only 16, and like you said i didnt say anything about space i meant on other planets.
- DonSlice, on 05/06/2008, -11/+25I, for one, welcome our uranium eating overlords.
- bobbinika, on 05/06/2008, -4/+18its still radioactive you tards
- truthhammer, on 05/06/2008, -6/+19"Lets start putting up more Nuclear power plants ". Yes.
- Stormwern, on 05/06/2008, -0/+13You can compare it to soaking up puke with sawdust. It's alot easier to shuffle, but it's just as disgusting. Sorry if I ruined someone's apetite, best example I could think of.
- Murdats, on 05/06/2008, -3/+16and will force us to keep using coal power while complaining that we need to turn out lights off.
- Seannaz453, on 05/06/2008, -0/+13First comes space elevators.
- sockpuppets, on 05/06/2008, -0/+12OM NOM NOM NOM
- HonestAbe, on 05/06/2008, -0/+12Nuclear waste is not just uranium.
- hinchb, on 05/06/2008, -0/+11Not with all those lights
- chanop, on 05/06/2008, -1/+12doesn't eliminate radiation, injest, becomes part of creature or poops it out
- stoph009, on 05/06/2008, -0/+11stop feeding it uranium?
- ninjasaurus, on 05/06/2008, -0/+10I was ready nearly 5 hours ago when it happened the first time.
- bigsteve, on 05/06/2008, -1/+11DON'T. DROP. THAT. *****. Pray to GOD you don't drop that *****.
- Chahrlie5, on 05/06/2008, -3/+13While at the same time whining about energy prices
- AmaDaden, on 05/06/2008, -0/+10@halobender The internets is no place for tomfoolery! You better learn to behave your self or I will turn this Web 2.0 right around. Is that what you want? Dial up and BBSes?
- KipEvil, on 05/06/2008, -3/+13Yellowcake!
- Chahrlie5, on 05/06/2008, -1/+11That's a plus. Will make it that bit safer for storage.
- recruz, on 05/06/2008, -1/+10im in ur raydeashun eatin ur uraniumz
- Utopian, on 05/06/2008, -0/+9Yeah, that's basically just an "Old!" comment with 57 extra words.
- rationalist, on 05/06/2008, -1/+10Dugg you up for good science, but RTFA:
These bacteria "turn the uranium waste from a soluble form (that can contaminate water supplies) to a solid form." - briguymaine, on 05/06/2008, -1/+10but how do we kill the super bacteria?
- RustyJ, on 05/06/2008, -1/+10That's what the teenage mutant ninja turtles looked like as infants.
Turtle and a half shell, Nuclear Power! - sv650touring, on 05/06/2008, -1/+10What does your comment have to do with anything? It is a neat-as-hell science thingy. It doesn't matter if it isn't a "new science innovation"
- daok, on 05/06/2008, -1/+10halobender take less coffee before posting. Digg isn't a biology website so calm down.
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