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- emdanan, on 06/16/2008, -4/+74The article says NOTHING about plastic... it's just about the discovery of a potential new lifeform. The title is misleading!
- Smashery, on 06/16/2008, -1/+47AMAZING DISCOVERY!!!!!
...12 years ago
Article published in 2000, and says "Scientists in Australia at the University of Queensland discovered the tiny oddities __four years ago__". - Ganja420, on 06/16/2008, -4/+46Yea but can it ***** petrol???
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Scientists_find_b ... - bremstrong, on 06/16/2008, -0/+38Brings to mind the quote "The world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
- rpi22, on 06/15/2008, -1/+25For more information;
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modloa ...
http://web.archive.org/web/20050204034526/http://w ...
http://avaxsphere.com/video/Format/documentary/215 ... - rancidpony, on 06/16/2008, -3/+24Where in the article does it state that the nanobes eat plastic?
- Aensland, on 06/16/2008, -1/+13If you guys read the first comment which got buried, the submitter replies where plastic is mentioned... it's in the video. Now I'm gonna sit back and watch how many other people start posting the same question.
- bothan, on 06/16/2008, -6/+17yeah, no mention of plastic...
- zadadka, on 06/16/2008, -1/+12And then there's the Canadian schoolboy that made good on microbes "eating" plastic carrier bags :
http://abovecapricorn.blogspot.com/2008/06/microbe ... - S1ngular1ty1, on 06/16/2008, -6/+16Article never mentions these things eating plastic. Bad title.
- S1ngular1ty1, on 06/16/2008, -2/+10It's not in the article though.
- smacksaw, on 06/16/2008, -5/+13Lazy and stupid? Who's the one who failed to mention that video in the description of the article?
Look, chuckles: You're the one who ***** up. Don't go off on him for pointing out your mistake. You wanna yell at me for pointing out you ***** up as well?
1st ***** - you mention they eat plastic, but don't tell people how to find it.
2nd ***** - you ***** all over this guy because he failed to watch a video that you didn't advertise
3rd ***** - instead of being cool about YOUR mistake, you call him lazy and stupid when you were the one who could find neither the time nor the intellect to mention the video IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Seriously. Your description runs out of characters and you run with it? And he's the lazy and stupid one?
Buried because you're a jackass. - axisdelasal, on 06/16/2008, -0/+7DAMN GEORGE CARLIN WAS RIGHT, THE EARTH NEEDS PLASTIC!!!!!
- krumplicukor, on 06/16/2008, -0/+7I just hope those bacteria won't get loose and eat plastic that wasn't meant to be eaten...
- fixyourthinking, on 06/16/2008, -3/+9These may be midichlorians?
- geffo, on 06/16/2008, -3/+8its life but not as we know it.
- rpi22, on 06/16/2008, -14/+19buried as lazy and stupid... its in the video;
http://avaxsphere.com/video/Format/documentary/215 ... - EvilBaby, on 06/16/2008, -0/+5assuming they could be confined to the oceans. Plastic eating anything could destroy our way of living. Plastic is in everything!
- jordan314, on 06/16/2008, -0/+4There was that teen that discovered a plastic-eating bacteria recently too.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/teen-de ... - smacksaw, on 06/16/2008, -4/+8LOL...if 100 people ask the same question, the only one who isn't lazy and stupid is the submitter.
- atact88, on 06/16/2008, -5/+9Buried for inaccuracy. Nothing about eating plastic, only their small size. In addition, they are not confirmed to be bacteria, only extremely small things that seem to have DNA and show some similarity to fungi. Did poster read the article?
- ripple123, on 06/16/2008, -2/+6OH MY ***** GOD NANOSCALE BACTERIA.
- Gbobrt4, on 06/16/2008, -0/+4kilo>hecto>deka>meter>deci>centi>milli>micro>nano ......Look I found them!
- theaceoffire, on 06/16/2008, -0/+4Yes, he somehow traveled forward in time. *woot*.
- jamesmudgett, on 06/16/2008, -1/+4I just read something about a kid who found a plastic eating bacteria and took home a science fair prize. I don't think these guys are the only ones doing the same type of research. Although, I cant remember if that was on Digg a couple of weeks ago...
- clayasaurus, on 06/16/2008, -0/+3Inaccurate, story has nothing to do with plastic.
- minorgods, on 06/16/2008, -1/+4yes. it was.
- bono4u, on 06/16/2008, -0/+3I thought of the same, but i always must think of Australia where they brought in the toad to get rid of the bunnies and rats. Now they have so many toxic giant toads and can't get rid of them.
- bono4u, on 06/16/2008, -0/+3eight posts till someone posted who really read the article, wow
- danfive555, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2Correction:
Picophytoplankton are 2-3 micrometers in size the bacteria in this article are 20-150 nanometers. - diggydougie, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2But those of us that have already heard of the tiny microbes know from previous stories that they do eat plastic. That's how they were discovered. A researcher noticed that a plastic dish with samples from deep in an oil well was cloudy after sitting for a while and she investigated. And the controversy spurred by that is the subject of the article.
- dfeifer, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2no, but if you do a little research, there is a video that goes more in depth about it and says it.
- danfive555, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2"Tests to identify the strains found strain two was Sphingomonas bacteria and the helper was Pseudomonas."
Kid used selection over multiple generations to isolate strains that would decompose strips of plastic. These bacteria are not nano nor novel, they are actually very common, and were originally from dirt from a dumpsite. - BenKenobi88, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2At the preposterous speed of 1x!
- freak3295, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2didn't that high school kid do this a while ago?
- ceramufary, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2Ohhhh. D'oh!
- kyxaa, on 06/16/2008, -1/+3Yeah...there wasn't anything about eating plastic....
- captainanndor, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2Reminds me of a book I read (though, granted it was Fiction) about developing some chemical or bacteria to eat oil, to clean up oil spills. But it got into the fuel supply and the entire country fell into chaos.
Except the hero scientists who lived on a solar farm.
.... Your example is better because it actually happened. - bono4u, on 06/16/2008, -1/+3Only because of the majority of the earths population might believe in a higher being does not give evidence that there is one.
Nevertheless there is no clue in the article that those nanobs are consuming plastic. That a video which need more time to download then reading the article posted includes this information should have been mentioned in the part describing the article. - bono4u, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2i was wrong, second post by philodygmn mentioned it and at the moment i try to download those videos
- dfeifer, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1Its in reference to the size of the bacteria, which is much smaller then the average bacteria.
- BufordT, on 06/16/2008, -1/+2Sorry professor, but a kid from Canada has already discovered this.
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/05/science-fair ... - captainanndor, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1Still, reading the article would discourage the thought that it's something evolved to correct the ecosystem, given that it was buried deep, deep below the surface, where our plastic litter likely has little to no effect on anything.
It's newly discovered by humans, but I doubt it's a new bacteria/fungus/whatever. - booshack, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1Substitute stranger with queerer and imagine with suppose.
Still dugg for dawkins though. - ceramufary, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1I'm so glad Dr. Uwin is finally getting recognized for this! She was just about laughed out of the scientific community at first, even though she had reams and reams of evidence. No, the article doesn't mention plastic, but Dr. Uwin was first alerted to the possibility of these little guys living in the sandstone because they bloody well ate through the plastic petrie dishes she stored her rock samples in. om nom nom nom.
- Yage2006, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1And when there is no more plastic it eats you :)
- radarplane, on 06/16/2008, -1/+2Wow. The word "plastic" isn't even in the article.
- booshack, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1OMG THETANS
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