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Growing Your Own Gold
An anonymous reader submits: "Scientists believe it may be possible to grow gold like growing potatoes. Time to throw away my IT degree and go back to being a primary producer!"
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Oh well, good thing I didn't quit my day job then...
The highly prized chunks of gold may be the product of generations of soil microbes at work.
I bet by the time you factor in health insurance, wages, and a 401K plan growing gold is no longer a functioning business plan.
Takers anyone? Periodic table symbo AU is the symbol for what? Gold.
Coincidence, but funny nonetheless.
Now, if they could breed flowering potato plants that turn red in the presence of gold mines, we might have something here!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Does anyone else find it funny that the link was to a .au site?
They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me.
That's all we need - bacteria & fungi which collect critical masses of uranium out of the soil.
Like, the plural of "hero" is "heroes", and "heroe" and "heros" are both wrong
However, the plural of "gyro" (the sandwich, rhymes with "hero") is "gyros" [1]. Oddly, though, the plural of "gyro" (short for "gyroscope") is also listed as "gyros", though I would think it should be "gyroes"
When I say them out loud, I can hear a long sound like "oes" in "heroes", where I hear a more clipped "os" in "gyros" -- though maybe that's just my trying to add a Greek accent. When I say "gyroes" out loud, emphasizing the "y" with a Texas drawl, it really sounds like an "oes". And my co-workers look over the cube walls to see what form of dementia I'm currently exhibiting.
Potatoes, gyros, heroes... All this posting is making me hungry. Time for lunch.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
I, for one, welcome our new gold gathering bacteria overlords