Learning (And Harvesting) from Extremophiles

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Learning (And Harvesting) from Extremophiles

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 2, 2004 @04:00AM from the long-term-effects dept.

kudyadi writes "BBC News has an article on the threat posed to extremophiles by anxious prospectors ready to exploit their unique nature. Potential discoveries include glycoprotein, which prevents Antarctic fish from freezing, and an extract from green algae for use in cosmetic skin treatment, and anti-tumour properties in a strain of yeast. This article explains the issue more lucidly, but in the end, one must consider the environmental ramifications of this biological exploitation before moving ahead full scale. So how is Tux in danger? Let me remind you of a thing called the food chain and then read this."

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fo shizzle by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-02 04:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

my frost pizzole
no... by telbij · 2004-02-02 04:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

No, you're thinking of Mountain Dew dudes.
Re:Oh. by haystor · 2004-02-02 04:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Stop this madness now! The BSD Daemon has been hunted to near extinction and now BSD is dying.

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Re:The human race is doomed by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-02 04:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Not only that, but vacuum tube computers are from the 40's, although there probably still were in operation during the 60's
Japanese cause trouble by Krapangor · 2004-02-02 04:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

We have these problems mainly due to the huge Japanese fishing fleet.
They use nets illegal in most other countries and usually ignore any fishing limits. Furthermore they are usually cutting the nets off in stroms so that these ghost nets float around in the sea killing huge numbers of animals.
I think that I don't have the mention that they kill whales and dolphins.
If you want to stop this madness then you should join the PETA's boycott of Japanese products.
Yes, this includes anime.

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Re:Oh. by proj_2501 · 2004-02-02 04:29 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Barefoot skiing on pavement? YIKES!
looking for answers by NoGuffCheck · 2004-02-02 04:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Extremophiles are micro-organisms that grow optimally in some of earth's most hostile environments of temperature

have they tried looking at the area between SCO and the truth? or Gatesies fist for that matter??

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The solution is obvious by rs79 · 2004-02-02 05:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Get SCO to patent Antactica.

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