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Nanobacteria Discovered?
mfh writes "The BBC is reporting that a new form of life has been discovered, nanobacteria, which was previously only theorized by Finnish researchers Kajander and Ciftcioglu. A team lead by Dr John Lieske of the Mayo Clinic claims they have found irrefutable evidence of the existence of nanobacteria, which is likely responsible for a plethora of illnesses."
Great. more reasons never to leave my desk. so many nasty little bugs out there ;)
Machine9dotNet
Do 10^9 nanobacteria make up a regular one?
I guess I'd better hurry up and get my patent for the anti^H^H^H^Hnanobiotics submitted.
-- Stu
/. ID under 2,000. I feel old now.
one word: medichlorians.
umop apisdn aw pow f,uop aseald
now, how long until we have nanoyogurt?
The Mayo Clinic is named after the famed 19th century doctor Charles Mayonowski. His family moved to the US from Poland in 1857 where they changed their name to remove the ethnicity of it (this was the mid 1800s, remember)
Charles was born in January 1850 but the exact date isn't known. He was an average student in early school but showed a strong interest in biology. His father would often find him in the barn late at night dissecting newborn piglets.
In 1869, Charles went to England to attend school at Oxford. He later received his medical degree but had to come back to America after suspicion was cast on him when several dozen fresh graves were robbed of their corpses and were later found wrapped in burlap in the university incinerators. (the bodies showed signs of expert dissection).
Moving to Minnesota, he founded a small clinic for the poor. Many of the patients disappeared but Mayo was found to be an excellent practitioner all around. When he died the funeral was attended by over 20,000 people. Many of them relatives of the poor who disappeared (and were presumed dissected) but knew of the importance of the knowledge he gleaned from his bloody experiments.
Actually... that's all bullshit. Sorry.
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welcome our new nanobacteria overlords...
if only I had a 6nm can o' Duffs to present as a tribute.... Doh!
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What happens is during your life, you get an infection somewhere. Most likely it is in your gums.
Dentists were overjoyed when they learned about this, by the way.
Finally, a way to get people to floss:
Floss, or you die.
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Yeah, you'll read about it on Snopes.com one day.
:)
"Was the founder of the Mayo Clinic really a psycopathic butcher?"
Beverley: It appears to be a nanobacterial infection, Captain. It's resequencing Barclay's DNA.
Picard: Can you reverse the process?
Beverley: Not until after the next commercial break.
Barclay: Could we let someone *else* have *his* DNA resequenced next week? This is getting old.
I believe it was called: midichlorians
Before I part with'em: two pennies weigh ~4.996+/-0.014g, have a zinc core, and the face of Lincoln. You can keep 'em.
Now we just need someone to invent/discover nano-penecillin.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Yes, exactly. Unless we have a link, how are we going to *not* click it so we don't have to RTFA?
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