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Algae Can Carry Cargo
Steve Nixon writes "Recently, a team of scientists devised a way to make single-celled algae bear loads over distances of several centimeters--a tactic that the researchers say could prove useful in tiny machines. Algae and other single-celled organisms power their movements with molecular motors. 'Scientists have long coveted these motors for use in micromachinery,' notes chemist Douglas B. Weibel of Harvard University.
Cute little bastards, lugging cargo around.
and go on strike. Can't you just see the little picket signs circling around the pond?
And stoners can again get pizza and Mountain Dew delivered directly to their sofa by this tireless algae crew (better than the old slime molds that used to do the job!)
Please tell a geek deeply rooted in electrical and software systems, why this is helpful and why it couldnt be replaced with a simpler solution...
;)
Maybe teach them to clean keyboards?
I'm getting married Sept 17th and will need help moving furniture and boxes of geek books...
my geeklog
... but can you get a teensy, tiny corporate logo on their sides?
Dog is my co-pilot.
I, for one, welcome our new cargo-carrying slaves.
But the real question is if they can make tiny pyramids.
Old and busted: TCP/IP
New Hotness: TCP Over Algae!
unless they get a strong union like the Teamsters.
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Just imagine a picket line of these guys
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They for one welcome their new light emitting, load passing overlords.
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with the contents of my shower.
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
PETA = People for the Ethical Treatment of Algae
Recently, a team of scientists devised a way to make single-celled algae bear loads over distances of several centimeters
With this kind of gas prices any help we get will be appreciated. Thanks Algae. I have a request, Could you please carry me and my car to the work everyday?
Yeah, but can they carry Linux?
Dance Dance Revolution.
(looking into a microscope...)
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Ah, yes - there goes a 1, a 1, a 0, another 0, a 1, a 0
A bit slow on the bandwidth, but your software is environmentally friendly!
Relax, dude, nobody moved your cheese. It just got moldy, and then it was like "hey, there's more sunlight overe there", and it crawled over by the window.
I may twist orthodoxy to partly justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely.
Go down to the shoreline and step on an inclined algae-covered rock.
I asure you that they'll bear your load a lot further than a few centimeters. (Although getting your ass to the emergency room afterward is your problem)
... being a well-known ball of slime, could be useful in organizing the algae to toil in your underground sugar caves.
eukaryote!