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Engineered Bacteria Glows To Reveal Land Mines
MikeChino writes "Sifting through minefields to remove hidden threats is a dangerous, tedious, and expensive process. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh recently announced that they have engineered a strain of bacteria that glows green in the presence of explosives, making mine detection a snap. The new strain of bacteria can be sprayed onto local affected areas or air-dropped over entire fields of mines. Within a few hours the bacteria strain begins to glow wherever traces of explosive chemicals are present."
So can I add this the list of possible humanity-ending catalysts and/or future Michael Crichton novel plotlines? I vote to call it "glow goo" or perhaps simply "bactoswarm".
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Now we'll all have to be dunked in a vat of this stuff every time I go through TSA security. We get more like sheep every day.
Nullius in verba
Yet *another* source of light pollution.
I hope that as the bacteria glows, it arranges itself into numbers indicating how many mines are nearby. It should making identifying the mined locations a simple matter of elimination.
Do they have a bacteria that can help me with FreeCell? I was already pretty good at Minesweeper.
Well sure, but who has to go recover the goat? For that you need goat-recovering dogs.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
And then dog-recovering ponies.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
... on leashes.