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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."

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  1. Re:Nice idea, but... by TrentTheThief · · Score: 0, Troll

    Until you've walked a mile through a mine field, you can just stow your holier than thou attitude, noob.

  2. Re:Jay Little, or Ash from Ashentech: HELLO BOYS! by somersault · · Score: 0, Troll

    he trolled the hell out of me no less & then "stragely backed off"

    First, I wasn't trolling. I was even modded insightful on the post that you keep linking to. Thanks again ;)

    I backed off because you obviously are not the type of person to quit even after you have lost so badly that you need to pretend to be other people who agree with yourself. I didn't see the point in it. But you chose to keep going. So I've decided I might as well harass you for a while since you truly deserve it, you girlfriend beating loser. I'd really enjoy knocking you down a peg or two, but I bet since you're in the US and you're such a paranoid fuckwit, that you probably have lots of guns, so it's not worth it. lol

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    which is totally what she said