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Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic
gambit3 writes "A newly discovered microbe dubbed Halomonas titanicae is chewing its way through the wreck of the Titanic and leaving little behind except a fine dust, researchers report in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 'In 1995, I was predicting that Titanic had another 30 years,' said Henrietta Mann, a civil engineering adjunct professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 'It's deteriorating much faster than that now.'"
I say we surface and nuke the entire site from sea level. It's the only way to be sure those bugs don't attack our buildings and transportation. If they make it out of there, it'll be 9/11 times a hundred.
My work here is dung.
I, for one, welcome our new metal-devouring overlords.
Ever since I saw the movie as a teenager, I have looked forward to the day that I die and become a ghost, so that I may travel down to the wreckage and meditate amid the sadness of loss and the elegance of a finer age. Reading this I am completely lost. I have always believed that no ability to move through time comes with the afterlife, as otherwise ghosts from the future would have already influenced the present (however rare ghost-to-man interactions may be).
Tell me why can this microbe exist to destroy?
Especially since it didn't have any sails to begin with.
All you fighters better turn in your plate mail, shields, and swords, and switch classes.
Might I suggest thief or magic-user?
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Why would the Prime Minister of Britain be (re)releasing a movie?
Some call it dust, but others, like myself, call it poo.
I will bend like a reed in the wind.
I guess Iron man is not the answer to the problem.