OrangeSquid wrote:
>what happens if the microbes evolve into something that may be harmful?
I worry about stuff like this every time somebody decides to take a core sample from an ancient, far-underground arctic lake, or what have you. Who frigging knows what might pop up once the stuff thaws?
Years ago, I sat in on a conference about the possibilities of terraforming Mars. By bizarre coincidence, guess who happened to be a major presenter on the topic of creating an atmosphere there? Bernie Goetz, who earlier had unfortunately decided to ride the New York subway system (think hard) and wound up a household word.
Go figure.
And on the topic of whether there's already life on the red planet (horrible movie), it just seemed way too weird when NASA held that press conference awhile back. They announced in essence, that they'd finally pretty much established that there was life on Mars. Except that it was long dead, on Earth.
Some Americans can pull off wryness and non-guffaw humor, but that never seems to make it onto television in the U.S.
Yet it's part of the national culture across the Pond.
I also agree the mullets have to go!
Would like to see a kitchen version of the show where teams have to make edible meals from whatever happens to be left in the cabinet... ketchup, beer, flour, beer, etc.
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OrangeSquid wrote:
>what happens if the microbes evolve into something that may be harmful?
I worry about stuff like this every time somebody decides to take a core sample from an ancient, far-underground arctic lake, or what have you. Who frigging knows what might pop up once the stuff thaws?
Years ago, I sat in on a conference about the possibilities of terraforming Mars. By bizarre coincidence, guess who happened to be a major presenter on the topic of creating an atmosphere there? Bernie Goetz, who earlier had unfortunately decided to ride the New York subway system (think hard) and wound up a household word.
Go figure.
And on the topic of whether there's already life on the red planet (horrible movie), it just seemed way too weird when NASA held that press conference awhile back. They announced in essence, that they'd finally pretty much established that there was life on Mars. Except that it was long dead, on Earth.
Have to agree I liked the Brit version better!
Some Americans can pull off wryness and non-guffaw humor, but that never seems to make it onto television in the U.S.
Yet it's part of the national culture across the Pond.
I also agree the mullets have to go!
Would like to see a kitchen version of the show where teams have to make edible meals from whatever happens to be left in the cabinet... ketchup, beer, flour, beer, etc.
Wait a second, that's Welsh rarebit, isn't it?