The moon is covered with 1 foot of dust. Under that is a geologically inactive planetoid. By consuming matter in any form, these bacteria would release some material byproducts. Sorry, but it wouldn't release gas. Now if the rock is consumed as so claimed, the moon would become entirely aerated and actually increase it's size significanly. But would no longer contain "rock" only dust.
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The moon is covered with 1 foot of dust. Under that is a geologically inactive planetoid. By consuming matter in any form, these bacteria would release some material byproducts. Sorry, but it wouldn't release gas. Now if the rock is consumed as so claimed, the moon would become entirely aerated and actually increase it's size significanly. But would no longer contain "rock" only dust.
I wait for a nice Apple anouncement all day and suddenly /. has 30 fake articles an hour?! End the madness!