But does it feeds at a fast rate?
If it did and we could control it, it would be amazing.
[QUOTE=dass;35308698]But does it feeds at a fast rate?
If it did and we could control it, it would be amazing.[/QUOTE]It probably consumes at a rather slow rate, and probably can't live healthily (or not at all) outside its native environment.
So if it evolves and starts spreading to uncontrolled areas, the glass and metal industry will [I]SKYROCKET[/I]. Sound like a perfect corporate espionage plan.........
In any case, all they have to do is create a large basin sealed with metal/cement and start using that as a plastic only landfill, then introduce the bacteria into the basin.
The constant of mother nature
If it exists, something fuckin' eats it.
[QUOTE=mac338;35307257]Would be cool to scoop out a lot of the shit in the atlantic plastic current cycle thing and use thing fungi to do the thing with the one thing and are[/QUOTE]
yeah, that'd be good, but only if the biologists can even go so far as to how do look go more like in an orderly fashion
Breaking News: New fungi eats every fucking little thing it comes into contact with
Couldn't they just do this in a controllable environment? Take a warehouse, anaerobically seal it, and then get to it.
[QUOTE=lapsus_;35306755]On the other side, Imagine if these fungi spread and all your plastic stuff meant to last rots, eaten away by spores..[/QUOTE]
It'll be like Scott Westerfeld's 'Uglies' series only with plastic instead of gasoline.
For God's sake, man! Think of the tits!
Actually, would this bacteria even eat whatever they put in breasts?
how the hell did they find this out
i like imagining scientists throwing plastic bottles around in the amazon trying to see if something happens
Reasons like this are why we really need to save rainforests. We never know what phenomenal things living in such life-dense areas could do to help the planet
[QUOTE=DamnFool;35310748]Breaking News: New fungi eats every fucking little thing it comes into contact with[/QUOTE]
"[I]The Blob[/I]" is a reality!
In just microscopic form.
Sounds like an interesting breed, though if we had a variant of the fungus that broke up plastics into oils, that'd be awesome too.
Nonetheless a plastic-eating fungus would really help clean up landfills. Do they produce anything useful as a side effect?
This was also covered in an article dated 4 Aug. 2011.
I guess there's no hurry then.
[url=http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-04/living/fungus.eats.plastic_1_plastic-pollution-fungus-fungi?_s=PM:LIVING]Link[/url]
[QUOTE=ewitwins;35310815]Couldn't they just do this in a controllable environment? Take a warehouse, anaerobically seal it, and then get to it.[/QUOTE]
We really really suck as sealing away life that we aren't trying to eradicate.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;35318416]We really really suck as sealing away life that we aren't trying to eradicate.[/QUOTE]Not really. Bacteria are used for a plethora of industrial processes, like insulin synthesis, sewage treatment, biofuel synthesis, and a lot of other things.
That being said, making an entire warehouse airtight is probably excessive and difficult. Most processes that involve anaerobic bacteria have them in a tank akin to the average industrial fluid storage tank, but a bit more robust.
I wonder if you can weaponize this fungi.
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;35322643]I wonder if you can weaponize this fungi.[/QUOTE]It's an anaerobic bacteria, it's likely not all that fond of oxygen, much less to the point where it'll happily be dispersed by munitions.
Will...Will it eat all of these..?
[img]http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/et-cartridge-atari-249x300.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Rageguy;35322678]Will...Will it eat all of these..?
[img]http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/et-cartridge-atari-249x300.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]We can only hope. In the meantime, there's always thermite.
Could backfire and cause a epidemic where mankind can no longer use plastic.
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