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Ground-based bacteria may be making it rain
New Scientist ^
| Jan 12, 2008
| Devin Powell
Posted on 01/12/2009 5:36:30 PM PST by decimon
BACTERIA may be able to make it rain without ever leaving the ground - if the powerful detergents they produce can reach the clouds, that is.
Previous studies have suggested that bacteria can affect cloud formation. For example, an analysis of snow samples has hinted that bacteria swept up into the atmosphere trigger precipitation so that they can return to the ground.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism
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Germs for Georgia. Someone tell Perdue about this.
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posted on
01/12/2009 5:36:30 PM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
Save the plankton, kill the whales!
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posted on
01/12/2009 5:46:39 PM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: decimon
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posted on
01/12/2009 5:47:02 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Only the hypnotized never lie)
To: decimon
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posted on
01/12/2009 5:48:43 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(Apparitions are in the eye of the beholder)
To: decimon
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posted on
01/12/2009 5:48:43 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(Apparitions are in the eye of the beholder)
To: decimon
This explains why it reians after you wash your car. The detergents evaporate off the car and affect the formation of clouds.
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01/12/2009 5:56:45 PM PST
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: ffusco
This explains why it reians after you wash your car. The detergents evaporate off the car and affect the formation of clouds.There ya go. The Southeast needs more car washes and laundromats.
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posted on
01/12/2009 6:00:47 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
...bacteria swept up into the atmosphere trigger precipitation so that they can return to the ground. Gee, they're smart!
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01/12/2009 6:03:47 PM PST
by
MarineBrat
(The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
To: decimon
Well, the warmer it gets (globull warming), the more bacteria there will be, the more clouds will form (so they claim), the less sunlight will get through, the more it will rain, the cooler Earth will become. It will also flush CO2 from the atmosphere, as if CO2 is actually a problem anyway. Water vapor is about 95% of the greenhouse effect on Earth.
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01/12/2009 6:06:32 PM PST
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: MarineBrat
As smart as a rabies virus that infects saliva and makes its host get all mean and like to bite?
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posted on
01/12/2009 6:07:24 PM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
To: MarineBrat
Gee, they're smart! Well, they're Airborne.
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posted on
01/12/2009 6:12:44 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
Snomax: used in ski slope snow making machines is mostly the bacteria Pseudomonas Syringae, freeze-dried then irradiated for your safety.
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01/12/2009 6:27:04 PM PST
by
Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: Carry_Okie
I guess I’d better clean my house, pronto!
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01/12/2009 6:40:31 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Cool ping.
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01/12/2009 6:42:08 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: decimon
we need some of that bacteria sent to California. Santa Ana’s today, dry as hell.
To: sasquatch; forester
This is amazing, and yes, I think it may have associated roots.
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01/12/2009 7:14:52 PM PST
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Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: MarineBrat
Gee, they're smart!Smarter than reporters, apparently. That is a psychotic sentence up there, written by an insane person.
To: B4Ranch; sasquatch; forester
I had a hunch based upon the hypothesis in
Shemitta. I followed the link, and than another in the article to get the name of the bacterium. It's
Pseudomonas syringae. I plopped the name into Google as a literal along with "sheep" and got 12,700 hits.
Methinks I'm going to look into this in some detail.
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01/12/2009 7:19:45 PM PST
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Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: Carry_Okie; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel
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01/12/2009 8:33:30 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: decimon; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
Microbe, yourcrobe, everybody's crobe.
Thanks decimon.
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01/12/2009 8:34:34 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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