Posted on 09/23/2015 11:45:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Everyone is surrounded by a unique "cloud" of millions of their own bacteria, according to scientists at the University of Oregon in the US.
Walk through someone else's cloud, and it will "rain" bacteria on your skin and be breathed into your lungs.
The study on 11 people, published in the journal PeerJ, showed it was possible to identify people from their microbial miasma.
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Groups of bacteria in the cloud included Streptococcus, which is common in the mouth, and the skin bugs Propionibacterium and Corynebacterium.
The researchers argue the mix may have a "forensic application" to detect whether someone had passed through a room.
However, it is not clear how much someone's microbial cloud changes over time.
Adam Altrichter, a research assistant on the project, told the BBC News website: "There is a germaphobe aspect to this, but we need to understand that we're not sterile and this is something completely natural and healthy."
He said the size of someone's cloud was still untested, but was likely to be a few feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
all new meaning behind that Rolling Stones song...
Hey you get off of my cloud
See my #15
GMTA
I’ll have to show this to my (smoking-hot) wife!
Oh, my!
Pardon me.
:-)
Every since I saw Mike Rowe’s show on germs, one segment was about airplanes, it re-enforced my decision to stop flying 15 years ago.
LOL!
Some people’s clouds are larger than others.Like smell ‘em across the room large.
I hereby declare the space occupied by my microbial cloud to be a sovereign nation.
Anyone attempting to illegally immigrate into the borders of my cloud without a visa will be subject to assault by my microbial air force. You’ve been warned!
My cloud is bigger.
hey ... you
get offa my cloud
sounds like a microbial aggression.
“He said the size of someone’s cloud was still untested, but was likely to be a few feet.”
Hmmm. Turns out one’s aura is real after all, but instead of being all pretty like, it’s simply nasty.
“I’d like to bump my microbial cloud into her microbial cloud and see if we can start a storm.”
The perfect storm, perhaps?
I’m sure there’s a global warming joke in this somewhere.
I wonder if it would be possible to scan an area with a laser or a microwave beam from a distance and look for the unique diffraction pattern of an individual based on their unique “microbiological cloud”.
Ahhhhh, so Howard Hughes was right then...where’d I put those tissue boxes...?
Sounds from the article that the mad scientists are working on something like that already.
How many gigabytes can I upload to it?
Can’t you just imagine the size and, um, distinctiveness, of Michael Moore’s ‘microbial cloud’?
No, I can’t either.
Trying to imagine such a thing would truly boggle the senses, and I’d prefer not to have my senses boggled right now...
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