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The Bacteria Whisperer
Wired News ^
| 04/03
| Steve Silberman
Posted on 03/21/2003 7:56:35 PM PST by gore3000
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This is an excerpt because the article is quite long but well worth reading.
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posted on
03/21/2003 7:56:36 PM PST
by
gore3000
To: gore3000
The bugs are talking to each other. And plotting against us. I knew it! I KNEW it!
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posted on
03/21/2003 7:58:23 PM PST
by
merrin
To: sourcery; blam; Ernest_at_the_Beach
bump
To: *crevo_list; Ahban; Con X-Poser; AndrewC; Dataman; scripter
Let's call a few guys in.
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:02:46 PM PST
by
gore3000
To: gore3000
The bugs are talking to each other. And plotting against us.And the French have already surrendered. Yet, Chirac and Blix are reluctant to approve antibiotics, as they don't see an eminent threat.
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:05:00 PM PST
by
rintense
(The tyrant will soon be gone... or extremely dead.)
To: PatrickHenry; jennyp; Right Wing Professor; gomaaa
And calling some from the other side
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:05:20 PM PST
by
gore3000
To: gore3000
highly social, intricately networked, and teeming with interactions.So now PETA will defend these guys?
All in all, these guys are nasty. Living 100,000 plus years on the planet teaches you something. Survival.
Look on the bright side. 70,000 years from now, the Rats will understand it too.
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:14:26 PM PST
by
lizma
To: Libertarianize the GOP
I like it when these people 'out in left field' are successful and then recognized for it.
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:15:52 PM PST
by
blam
To: gore3000
It is interesting article. Certainly with enough bumps we will achieve "quorum sensing"!
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:16:22 PM PST
by
bwteim
To: gore3000
Ho Hum. This kind of signaling has been known for fifty years. It's really embarassing what the gene-sequencing people will shout about.
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:20:03 PM PST
by
Alain2112
(This Space Intentionally Left Blank)
To: gore3000
Picturing one of these beastie-weasties in a T-shirt that says "If you can't run with the big 'crobes, stay in the Petri dish!"
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:21:03 PM PST
by
185JHP
( Brisance. Puissance. Resolve.)
To: 185JHP
Oh, man. Where is Gary Larson when we need him?
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:30:51 PM PST
by
Billy_bob_bob
("He who will not reason is a bigot;He who cannot is a fool;He who dares not is a slave." W. Drummond)
To: Alain2112
Ho Hum. This kind of signaling has been known for fifty years. It's really embarassing what the gene-sequencing people will shout about. Really? Who first came across it at the microbe level?
I just read Prey and to be honest, it is one the scariest books I've read in a while. Still the concepts in it are wonderfully intriguing. I wonder if we are closer to the possiblities Crichtdon wrote about than we thought.
Regards,
Boiler Plate
To: merrin
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:36:22 PM PST
by
LayoutGuru2
(Victor Boc -> 5-8 weekdays on 860 AM - Open your mind)
To: Billy_bob_bob
You got it.
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:38:44 PM PST
by
185JHP
( Brisance. Puissance. Resolve.)
To: gore3000
I read this book in high school, or maybe jr. high called
The Hephaestus Plague (which was turned into the William Castle classic Bug! starring the immortal Brad Dillman) and in that novel, these bugs who light fires and eat the ashes, come to the surfaces, but it turns out that its really the bacteria inside them that are controlling them.
The bugs are having trouble reproducing which will mean death for the bacteria so they come to the surface and do terrorism until Bradford Dillman can get them to breed with some other roach, then, their survival ensured, they go back under the earth and I think they take Bradford Dillman with them.
The novel was way better then the movie but the film was alright in a mid-seventies, nostolgic kind of way. If the novel had a fault it would be the title, who can remember it, let alone pronounce it? That's probably why they simplified it to Bug! for the major motion picture release. People can remember and pronounce Bug!
Which just goes to show you that, if art isn't dead, it probably should be.
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:41:07 PM PST
by
Duke Nukum
([T]he only true mystery is that our very lives are governed by dead people.)
To: gore3000
Paging Michael Crichton.
To: gore3000
WOnders of Creation bump
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posted on
03/21/2003 8:44:58 PM PST
by
Ahban
To: lizma
Living 100,000 plus years on the planet teaches you something. SurvivalBacteria per se are perhaps 2 1/4 to 3 billion years old. Or 7000, depending on your philosophy ;-)
To: Boiler Plate
E. coli is able to transmit antibiotic resistance to
Salmonella sp and other pathogens. This has been known at least since I took micro in the 1980s.
Sounds like another quasi-Nobel prize for a deserving minority article.
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