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To: NormsRevenge; tx_eggman
clean up environmental hazards

I have a great idea...

let's engineer one that eats hydrocarbons, and release it in the Gulf to help clean up the oil spill... I mean... what could go wrong?

/sarc
20 posted on 05/20/2010 11:58:35 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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To: SpinnerWebb
I mean... what could go wrong? /sarc

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23 posted on 05/20/2010 12:02:07 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: SpinnerWebb

“let’s engineer one that eats hydrocarbons, and release it in the Gulf to help clean up the oil spill... I mean... what could go wrong?”

An organism engineered to eat hydrocarbons in order to cleanup oil spills was created in the 70s. It was the first patented organism. To my knowledge it was never released.


24 posted on 05/20/2010 12:06:21 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: SpinnerWebb
let's engineer one that eats hydrocarbons, and release it in the Gulf to help clean up the oil spill... I mean... what could go wrong?

We could call it Wormwood ...

28 posted on 05/20/2010 1:17:14 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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