Eli is a bit burnt out
Things have been frantic the last few weeks at Rabett Labs, and Eli is a bit frazzled. Don't look for anything until Monday. A happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
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Have a good break. Hope the rest does you good.
Toughen up you whimpy socialist thickshit.
Hope you enjoyed your turkey and festivities!
Where should we send your holiday gift?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/778d/
Hey, I didn't mean to suggest _you_ were a stuffed rabbit (grin).
Here's an oddball thought for the holidays. Any chance we're injecting methane-eating bacteria into underground petroleum reserves by drilling wells? It'd be unfortunate if the petroleum industry started getting CO2 instead of natural gas out of the ground, after a few microbes got into the strata. Just a thought.
I noticed this in a ScienceExpress newsbit today:
"It is the hardiest “methanotrophic” bacterium yet discovered, which makes it a likely candidate for use in reducing methane gas emissions from landfills, mines, industrial wastes, geothermal power plants and other sources.
“This is a really tough methane-consuming organism that lives in a much more acidic environment than any we’ve seen before,” said Dunfield, who is the lead author of the paper. “It belongs to a rather mysterious family of bacteria (called Verrucomicrobia) ....”
Methanotrophic bacteria consume methane as their only source of energy and convert it to carbon dioxide during their digestive process.....
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