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Did April 1st come early this year?

03/18/2022 8:18 AM

Invisibility - A bad idea for a car, maybe a better idea for a tank...

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Re: Did April 1st come early this year?

03/18/2022 8:44 AM

Word has it m it started out this way…

in dark smoke filled back room a Mercedes Benz think tank gathered,,,

Engineer: We need to come up with a better way to find your car in a parking lot.

Designer: I have an idea…

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03/18/2022 12:35 PM

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03/18/2022 9:37 PM

At least it wasn't the 71 days early like in 2021.

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03/19/2022 5:47 AM

Hot off the press:Just what we need,another immortal bacteria that can wreck our economy.

A bacteria has be isolated that eats all metals and alloys containing iron.Cars,railroad tracks,rebar,it does not matter.It turns the metal into rust and will cause the eventual collapse of all metal containing structures.Bridges will crumble,buildings will collapse under their own weight.

They have named the bacteria Slooflirpa aytogi.

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03/19/2022 9:07 AM

A bacteria has be isolated that eats all metals and alloys containing iron.Cars,railroad tracks,rebar,it does not matter.It turns the metal into rust

Move over oxidation, you have a new neighbor...

On a similar direction/distraction, that doesn't really belong on a early April 1st post... a bacteria was develop/discovered about 20+ years ago??? to eat crude oil.

It was its planed uses was to possible clean up oil spills...

Just as long as it can't survive in our/the worlds reserves... that would be bad...

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03/19/2022 1:37 PM

Bacteria, like all life forms, are only looking out for themselves. It's foolish to create something that can get out of control.

I'm wondering how long before someone creates a bacterium that eats the plastic in the Pacific Ocean. Once it has finished that meal, it might find tastier plastic that we're still using.

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03/19/2022 1:46 PM

It is interesting that petroleum originated from biological life… and when you really look at it… it’s believable.

And that other thing… Bacteria that eats plastic,… done

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03/19/2022 2:21 PM

"Gray goo (also spelled grey goo) is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves, a scenario that has been called ecophagy ("eating the environment", more literally "eating the habitation") ..."

..."Five years ago, scientists created a single-celled synthetic organism that, with only 473 genes, was the simplest living cell ever known. However, this bacteria-like organism behaved strangely when growing and dividing, producing cells with wildly different shapes and sizes.

Now, scientists have identified seven genes that can be added to tame the cells’ unruly nature, causing them to neatly divide into uniform orbs. This achievement, a collaboration between the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Bits and Atoms, is described in the journal Cell."....

https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-life-forged-in-a-lab-scientists-create-synthetic-cell-that-grows-and-divides-normally/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo#:~:text=Gray%20goo%20(also%20spelled%20grey,environment%22%2C%20more%20literally%20%22eating

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03/19/2022 6:30 PM

It is interesting how this thread evolved from an invisible car....BUT there are already enzymes that eat carbon compounds such as oil spills etc.. Think about it, how come we have beautiful beaches world wide considering the Millions of gallons of oil sunk in WW2, where's the rubber from your worn out tires? There should be piles of rubber dust 10 ft. high along all the roads...but no, nature eats it, all we have to do is figure out how to harness nature.

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03/19/2022 6:32 PM

It’s called progression…

Anyways… as far as pollution… Well, dilution helps…

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04/01/2022 9:07 AM

April 1st did come early this year.

The iron eating bacteria Slooflirpa aytogi spelled backwards =

I got ya April fools.

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