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A trail of microbes (could bacteria constantly dropping off our bodies allow tracking of us?)
Science Magazine ^ | 3/11/16 | Kai Kupferschmidt

Posted on 03/16/2016 1:08:57 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: Yo-Yo

Anything that smells.


21 posted on 03/16/2016 1:30:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: LibWhacker

This tracking probably works better with hippies.


22 posted on 03/16/2016 1:35:31 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: ifinnegan

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23 posted on 03/16/2016 1:44:40 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: LibWhacker

MOST of your “smell” comes from the microbes living on your skin...DUH!

That’s why you stink less if you bathe!


24 posted on 03/16/2016 1:47:41 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: SubMareener

Thanks.

The DNA ID in GATTACA was not supposed to be based on personal microbial DNA, though.

This personal microbiome idea is the novel thing here.


25 posted on 03/16/2016 1:52:19 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BereanBrain

Dogs ARE NOT smelling the microbes we drop, DUH! Otherwise, they could follow someone on a bicycle, but can’t, DOH!


26 posted on 03/16/2016 1:53:18 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: jonrick46

I don’t think the Bacteria App is necessary.

According to Kelly Bundy, a woman can smell another woman on her man.


27 posted on 03/16/2016 1:55:37 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: LibWhacker

Won’t work.
Once thieves know about it, they’ll bring outside residue to cover their tracks. Heck, someone will even start manufacturing “anti-tracking biotic residues” for privacy purposes.


28 posted on 03/16/2016 2:02:51 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: LibWhacker

OK... so how does a bloodhound do it? Tell different scent traces apart, track them for miles?

Is it a bacterial mix? Or something else?

Let’s ask McGruff the Crime Dog!


29 posted on 03/16/2016 2:10:08 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

IMO, it’s mostly by the scent of your skin cells. YOu can take a shower and use deodorant, and a dog can still follow you. Even if you use anti-bacterial soap and scrub thoroughly. Even if you use bleach. Now, if you’re real stinky because you haven’t showered, I’m sure the dog will be able to pick up on that, too.


30 posted on 03/16/2016 2:24:21 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Wasn’t there a Tom Cruise movie about this? Or was it Keanu Reeves?


31 posted on 03/16/2016 2:40:40 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: LibWhacker

Kind of like a natural “spy dust” from forty years ago. Remember when the Russians would plant some in a person’s apartment and could track them wherever they went by looking for spy dust particles?


32 posted on 03/16/2016 2:54:08 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: LibWhacker

I love my microherds.


33 posted on 03/16/2016 3:07:00 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: LibWhacker

I am sure there is a trail.

But it goes beyond dreaming to think that anyone could follow it, or get a conviction beyond reasonable doubt.

I remember a few years back a couple college students thought of a great project - to classify and identify all life forms in one cubic centimeter of sea water.

They thought there would be one hundred, maybe two hundred species of bacteria.

Last I heard they were up over 25,000 and still counting!


34 posted on 03/16/2016 3:13:33 PM PDT by djf ("It's not about being nice, it's about being competent!" - Donald Trump)
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“Bacteria” to dp0622 - “We like you, Buddy; but please cut
down on splashing on the toilet water after every shower!
We think you smell like Miss Kitty’s bordello!”


35 posted on 03/16/2016 3:28:32 PM PDT by Twinkie (The condition of humanity is worse than we think.. John 3:16)
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To: Smittie
It won't be long before they call for micro-chipping everyone so they won't have to worry about collecting evidence just track where you've been.

How do you know that the DNA of all new born babies isn't being extracted and entered into a govt. database?????

36 posted on 03/16/2016 3:28:48 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Greetings Ladies and Germs ping.

37 posted on 03/16/2016 3:56:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Twinkie

lol!!!!


38 posted on 03/16/2016 4:06:27 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: DeepInTheHeartOfTexas
My dog didn't seem to know.

He doesn't really care, all he wants to do is fetch, eat and lick his privates.....like all dogs.

40 posted on 03/16/2016 4:47:43 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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