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Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles
The Guardian ^
Posted on 04/17/2018 6:50:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
04/17/2018 6:50:28 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Unintended consequences comes to mind. Like curing cancer with rabies.
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posted on
04/17/2018 6:51:41 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
To: BenLurkin
Could anything possibly go wrong?
Picture this bug on the loose. Your clothes would fall off you. All your beverage bottles would collapse into goo. The dashboard on your car would melt into a puddle. Every electronic gadget in your house would dissolve.
To: BenLurkin
GRAY GOO! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
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posted on
04/17/2018 6:54:19 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
To: BenLurkin
They’ll have to bury this until the next ‘Rat president.
Otherwise, Big Media won’t be able to publish anti-Republican articles about the island of plastic trash in the Pacific that gets ever-so-much more gargantuan whenever a Republican is elected President.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
04/17/2018 6:55:04 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
“Could anything possibly go wrong?”
My thoughts exactly.
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posted on
04/17/2018 6:55:26 AM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: robroys woman
Thanks. I completely forgot about Gray Goo. That faded away, didn’t it? Looks like it’s being resurrected here in a different way.
To: BenLurkin
MMMMMmmmmm....plastic......
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posted on
04/17/2018 6:58:36 AM PDT
by
LouieFisk
To: BenLurkin
What could possibly go wrong?
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It was a major player in the remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.
But yeah, you don’t hear about it much any more. Maybe that is exactly WHEN we SHOULD be worried. ;-)
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posted on
04/17/2018 6:59:20 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
The enzyme eats plastic bottles, but did they mention that the “by-product” of this consumption is a deadly gas that destroys the ozone layer, kills all plant life, and causes liberals to multiply like Tribbles?
OK, it almost certainly doesn’t do the first two, but let’s make double-damn-sure they don’t cause the third to happen. {;^)
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posted on
04/17/2018 7:00:26 AM PDT
by
Henchster
(Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yeah, it’s all fun and games until somebody loses an (plastic) eye.
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posted on
04/17/2018 7:01:35 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yes, sounds too scary to turn loose. It could be the new kudzu.
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posted on
04/17/2018 7:01:38 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/17/2018 7:02:58 AM PDT
by
petro45acp
(It is just that the left,progressive,socialist,antifa,fascist endgame seems so inhuman...unfree)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Your clothes would fall off you. My winter coat maybe, but I only wear natural fibers for the important stuff like shirts, pants, underwear, socks, etc.
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posted on
04/17/2018 7:04:07 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: Henchster
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posted on
04/17/2018 7:05:05 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: BenLurkin
Larry Nice wrote about something similar to this happening to a very advanced society in ihs Ringworld series.
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posted on
04/17/2018 7:05:16 AM PDT
by
themidnightskulker
(And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
To: themidnightskulker
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posted on
04/17/2018 7:06:37 AM PDT
by
themidnightskulker
(And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
To: petro45acp
I feel sorry for all of you gomers who have those evil black stocked plastic rifle and pistols.
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posted on
04/17/2018 7:09:01 AM PDT
by
themidnightskulker
(And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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