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: ProtectOurFreedom
6 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.
7 posted on
04/17/2018 6:55:26 AM PDT by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yeah, it’s all fun and games until somebody loses an (plastic) eye.
13 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.
14 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: 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.
16 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: ProtectOurFreedom
***The dashboard on your car would melt into a puddle.***
DODGE has a corner on that! My Dodge Pickup dash has shattered into a hundred pieces!
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Assuming it is engineered into an organism.
The story is about an enzyme, which is a protein catalyst not an organism.
One would expect it to be deployed as part of an organism though.
28 posted on
04/17/2018 7:19:12 AM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
So Crude oil is definitely organic ('cause its smooshed up living dinosaurs and stuff) and this little bug has figured out how to eat the refined products that we produce out if petroleum?
Besides glass, metal and wood, what have we been making our world out of since the 1950s?
I hope they have good containment!
REMEMBER FUKASHIMA ! !
29 posted on
04/17/2018 7:19:52 AM PDT by
Delta 21
(Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Could anything possibly go wrong?The Andromeda Strain (1970 movie)
34 posted on
04/17/2018 7:27:22 AM PDT by
ealgeone
To: ProtectOurFreedom
“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.”
There goes Nancy Pelosi’s face.
45 posted on
04/17/2018 7:51:09 AM PDT by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneoCalifornia dreamin' (California dreamin') On such a winter's day)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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.
...
I think the bacteria needs a certain environment to thrive that wouldn’t be encountered in normal every day life.
52 posted on
04/17/2018 8:00:15 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I watched some sci-fi whereas the very thing occurred.
The bacteria that was to solve oil spills and pollution, mutliplied, mutated and ate any & all hydrocarbons and similar polymers.
No rubber, plastics, fuels, waxes, countless drugs, lubricants... put the planet into a pre-industrial age, forever.
56 posted on
04/17/2018 8:21:30 AM PDT by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
58 posted on
04/17/2018 8:41:27 AM PDT by
GOPJ
( "Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance." - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
“Picture this bug on the loose.”
Its already on the loose, the enzyme was isolated from a naturally occurring strain in the environment. The modified enzyme is only marginally more effective.
61 posted on
04/17/2018 9:12:37 AM PDT by
Brooklyn Attitude
(The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Picture instead that the bug adapts to becoming one of our intestinal microbes. You won’t even need to take the plastic wrapper off that microwave burrito, just eat the whole thing and let the bacteria worry about it!
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Several years ago I read a science fiction novel about a mutated plastic-eating bacterium. Great, until it got loose and started destroying everything made of plastic. I can't recall th title now. Great cautionary tale, though.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
And God forbid it makes it’s way into a hospital.
78 posted on
04/17/2018 6:32:26 PM PDT by
Amberdawn
(If Leftists Didn't Live By Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
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