New methane organisms discovered

phys.org ^ | October 23, 2015 | by Gene Tyson & Provided by: University of Queensland

[thackney]

I don’t think many that drive to work would be happy with the price of fuel if Saudi would suddenly stop exporting oil forever.

[Rodamala]

What is this “work” thing you say we would be driving to? You mean there is an alternative to a life spent sitting at home and collecting perpetual unemployment?

[Don W]

I accidentally spilt some in my garage 9 years ago (I was converting a couple of old propane tanks into air pigs for the race car).

It took weeks to get the odour out of the house. The concrete still has a bit of the aroma if you get down and sniff it.

[Red Badger]

That was one of the things I was worried about after I had 3 operations on my sinus cavity back in 2008. I couldn’t smell anything! For about six months I had no sense of smell at all. The doctor said I had a 50/50 chance of ever getting it back, and at the end of 6 months it began to return, slowly. Things I could smell were different than before the operations. My brain had to re-wire itself to recognize these ‘new’ smells so that I could know what it was. My favorite after shave and colognes were all ‘different’ than I remembered. At first I thought they had gone stale, so I threw them out and bought new. They smelled the same as the ones I threw away. After about a year I had full sense of smell but the smells were totally different than before. Even bacon smelled different, as did other foods. But now, after 7 years, I can smell almost everything like I used to but have had to adjust to the differences.....................