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To: combjelly who wrote (365044)1/2/2008 12:19:39 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574092
 
"Now, as the percentage of the plastics increase in the environment, sooner or later something will develop to utilize them."

That would be the ideal act for an ecoterrorist. Bioengineer a bacteria that eats plastics!



To: combjelly who wrote (365044)1/2/2008 1:00:41 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574092
 
You know, I've thought about our waste problems, including nuclear waste. If space launches become more affordable, it might be the best thing to just launch our longterm persistent waste into the sun or to Venus, where it will just burn up. I wonder if anyone is thinking about things like that? If we could launch nuclear waste to the sun, then it nuclear power would make the most sense of all for the next 30+ years.



To: combjelly who wrote (365044)1/2/2008 6:32:12 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574092
 
And they aren't normally occurring ones, so the present bacterial populations haven't evolved to use them.

Won't it take centuries for bacteria to evolve to that point?