--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote:
> >Apparently we've inadvertantly helped develop a > >bacterium that needs our waste to live: > > > >http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030703/ap_on_sc/toxic_feeder_5 > >"...Vinyl chloride is one of the most common and > >hazardous industrial chemicals. It can linger in the > >soil for hundreds of years and is present at about a > >third of the toxic Superfund sites listed by the > >Environmental Protection Agency. It > usually accumulates as a deteriorated form of more > >complex compounds found in dry cleaning fluid and > >metal cleansers. <snip> > >"..."These organisms can only grow when the > >contaminants are present," he said. "When the > material > >is gone, their numbers decline because they don't > have any food. So really it's a perfect system." > > > Didn't I read that novel 30 years ago? > <<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.seymour1/ukbookguide/Series/Doomwatch/mutant59.html>> <grin> Yep, I read that one too! ...Also about 30 years ago... I wonder if the Good Doctor read it also, to the Gubru's chagrin? ;) Well, Saliva IS An Effective Emergency Eyeglasses Cleaner Maru ;) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
