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User ID: 80710265 United States 09/13/2021 03:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The first explanation, he says, was that the sensors were wrong. But the cause turned out to be far stranger: bacteria that join cells end to end to build electrical cables able to carry current up to 5 centimeters through mud. The adaptation, never seen before in a microbe, allows these so-called cable bacteria to overcome a major challenge facing many organisms that live in mud: a lack of oxygen. Its absence would normally keep bacteria from metabolizing compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide, as food. But the cables, by linking the microbes to sediments richer in oxygen, allow them to carry out the reaction long distance. When Nielsen first described the discovery in 2009, colleagues were skeptical. Filip Meysman, a chemical engineer at the University of Antwerp, recalls thinking, "This is complete nonsense." Yes, researchers knew bacteria could conduct electricity, but not over the distances Nielsen was suggesting. It was "as if our own metabolic processes would have an effect 18 kilometers away," says microbiologist Andreas Teske of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. [link to www.science.org (secure)] Last Edited by Digital mix guy Spock on 09/13/2021 03:38 PM Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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User ID: 79260005 United States 09/13/2021 10:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: Cumbre Vieja volcano post eruption phase! Time to say goodbye for volcano-thank you for all support :) https://twitter.com/_/status/1437110819398033411 [link to twitter.com (secure)] [link to www.ign.es] Cumbre Vieja volcano or Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge is area on La Palma Island (Canary Islands) .Potential eq swarm and eruption could trigger landslide causing widespread tsunami on Atlantic Ocean! Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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User ID: 79260005 United States 09/13/2021 10:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: While America was distracted, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta revised its GDP forecast DOWNWARD by 41%. Something's VERY wrong here. Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80798572 Canada 09/14/2021 01:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For Lars Peter Nielsen, it all began with the mysterious disappearance of hydrogen sulfide. The microbiologist had collected black, stinky mud from the bottom of Aarhus Harbor in Denmark, dropped it into big glass beakers, and inserted custom microsensors that detected changes in the mud's chemistry. At the start of the experiment, the muck was saturated with hydrogen sulfide—the source of the sediment's stink and color. But 30 days later, one band of mud had become paler, suggesting some hydrogen sulphide had gone missing. Eventually, the microsensors indicated that all of the compound had disappeared. Given what scientists knew about the biogeochemistry of mud, recalls Nielsen, who works at Aarhus University, "This didn't make sense at all." Quoting: Digital mix guy The first explanation, he says, was that the sensors were wrong. But the cause turned out to be far stranger: bacteria that join cells end to end to build electrical cables able to carry current up to 5 centimeters through mud. The adaptation, never seen before in a microbe, allows these so-called cable bacteria to overcome a major challenge facing many organisms that live in mud: a lack of oxygen. Its absence would normally keep bacteria from metabolizing compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide, as food. But the cables, by linking the microbes to sediments richer in oxygen, allow them to carry out the reaction long distance. When Nielsen first described the discovery in 2009, colleagues were skeptical. Filip Meysman, a chemical engineer at the University of Antwerp, recalls thinking, "This is complete nonsense." Yes, researchers knew bacteria could conduct electricity, but not over the distances Nielsen was suggesting. It was "as if our own metabolic processes would have an effect 18 kilometers away," says microbiologist Andreas Teske of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. [link to www.science.org (secure)] interesting |
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User ID: 80710265 United States 09/14/2021 07:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] https://twitter.com/_/status/1437110819398033411 [link to twitter.com (secure)] [link to www.ign.es] Cumbre Vieja volcano or Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge is area on La Palma Island (Canary Islands) .Potential eq swarm and eruption could trigger landslide causing widespread tsunami on Atlantic Ocean! Last Edited by Digital mix guy Spock on 09/14/2021 07:31 PM Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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User ID: 80710265 United States 09/14/2021 07:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: ALERT: Chinese warships, including one of China's most-advanced destroyers spotted sailing in the waters off Alaska, near US exclusive economic US Coast Guard spotted Chinese warships, including one of its most advanced destroyers, off Alaska and near US exclusive economic zone late last month, the U.S. military revealed in photos. Quoting: any thing According to photos posted on a Pentagon information service, four Chinese warships, including one of its most advanced destroyers, were spotted sailing in the waters off Alaska late last month as the Chinese navy steadily expands its range. Source: [link to insiderpaper.com (secure)] Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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User ID: 80710265 United States 09/14/2021 07:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: Hospital headlines just hit my inbox...THEY ARE FEELING THE HEAT (Page 3) Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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User ID: 80710265 United States 09/14/2021 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I haven't been on this forum in almost 9 years....... Quoting: Raven's Moon AND THIS THRED IS STILL HERE!!!!!! this thread is here to track anomalous phenomena in the natural world. and ALSO to track any real or potential technology which might seem likely to have disruptive effect on the natural world, such as: black goo, sentient AI, self-replicating nanobots, oil-eating bacteria, autonomous oceanic robot probes, etc etc the thread began with a focus on an alleged naval incident in the Gulf Of Mexico. however, the thread's focus evolved steadily. when the Deep Horizon incident caused a major oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico, the thread's focus shifted to the natural world, and has further evolved as described above. this gradual change in the thread's focus was partly due to the use of new experimental oil-eating bacteria, to consume the oil spilled in the incident at Deepwater Horizon. thanks for your helpful comment!! ^^core topics of this thread. Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80839986 United States 09/14/2021 08:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 11 years later... I'm sure I could fish out 3 or 4 replies from my old username in here. This is bigger than da no-booty thread ever got. We need more French submarines. Funny thing about those subs while I'm thinking about it...Their tomato plants are ALWAYS inside. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77547432 Canada 09/14/2021 08:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 11 years later... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80839986 I'm sure I could fish out 3 or 4 replies from my old username in here. This is bigger than da no-booty thread ever got. We need more French submarines. Funny thing about those subs while I'm thinking about it...Their tomato plants are ALWAYS inside. It's not a LARP thread like the no-booty thread. So, it stands the test of time. Ages like whiskey in an oaken barrel instead of an egg salad sammich in a ziplock forgotten in the back of the fridge. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77547432 Canada 09/17/2021 07:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Something just went bezerk Quoting: Option 8 80883624 The aussies just sank a French submarine Sorry Couldn’t resist Lol..threads merge Thread: Cumbre Vieja volcano post eruption phase! Time to say goodbye for volcano-thank you for all support :) (Page 116) |
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User ID: 80879914 Germany 09/17/2021 05:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Something just went bezerk Quoting: Option 8 80883624 The aussies just sank a French submarine Sorry Couldn’t resist Thread: U.S. Just sunk French Submarine ambitions, goes BEZERK! Recalls Ambassadors "Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc" - William Blake, America a Prophecy (...also misquoted in Blade Runner by Roy Batty) "Tempus est optimus iudex" - "Time is the best judge" "The very word "'secrecy'" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." - John F. Kennedy, New York City, April 27, 1961 |
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User ID: 79260005 United States 09/18/2021 10:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Something just went bezerk Quoting: Option 8 80883624 The aussies just sank a French submarine Sorry Couldn’t resist Thread: U.S. Just sunk French Submarine ambitions, goes BEZERK! Recalls Ambassadors fantastic!!!! GLP, our moment has arrived!!! Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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User ID: 79260005 United States 09/18/2021 10:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | how cool is this? https://twitter.com/_/status/1439242593645252619 https://twitter.com/_/status/1438570133589532673 Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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User ID: 79260005 United States 09/18/2021 10:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | how cool is this? https://twitter.com/_/status/1439242593645252619 https://twitter.com/_/status/1438570133589532673 Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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User ID: 79260005 United States 09/18/2021 10:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The United States and Australia went to extraordinary lengths to keep Paris in the dark as they secretly negotiated a plan to build nuclear submarines, scuttling France’s largest defense contract and so enraging President Emmanuel Macron that on Friday he ordered the withdrawal of France’s ambassadors to both nations. Mr. Macron’s decision was a stunning and unexpected escalation of the breach between Washington and Paris, on a day that the two countries had planned to celebrate an alliance that goes back to the defeat of Britain in the Revolutionary War. Yet it was driven by France’s realization that two of its closest allies have been negotiating secretly for months. According to interviews with American and British officials, the Australians approached the new administration soon after President Biden’s inauguration and said they had concluded that they had to get out of a $60 billion agreement with France to supply them with a dozen attack submarines. The conventionally powered French subs, the Australians feared, would be obsolete by the time they were delivered. They expressed interest in seeking a fleet of quieter nuclear-powered submarines based on American and British designs that could patrol areas of the South China Sea with less risk of detection. But it was unclear how they would terminate the agreement with France, which was already over budget and running behind schedule. “They told us they would take care of dealing with the French,” one senior U.S. official said. The Australians knew they had a receptive audience. Mr. Biden, who has made pushing back hard on China’s territorial ambitions a central tenet of his national security policy, told aides those French-made submarines would not do. They did not have the ability to range the Pacific and show up unexpectedly off Chinese shores — adding an element of military advantage for the West. The Australians, by all accounts, never made clear to the French that they were preparing to cancel the deal, which had taken years to negotiate. And in meeting after meeting with their French counterparts — some including Mr. Biden and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken — the Americans did not give France a heads-up about their plans to step in with their own designs, the officials said, asking for anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy. It was a classic case of diplomatic avoidance. [link to www.nytimes.com (secure)] Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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