From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 18:38:57 MDT
I had a question about this show for the list...
On the program, the nanobes in rocks (from some kilometers underground)
appear to grow, unexpectedly, in an old Petri dish. Later, they begin to eat
the Petri dish. All very interesting.
What disturbed me, however, was the way that they handled the dish. There
they were, displaying it for the camera, just holding it in a pair of
tweezers; it evidently was handled very sloppily, given that one of the
interesting things they showed about it was the way a thumbprint on it was
turning white.
So these guys have dug up something which is for all intents and purposes
alien, from far underground. It turns out that it eats plastic
(polyurethane?), and has a special affinity for a human thumbprint. All
these things are utterly unexpected.
Am I wrong in imagining that you should really keep such a beastie under
some kind of quarantine conditions? In the same show, they interviewed a
finish doctor who thinks that some kind of nanobes cause all kinds of
illnesses in humans, characterised by a very slow onset (because initially
they grow very slowly).
Would you be handling these things with your bare hands??
Emlyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avatar Polymorph [mailto:avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2002 21:16
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: NANOBES PROGRAMME ON TELEVISION
>
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/alienunderworld/
>
> ABC TV (Government-paid tv) has just shown a programme on
> nanobes, made
> famous by the "martian rock" discovery of the 1990s.
>
> Programme claimed that DNA was extracted from nanobe
> communities in rocks.
> Some possibility of contamination was claimed or else the nanobes are
> related to bacteria.
>
> Also Finnish research claimed nanobes are in the human body
> and blood and
> cause kidney stones.
>
> Also claim that nanobes in culture ate the dish afterwards!
>
>
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