From: Barbara Lamar (barbaralamar@sanmarcos.net)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 00:01:43 MDT
Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> 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.
There was a radio show about nanobes that aired here a few months ago.
http://www.earthsky.com/2002/es020122.html
According to this show, the existence of living things as small as nanobes
is controversial. This radio show didn't mention nanobes eating lab
equipment. Could be the researchers consider the destruction of lab
equipment by nanobes more like the destruction of equipment by acid than
eating in the sense of metabolizing. Thus, you wouldn't have to worry about
such things as airborne nanobe infection.
Barbara Lamar
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