I replied to this over 2 hours ago; the post hasn't shown, so I'm trying again (although I don't remember exactly what I said then... :P ).
--- 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 (news - web sites). > It usually accumulates as a deteriorated form of more > >complex compounds found in dry cleaning fluid and > >metal cleansers.... > >"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> I also read that one...about 3 decades ago. Funny how 'monsters' can be both huge flesh-eating creatures, and - microscopic flesh-destroying ones. Life Under The Cover-slip 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
