Rob wrote... > Genetically modified plants may be the green solution for > cleaning up contaminated soils.
This reminds me of one of my favorite stories (the title escapes me at the moment - it's been a while since I read it) where a company created an enzyme or bacteria or something that would only eat waste products from paper mills and logging operations. Of course, the bacteria either mutated or an error was made and it started to eat all plant matter. They tried to contain it by burning, but were not successful. The company that created it gathered a group of people, including an investigative reporter that was on to them, and sent them all to the moonbase as humanities last safe haven. The Earth was dying, and the supplies on the moonbase were dwindling so they choose two adults (the reporter and the project leader that he fell in love with) and put them in two experimental cryogenic chambers, along with hundreds of human zygotes. The cool thing about this story, is that it is told from the perspective of an alien exploratory team that finds Earth hundreds of thousands of years later and then stumbles across the moonbase and eventually the people and zygotes that are frozen. The Earth's demise, is eventually revealed through the aliens efforts to translate the historical records that were left in the cryo lab. The book is at least 20+ years old, but if anyone is interested, I will look for the title. Last I looked, it could still be found on abebooks.com for a few dollars. Gary PS - No spoilers here, the back cover of the book reveals pretty much the same thing that I wrote above :-) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
