Maybe GFAJ-1 should be renamed GFANC? "Get Felicia A Job"--> "Get Felicia A New Career". She was thrown under the bus by NASA. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/scientist-strange-land?page=0%2C4
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Yes – this was a big fish story from some time ago until refuted… or was > it? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFAJ-1 > > here is the researcher at the center of it > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18770964 > > > From: Kevin O'Malley > > Uhh, maybe that's not the best source? > Welcome to the SCP Foundation Wiki! We are happy to have > you > aboard our creative writing project, and hope you enjoy your stay. > All works posted on this wiki, unless otherwise stated, are > works of fiction. This is not a Roleplay site. The Foundation does not > exist. > Jones Beene wrote: > If bacteria can do it- surely modern dinosaurs … err … > chickens can do it as well > http://sandbox.scp-wiki.net/transmuting-bacteria > From: Kevin O'Malley > Such a theory would be straightforward (but > not cheap) to test. We contact Louis Kervran to see if he has any of those > golden sample eggs still in storage, and submit them to the intense > chemical > testing that would be able to sift through whether they've got KH*CO3 or > CaCO3 in them. > If we could contact old Louie … hmm… that > would be an anomaly in itself since he died in 1983. However, there could > be > eggs in storage somewhere. This would be a great test to do. > A large percentage of the eggshell would be > potassium, in the form known as potash, so it should be possible to check > this out. > As I recall – researchers in the US > military > actually replicated this work but there were others who could not > replicate. > Not sure what the military interest was ? > K-rations ? :-) > > > > >
