Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic 221
gambit3 writes "A newly discovered microbe dubbed Halomonas titanicae is chewing its way through the wreck of the Titanic and leaving little behind except a fine dust, researchers report in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 'In 1995, I was predicting that Titanic had another 30 years,' said Henrietta Mann, a civil engineering adjunct professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 'It's deteriorating much faster than that now.'"
It's the Only Way to Be Sure (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, (Score:1, Funny)
Afterlife refuge (Score:5, Funny)
Ever since I saw the movie as a teenager, I have looked forward to the day that I die and become a ghost, so that I may travel down to the wreckage and meditate amid the sadness of loss and the elegance of a finer age. Reading this I am completely lost. I have always believed that no ability to move through time comes with the afterlife, as otherwise ghosts from the future would have already influenced the present (however rare ghost-to-man interactions may be).
Tell me why can this microbe exist to destroy?
Re:It's the Only Way to Be Sure (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No more sailing... (Score:5, Funny)
Especially since it didn't have any sails to begin with.
Rust Monsters? O noes! (Score:4, Funny)
All you fighters better turn in your plate mail, shields, and swords, and switch classes.
Might I suggest thief or magic-user?
Re:No more sailing... (Score:5, Funny)
Why would the Prime Minister of Britain be (re)releasing a movie?
Re:Propellers (Score:4, Funny)
For once.. (Score:4, Funny)
I guess Iron man is not the answer to the problem.