New Bacterium Lives On Caffeine 121
Kozar_The_Malignant writes "A newly-described species of bacterium, Pseudomonas putida has been found to live on pure caffeine. The little jaspers metabolize caffeine into carbon dioxide and ammonia. They were found living in a flower bed on the University of Iowa campus, not in the drain of an espresso machine as one might expect. The paper presenting the research will be presented at the American Society for Microbiology meeting in New Orleans this month where caffeine metabolism will have to contend with the traditional ethanol metabolism."
We must be related (Score:5, Funny)
But when I ingest caffeine it just makes my pee smell like coffee.
Hard to Find at First (Score:5, Funny)
There's also a slime mold that lives on caffeine. (Score:4, Funny)
It's called the Sales Department.
But... (Score:5, Funny)
...are they good programmers?
Re:Great (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)
No, but they don't need to be. This is the million-monkeys problem: I'm sure a few trillion bacteria would eventually crank out better code than the mouth-breathing jackass two cubicles over.
Get Back! (Score:4, Funny)
Stay away from my precious!
better "department" (Score:5, Funny)
from the spit-it-out-you-wee-bastard department
Re:Great (Score:4, Funny)
I have a hard enough time even bothering to use my bean grinder!
Is it called... (Score:3, Funny)