Can Oil-Eating Bacteria Help Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill? 139
sciencehabit writes "At this point it's unclear how much of an environmental threat oil spreading from the BP spill will cause, but the federal government is mobilizing thousands of workers to prepare for the worst. They have a potential ally: microbes that have evolved an ability to break down oil that seeps from the ocean bottom. It gets devoured by a variety of bacteria, which eat it by chemically transforming its compounds into useful cellular constituents."
Wired has some pictures of the spill from orbiting satellites.
Poop (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why so serious? (Score:4, Funny)
Spill, baby, spill (Score:1, Funny)
You go!
Re:Of course (Score:3, Funny)
We, as a species, have a record of doing the difficult, if not impossible, and often by accident. I, too, would like some of the AC's popcorn.
Dawn Dishwashing Liguid (Score:3, Funny)
Re:this might be a dumb question but... (Score:3, Funny)
Wait wait wait... what kind of techniques do they use in the lab?
A little Richard Simmons, some psychoactive mushrooms, and a shot of mGH should hasten the pace a little, don't you think?