[extropy-chat] Microbes Produce Miniature Electrical Wires

[Terry W. Colvin]

Stuart,

The following excerpt from another mailing list brings up the hoary idea
that some microbiologists are meeting untimely and conspiratorial deaths.
Any comments?

Terry

     So far 88 microbiologists seem to have died under more-or-less
suspicious circumstances in the United States, the United Kingdom and
Western Europe (combined).

     But even such a relatively small population center as Greater
Cincinnati, Ohio, has four or five universities and a consortium of
hospitals, and thus employs THOUSANDS of microbiologists. Moreover,
the universities and in-house hospital educational programs graduate
hundreds more new microbiologists every year. And, again,  that's
merely one relatively minor population area.

     So if there is indeed a plot or conspiracy to wipe out
microbiologists, or even to seriously thin their ranks, it strikes me
as a remarkably ineffective one.


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The Avantguardian wrote:

>I am delighted but not surprised. Nature is genius and
>we are Her students. As a microbiologist I firmly
>believe that microbes will save or damn the world
>depending on what we do with them.
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>--- Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Extropes,
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>>I thought this interesting.  
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>http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/archive/2005/062205microbes.html
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>>"Such long, thin conductive structures are
>>unprecedented in biology," said Lovley. "This
>>completely changes our concept of how microorganisms
>>can handle electrons, and it also seems likely that
>>microbial nanowires could be useful materials for
>>the
>>development of extremely small electronic devices."
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>>The findings ... are "promising and exciting,"
>>although ... the information must be independently
>>confirmed and extended by other microbiologists and
>>biophysicists. 
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>>Humanity is so very proud of its technological
>>sophistication.  Stainless steel tech gear,
>>micro/nano
>>computer gizmos, flashing LEDs, crisp white lab
>>coats.
>> But occasionally, when a fragment of the vast
>>unknown
>>is revealed, I think of Dr. F's Igor, the
>>overdressed
>>neanderthal.  Dumber than a sackfull of hammers.
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>>Present company excepted, of course.  ;-)
>>
>>Best, Jeff Davis
>>
>>   "Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
>>                           Ray Charles
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>The Avantguardian 
>is 
>Stuart LaForge
>alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
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