Re: Proposal: How to deal with Spaceman

From: sal (believer_at_nospam.org)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:54:50 -0400

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:28:46 +0000, Androcles wrote:

>
> "sal" <believer@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.07.14.18.53.59.486436@nospam.org...
> | On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:17:21 -0700, Myxococcus xanthus wrote:
> |
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> |
> | > Myxococcus xanthus
> |
> | Interesting bacterium.
>
> Interesting comment. By that I mean the entire post, not just the
> reference to the encephalicity of bacteria, although it did prompt me into
> researching a little biology.
> http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/microbes/myxococc.htm "The myxobacteria are
> an interesting family of gliding bacteria that produce fruiting bodies in
> starvation conditions. They are common in animal dung..."

I missed the bit about animal dung when I googled it.

Seriously, though, it _is_ an interesting bacillus, with really remarkable
behavior for such beasties. As far as I could tell, it's also completely
benign.

And as to being common in animal dung -- well, really, at least it doesn't
kill the animal, chop it into bits, and then eat part of the corpse, the
way most humans do... 

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