Among today's decidely odd news reports: In Silicon Valley on America's west coast, many of the newer entrants into today's business "rat race" are shying away from chips, software and the like to embrace a new technology that may - or may not - be a step forward in the world's "greening revolution." In a technology that depends on genetic engineering to find its trillions of employees (microbes, for the most part), such business aspirants are coddling engineered bacteria that can subsist on waste products and, in the process, deliver crude oil as a byproduct. Couldn't they have tweaked these microbes just a little bit more and developed some that excrete 87 octane gasoline? And what happened to the long-held belief that it takes millions of years and the deaths of untold numbers of carbon-based lifeforms, under immense pressure and in broiling heat, to produce oil and coal? Then, again, crude oil and its resultant petroleum and diesel distillates could become a thing of the past, as reported at Frank Warren's Blog in New Fuel Cell System 'Generates Electricity with only Water, Air', with a photo of an automobile adapted to the technology; and there are more strange vehicles, including a flying saucer video demonstration, at Chinese Company Develops'UFO': Report. Elsewhere among today's oddities, we find Rick Phillips breaking out The Heavy Stuff during the "Silly Season" of impending political change to lament the fact that the segment of our society probably least likely to understand our desire to find new and better ways to connect with our "minds" are the ones who govern how we do it, as decried in Consciousness, Chemicals and Pathetic Politicians, while the environmental impact of man's voracious seafood appetite, along with that always handy culprit global warming, takes the hit for the proliferation of one of the least understood organisms in our oceans, as reported in Jellyfish Outbreaks a Sign of Nature Out of Sync.
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