Comments on: News flash: Something Can Live in Diet Coke http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/09/16/news-flash-something-can-live-in-diet-coke/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:25:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Stark http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/09/16/news-flash-something-can-live-in-diet-coke/#comment-1412 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:03:40 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/09/16/news-flash-something-can-live-in-diet-coke/#comment-1412 Rich, I am becoming concerned that you may actually be my doppleganger. We frequent the same net neighborhoods and now it appears that we may have much the same diet. That being said, I not only drink too much Diet Coke but I use it as a cleaning agent for the few chrome parts on my motorcycle - it does a suprisingly good job of removing road grime. I've also experimented with seeing if anything would spontaneously grow in DC but I guess I just didn't have the kind of patience that Dan does - I threw out my sample after just a month or so with nothing growing yet. I do mean nothing as well - I examined it under microscope and it was devoid of all signs of life. Rich, I am becoming concerned that you may actually be my doppleganger. We frequent the same net neighborhoods and now it appears that we may have much the same diet.

That being said, I not only drink too much Diet Coke but I use it as a cleaning agent for the few chrome parts on my motorcycle - it does a suprisingly good job of removing road grime. I’ve also experimented with seeing if anything would spontaneously grow in DC but I guess I just didn’t have the kind of patience that Dan does - I threw out my sample after just a month or so with nothing growing yet. I do mean nothing as well - I examined it under microscope and it was devoid of all signs of life.

]]> by: RichVR http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/09/16/news-flash-something-can-live-in-diet-coke/#comment-1408 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:25:45 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/09/16/news-flash-something-can-live-in-diet-coke/#comment-1408 I grow on Diet Coke. And that seems to defeat the whole diet thing. But it could be the beer and pizza as well. Ah well, more experimentation is called for. I grow on Diet Coke. And that seems to defeat the whole diet thing. But it could be the beer and pizza as well. Ah well, more experimentation is called for.

]]> by: Mohonri http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/09/16/news-flash-something-can-live-in-diet-coke/#comment-1407 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:06:32 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/09/16/news-flash-something-can-live-in-diet-coke/#comment-1407 I wonder if that stuff growing is photosynthetic. If it is, then you wouldn't necessarily need anything with nutritional value in order for the mold or fungus or algae or whatever it is to grow. It gets its energy from outside the closed system, and uses that energy to....do something with the remnants of the diet coke. I wonder if that stuff growing is photosynthetic. If it is, then you wouldn’t necessarily need anything with nutritional value in order for the mold or fungus or algae or whatever it is to grow. It gets its energy from outside the closed system, and uses that energy to….do something with the remnants of the diet coke.

]]> by: reyalp http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/09/16/news-flash-something-can-live-in-diet-coke/#comment-1406 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:15:30 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/09/16/news-flash-something-can-live-in-diet-coke/#comment-1406 Be careful, anything that grows on Diet Coke strikes me as likely to be a potent bio-weapon ;) Be careful, anything that grows on Diet Coke strikes me as likely to be a potent bio-weapon ;)

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