Oilix Created (E. Coli Bacteria That Eats Waste and Poops Petrolium)

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Originally Posted by Insert Credit

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1213805569
Jeremy Parish's personal site Game Spite points out that a company in Silicon Valley called LS9 has genetically modified some strains of E. coli so that they will produce a petroleum-like substance that they think will be interchangeable with oil. They also think it will be carbon-negative, meaning it will produce less carbon than it extracts from the atmosphere when it's made. What does this have to do with games? It was predicted in Metal Gear 2 as Oilix, way back in 1990. It was never mentioned again, but still. To quote mister Parish: "Man, if you thought Kojima fanboys were insufferable in singing praises to his visionary genius before..." Image credit goes to him as well.

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Also, here's a useful article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4133668.ece

stuff like this has been around for awhile, but will probably never get widespread adoption until every last drop of sweet sweet fossilized barney is sucked from the ground

That's so cool.

It really is.

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Originally Posted by cka

stuff like this has been around for awhile, but will probably never get widespread adoption until every last drop of sweet sweet fossilized barney is sucked from the ground

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Agreed.

...and, hey, people are just fine with that, for whatever reason. gg, apathy.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

Agreed.

...and, hey, people are just fine with that, for whatever reason. gg, apathy.

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less to do with apathy, more to do with the world economy going down the shitter

this is why we don't have neat power sources like the oil-spewing food poisoning here or sweet ass solar microwave satellites

I want a robot that makes me a sammich. Does the awful, world economy have a lot to do with that, too?

no that's mostly japan's fault

They should really get to work on that space elevator already.

Mitch Hedberg's infinite wisdom has taught me to only trust space escalators due to their impressive resourcefulness.