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Category: Carnivals • Organisms • Science
Posted on: February 23, 2006 11:49 AM, by PZ Myers
The inaugural edition of the Carnival of the Animalcules is up. It's almost lunchtime, though, and you might want to wait until after you've eaten…especially before reading the one about fast-food toilet water.
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Yuck!!!!!!
Posted by: Torris | February 23, 2006 1:49 PM
Hmm, so I guess my dogs have had the right idea all this time.
Posted by: MJ Memphis | February 23, 2006 2:30 PM
"Hmm, so I guess my dogs have had the right idea all this time."
Remember to drink the recommended amount to stay hydrated--eight bowls a day!
Posted by: RavenT | February 23, 2006 2:41 PM
Don't the types of bacteria involved matter too?
Posted by: Caledonian | February 23, 2006 3:22 PM
Don't the types of bacteria involved matter too?
Are you implying that we should discriminate based on innate differences?
Posted by: Paul W. | February 23, 2006 3:29 PM
Somehow, though, I doubt that the student in question has given up drinking (iced) soft drinks at fast-food restuarants and started making ice from toilet water at home.
Posted by: MJ Memphis | February 23, 2006 3:47 PM
Bacteria rule the Earth. Some estimates put the total biomass of bacteria as greater than the biomass of everything else. So, yeah, you're going to find bacteria everywhere. But most of it isn't interested in human beings, even when we're dead, let alone walking around with active immune systems.
So, there's bacteria in fast food ice. The question is, how much of it is pathogenic?
Posted by: NelC | February 23, 2006 3:58 PM
I'd like to see that study repeated for doorknob handles and telephone recievers.
Posted by: Frumious B, | February 23, 2006 6:08 PM
I'd like to see that study repeated for doorknob handles and telephone recievers.
They'd be immaculate, I'd presume - doorknob handle and telephone receiver cleaning are the oldest professions, after all.
Posted by: The Rev. Schmitt. | February 24, 2006 8:14 PM