Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Tuesday, May 25, 2010

An interesting problem

How do they investigate and sample without contaminating it, or possibly bringing up some microbe to which we have no defenses...

Miles Below Antarctic Ice, a Freshwater Lake May Harbor Ancient Life

Science will come through this though, as soon as some corporate body decides there's a fortune to be made selling water from the lake and the American authorities, who worship Capitalism before anything else, grants that corporation not only permission, but a tax holiday, to exploit the resource...


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