Comments on: Petri dish conclusions. Well that’s just disgusting.

By: masterlock

masterlock — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:15:27 +0000

I wouldn’t worry so much about it, we are surrounded by bacteria and even our skin is crawling with them. Most of them are harmless and we live in peaceful harmony.

By: Manda

Manda — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:02:55 +0000

I just read this and then used three bottles of Windex cleaning everything in our house and then set our block on fire because that is the only way to Cleanliness and Redemption.

Here is a follow-up experiment you should under no circumstances ever think of doing: if you put Neosporin on the colonized petri dishes it will create a soothing circular zone of eradication and cleanliness, and then after 3-4 days some new bacteria will grow within this Safe Zone, and then you will have made NEOSPORIN-RESISTANT BACTERIA, and you will feel like an imnipotent dety, but I will have to come down there and end you.

By: David Sanchez

David Sanchez — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:13:47 +0000

10% of our body weight comes from microorganism that we can’t live with out it.

By: roge

roge — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:45:47 +0000

so, have you been compulsively microwaving and dishwashing your sponge?

By: Ivan P

Ivan P — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:32:59 +0000

Wowswers… I knew kitchen sponges were dirty, but that is impressive. If you still have any extras, maybe we could see the mic half of a phone, (heard those were pretty nasty, and proximity to our lips would add to the drama…) and maybe also form the nutgraf keyboard, (and see how dirty the machine that creates these pages are)…

By: Judy S

Judy S — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:29:42 +0000

I wonder how a natural sea sponge would measure up to a kitchen sponge. I read somewhere that natural enzymes in sea sponges prevent or maybe just inhibit the growth of bacteria.