Earth Science

I am routinely impressed with the efforts to problem solve in our scientific community. It isn't surprising that these folks are out poking around in the rain-forest, but the kind of stuff they discover, this from the San Jose Mercury News today...

Q U O T E D

"The answer to that is, what if we pushed ourselves back about a hundred and fifty years and you heard a story about a guy finding gold out in California?"

-- Montana State University researcher Gary Strobel explains why he's not revealing the exact location of a tree fungus he discovered in the Patagonian rainforest -- a fungus that turns plant matter into gaseous hydrocarbons that are chemically almost identical to diesel fuel.