Aug 21, 2007 3:34 AM

Fungal Biodiesel

*INDIAN fungal biodiesel!

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/fungi-make-biod.html

*And in other 21st-century news, Indian crowd-dazzling handheld laser weapons!

http://www.photonics.com/content/news/2007/August/17/88720.aspx

*So there's this riotous crowd of mujihadeen pursuing a female novelist down at the fungal biodiesel plant, when the lathi-stick-wielding riot squad suddenly fires off the dazzling lasers... man, science fiction can *write itself* nowadays! It's kind of amazing!

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