This bacteria-eating shipwrecks titanic ....

On 15 April 1912, ship RMS Titanic sank. A most famous shipwreck of all time. The story of the ship that the carcass is now lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean continued to fascinate and inspire many people.


Including Jack and Rose's romance in the Hollywood movie titled 'Titanic.

However, who would have thought the Titanic was the carcass of existence threatened, thanks to the bacteria.

Researchers at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has been researching bacteria that undermine the Titanic. It is rust-eating bacteria.

Using DNA technology, scientists Dahousie, Henrietta Mann and Bhavleen Kaur, as well as researchers from the University of Sevilla, Spain were able to identify new bacterial species collected from rusticles - rust formations that resemble stalactites from the carcass of the Titanic.

Oxidized iron-eating bacteria that has even given a name, Halomonas titanicae.

The discovery of these bacteria have an important meaning in the effort to preserve these wrecks.

"In 1995, I predict the Titanic would have survived another 30 years," said Henrietta Mann, like a loaded site LiveScience.

"But this is far worse. He's probably shorter, 15 or 20 years."

Wreck of Titanic currently covered rusticle formed at least by 27 bacteria, including Halomonas titanicae.

Rusticles have pores that allow water to pass through. Through a somewhat complicated process, it will eventually disintegrate into powder. "This is a natural process, iron recycling back to nature," Mann said.

After the sinking, Titanic decades of mystery. Nobody knows where exactly the location mahsyur ship sank.

Wreck of Titanic expedition was eventually found by a joint French-United States in 1985. Wreck of Titanic found to be at least 3.8 kilometers below sea level in 530 kilometers southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.

In the 25 years since its discovery, the Titanic carcass quickly deteriorated.

Although later failed to save the Titanic, the discovery of this bacterium have very important meaning. One of them, accelerate weathering of old ships and oil rigs old.

On the other hand, the discovery of these bacteria will also help scientists develop a paint or protective coating to keep the ship from the rust-eating bacteria.

Research findings will be published December 8, 2010 in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

source:VIVAnews

Melting polar ice ..... many natural disasters around the world ...

Apparently the number of disasters in the earth lately one of them caused by the melting of polar ice caps. Also included earthquake and volcanic eruption. More information about the impact of melting polar ice .... see the following article:

Many earthquake because the Polar Ice Melting Disturb continental plate

Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, was hit by the tsunami. Merapi erupted. Increasingly active seismic Lempek allegedly due to melting of polar ice caps.

This was conveyed by Professor Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University of England. According to him, this seismic activity is tantamount to the incident in the last ice age.

"The ice continues to melt changing the pressure on the Earth's plates," Oppenheimer said in a conversation with detikxom at Hotel Salak, Bogor.

In the ice age, all of Canada is a mountain of ice as thick as 5 km. When the ice was broken, the pressure on the Earth's plates disrupted.

"There is pressure on the plates of the earth, besides the water rose," he said.

Therefore, ice melting because of global warming was worrying for geologists. If the plates of the earth is disturbed, its impact is most subject to fracture as the island near the Mentawai islands affected by the tsunami.

"Plate of the earth more and more active, so many earthquakes and Indonesia was closest to the fault," he concluded.

Picture the beauty of the universe

Venus and Mercury are visible on the west

Nebula Eskimo

Andromeda Galaxy

Carina star which is located not far from the Milky Way

Epsilon Aurigae is a star will fade behind a black cloud every 27 years

Epsilon Eridani planetary system

Galaxy M81 which looks beautiful with shades of pink it ..

This picture is still a baby star. See, beautiful mist covered with colorful nebula ..

Jupiter and Sun

This comet will look plain if we observe from earth, so consider carefully how he often looked at a planet's orbit by taking into account..

This is the Black Hole prey on anything around him ..

This is called the asteroid ..

The view when we observe the galaxy from the side of the outer galaxy

The other side of a comet. Beautiful but horrible ..

Formation star Eta Carinae with nebula