Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 10, 2015

Looks like Miley to me.

How long does it take for styrofoam to decompose?

Wait – I thought it needed One Million, Three Hundred and Sixteen years… I guess I was wrong, though..

Cyrus the virus? I hear her brain isn’t attached to anything!

There is a Styrofoam eating bacteria. As far as I can tell it isn’t being used even though it was discovered some years ago.--

“There have been two successful bacteria-based solutions for styrene decomposition developed at the Department of Biotechnology in Tottori, Japan, as well as the Department of Microbiology at the National University of Ireland. Both rely upon a patented soil organism called Pseudomonas putida.

Polystyrene is the bad boy of the petrochemical industry. In addition to the highly toxic chemicals required to manufacture polysterene products (namely benzene), expanded polystyrene foam requires ozone-depleting HCFC’s (CFC’s used to be used to make Styrofoam, but they have been banned for the most part). Then once disposed, it basically NEVER decomposes. It does however break apart into smaller granules, but because of its light weight, those particles quickly become both airborne and waterborne, where they wreck havoc on the ocean food chain.

Read more: http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/high-school-girl-discovers-styrofoam-eating-bacterium#ixzz3cfVShTCE"

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Yeah, that is not a muscle.

Who has been around to verify that it takes one million years for glass to decompose?

Also, interestingly, glass is technically classified as a liquid, not a solid…

Then why is it that when I try to listen to a seashell in a quiet room I can’t hear anything?

Eventually, the Plastics will be Buried under tons of rock & debris and carried deep into the Earth by the shifting of sands, rocks and vulcanism.Once these particles reach sufficient depth, the Heat generated by the extreme pressure will break the molecules back down into less complex hydrocarbons which will, over thousands of year, begin to work their way back toward the surface where they will pool in the pockets and voids in the rock and combine with various plant and animal fats working their way Down from the surface and will refill our depleted petroleum deposits. .But, this will take a few Million Years, so don’t buy any Oil Company stock just yet..