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Martian colony or Boston area's sewage-treatment plant?

Digester tanks at Deer Island

Adam Balsam gives us a closeup nighttime view of the "digester" tanks at Deer Island, where zillions of bacteria contentedly spend their days munching human sewage.

Copyright Adam Balsam. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

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Now where did I put That Q-36 space modulator?

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That your morning glass of O.J. was grown in fertilizer derived from the "waste" in the these tanks.

Mention that next time you see someone who's mid-gulp.

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I mean, I know you can buy Deer Island fertilizer, but they ship it to Florida?

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He had a badge and everything...

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NEFCO Biosolids handles most of the (ahem) $#@! while Bay State fertilizer gets just some of the $#@!.

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I didn't think it was OK to put meat-eater derived fertilizer on food growing plantings?

Good thing I don't have a yard to worry about this stuff.

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the diff really

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They helped recreate a NASA or CIA facility, IIRC. Not a bad lil movie.

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Good bacteria are our friends.

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to a Bond villain’s HQ.

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