ok, so I wonder who the first person is gonna be to win the race to make a bomb out of them...
Hydrazine is pretty snazzy stuff

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Hmm, if anything I'm kinda glad they end up consuming the hydrazine again. Otherwise there'd be pretty obvious safety concerns.

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I'd just like to point out that these bacteria use rocket fuel in the same way human use fat. That is all.

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Well yes, I was aware of that. The blurb made me think at first that these bacteria excreted hydrazine. Then I read, as you said, they just sorta use it as a high density energy storage.

Which is a relief, because if they excreted hydrazine...well I guess we would have learned of their existence much longer ago, on account of the explosions and all.

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Heh, maybe we can use them to fuel Niven's tnuctip stage trees.

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So will there be an intestinal variety with which jet packs will be obsolete, assuming a good safe nozzle design can be found?

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I'm sure there will be videos ciculating the net soon of frat boys who drink some of that bacteria to light their super farts on fire.

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I'm fairly certain hydrazine has a fairly high vaporization temperature, certainly higher than the inside of a fratboy's ass.

Explosive toilets would probably be the favorite game, but its not like its already not the hit of the party!

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