Are you having problems with Burping Sheep?

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040621/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_germany_burping&e=2

BERLIN (Reuters) - Scientists have developed a serum to reduce methane gas in burping sheep, cows and other ruminants to combat global warming, a German magazine has reported.

The Hanover-based monthly Technology Review will report in its July issue that Andre-Denis Wright, a molecular biologist at Australia's CSIRO Institute, has found a vaccine that reduced the methane emissions of sheep by eight percent.

Sheep produce 20 grams of methane each day, or seven kg per year, the magazine with 80,000 subscribers reported. Cows produce about 114 kg per year of methane (CH4) -- a gas 21 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for driving up temperatures.

[King Of Paperboys]

1. Nope

My problem is with sheep that won't stand still for a minute.

[Donkeyboy75]

2. You're quickly forging your way into my list of top ten posters.

Hurrah! Well done!

[jumptheshadow]

3. I just told two colleagues about this

One is American, the other is French. The American laughed. The Frenchwoman yelped, "But it is a BIG problem, it's a BIG problem."

As my French colleague observed, it's all a matter of perspective.

[trof]

4. Once you get the sheep over your shoulder,

the rest is pretty easy.
;-)

[MallRat]

5. Methane is released when they BURP?

Odd. I thought the problem was with gas, er... EMANATING from the other end.

-MR

[underpants]

6. Gas is gas

That's what they say.