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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:07 AM Original message |
UW scientists create pollution-sucking trees |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. How about trees that suck up rethugs? |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:17 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Now that would make for an Outer Limits episode |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Ewww yes where do we buy them? |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
2. But St Reagan proclaimed trees created pollution! |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:26 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. He claimed that trees kill! |
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comtec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. WTF?!?!!? |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:34 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Genes only synthesize proteins |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 03:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. I'm a Biotech major and I'll just say you are very ignorant about molecular biology. |
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rAVES (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. These super trees will destroy us all!!! |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 09:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. That may not be as funny as you think. |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 03:06 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. At least hybrid poplars don't seed |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 03:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. It's mainly companies like Monsanto that abuse the technology that are the problem. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 10:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I, personally, welcome our new super tree overlords. nt |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 05:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. The Triffids are coming, the Triffids are coming! |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 05:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. I've seen where this could lead... |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
10. so 30 or 100 years from now, when oil is gone and anything that requires very high heat |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
12. "At the far end of town where the grickle-grass grows . . . " |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
13. Uh oh, do they breed like rabbits? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
15. Ethical concerns? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 03:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. "Ethical Concerns" = BS rhetoric about "playing God" brought up by fundies and luddites. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
17. That is a brilliant idea. It reminds me of what they do in the book "50 Degrees Below"... |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
22. They have another advantage as well, |
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