8230 - variation on a meme, I pollified it.

[scottobear]

[Poll #686339]

feel free to post a guess in comments, if you can't do the poll above.

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Science!

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Some people like to talk to their plants. Now, students at Singapore Polytechnic say they have created a plant that can communicate with people -- by glowing when it needs water.

The students said on Tuesday that they have genetically modified a plant using a green fluorescent marker gene from jellyfish, so that it "lights up" when it is stressed as a result of dehydration.

The light is hard to detect with the naked eye but can be seen using an optical sensor developed in collaboration with students at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

The development of such plants could help farmers to develop more efficient irrigation of crops

Comments

[peradouro.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Well the poll is difficult. They're all strange enough to be true. Well no. 5 isn't strange but you write well so ... hmmm. Ok I'll guess number 1?

Genetic modifications piss me off. Just reading what they've caused whilst dicking around with corn makes me ill for days. All this research and bullshit when they could just pay some little old men to walk the fields checking the plants. Which would be more cost effective? How many billions of dollars are spent on wacko science that could go to the jobless?

[acoolsecretary.livejournal.com]

Ok, I blew that poll. *must gulp coffee*

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Wait wait I want to change my answer

I think it is 6) Once gave a bus full of senior citizens Cadbury Creme eggs where I had replaced the sugary creme in the middle with mustard and mayo.

[ilenebook.livejournal.com]

Where's Newt?
Peace!

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[(Anonymous)]

yer welcome!