Toyota Develops New Flower Species To Reduce Pollution
Link to the story: http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=66761&vf=1
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- Tyrannous
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The beginning of the end?
just wait till this plant is cross pollinated with one of monstantos superweeds. -
This is goddamnn creepy, and I don't like it =\
Creating little babies to eat the factory garbage is next probably.-
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- hell0everything
- 23 days ago
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This kind of thing would typically bother me, as I am quite opposed to GM seeds/crops, cloning, etc. But it's possible that Toyota has merely run a fast-clock on evolution, as nature might have eventually adapted to polluted atmospheres and global warming with plants that do just this in order to survive. Unfortunately, nature wouldn't have done this until long after the human species disappeared. I greet this news with cautious optimism.
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- patriotaxe
- 23 days ago
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Oooh that Toyota, what will they think up next!
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Go Toyota!
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- Sam_Rodriguez
- 23 days ago
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anyone remember the scifi movie "mimic"? i'm not saying that the flowers are going to grow into little shop of horrors style plants but... maybe a little caution?
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- redvelvet1278
- 23 days ago
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and what happens when this plant proliferates soo much that there is actually too much cooling?
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i wouldve loved to be the guy to invent that flower.... I have to give credit to Toyota for taking a step in the right direction...
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This is a step in the right direction! It doesn't say anywhere in the article that the plants were GM - they may have just been bred, like plants have been bred for centuries. Even so, if we could one day fix our pollution and climate change nightmare by being intelligent with plants, I think the debate about GM seems kind of insignificant, given that we're doing a pretty good job of destroying the earth's natural resources without it.
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I hope this thing is a GMO. The world need to shake off that ignorant fear of anything new and embrace or at the very least recognize scientific progress for what it is.
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Little Shop of Horrors
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- JulianCommongold
- 22 days ago
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now i dont want to be all like "duh" and stuff but pine trees and green algae have existed for like forever dude and we have managed to ignore that it ALREADY DOES THIS. no plant will make us better. we need to change.
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- redvelvet1278
- 22 days ago
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ANOTHER reason to love my Prius!
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Reducing pollution: good. That girl's mustache: bad.
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- scoobyfanatic56
- 20 days ago
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