Posted on 10/06/2018 2:02:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Pentagon research project called "Insect Allies." Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project involves using gene-editing techniques like CRISPR to infect insects with modified viruses that could help make America's crops more resilient. If a cornfield were hit by an unexpected drought or suddenly exposed to a pathogen, for example, Insect Allies might deploy an army of aphids carrying a genetically modified virus to slow the corn plant's growth rate.
According to the DARPA website, these "targeted therapies" could take effect in a single growing season, potentially protecting the American crop system from food security threats like disease, flooding, frost and even "threats introduced by state or non-state actors.
… Insect Allies, is less concerned. "Anytime you're developing a new and revolutionary technology, there is that potential for [both offensive and defensive] capability," Bextine told The Washington Post. "But that is not what we are doing. We are delivering positive traits to plants… We want to make sure we ensure food security, because food security is national security in our eyes."
Insect Allies is still in the early stages of development, and at least four U.S. colleges (Boyce Thompson Institute, Penn State University, The Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin)have received funding to carry out research. Bextine told The Washington Post that the project recently achieved its first milestone — testing whether an aphid could infect a stalk of corn with a designer virus that caused fluorescence. According to the Washington Post, "the corn glowed."
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G’daft ernoon, y’all. Nope, definitely not us. Been here with me all day or whatever.
I just checked Utah.gov and found that I will now have to have the same regulations applied here as I did in NV, as far as emissions. The truck will now have to pass a smog test, or...I couldn’t find the answer. It’s a confusing website.
So I guess my best bet is to just go to the DMV and find out what I have to do. The only thing that was helpful was to find that I have 60 days to register the BB SUV and also get a UT DL.
What fun!
Or, spend a month deciding if you want to stay, then start the clock ticking on your 60 days. It's not as if they check.
True, but with the amount of unpacking I've done, there is no way I want to pack it all up again! :o])
Best to put it off as long as possible; that way you’ll have the holidays behind you when it’s time for renewal.
Howya! I took the kids to the library and shopping after lunch. Even Tom came.
It always makes a difference, when taking the kids shopping, if your taking the kids to buy things they will be paying for.
True. I didn’t buy them anything at the nerdly game store, but I got them some clearance pastries at Publix, and I gave Vlad $.75 to buy geography books from the library clearance table.
It's a rescue operation.
We love the library clearance. He got Iran, Afghanistan, and U.A.E.
I have a very old set of encyclopedias. There is a map of a place called “Palestine”.
Everything old is new again.
Certain places in this world, I could probably sell that old set of books for a lot more than they’re worth.
Still, it had nice things to say about Japan, and how people made things there. But the thing I liked best about them is that Albert Einstein was still alive.
Books are rarely worth as much to someone else as they are to you.
I can only hope that it isn’t only me.
“Possum Living” by Dolly Freed reminded me of you.
“I clean deese sharp pointy fings cuz dey feels gud.”
Good morning. The hardest part about moving here has been the change in my schedule. I’m not used to waiting until 0900 to shop and run errands.
This morning, I awoke realizing that the “clink” I heard hit the side of the dumpster yesterday was probably the little Svarovian crystal frog my daughter bought for me when she was in Italy. *sigh* And my hats are missing. I hate moving. I lose so much stuff.
I’ve decided once again to donate things. I think some of those things this year will be Christmas decorations. I’m only going to keep certain Nativities, and hopefully confine them to two containers. Period. I’m going to allow me one more container and what doesn’t fit goes out the door.
The clothes will go into Space Bags for the seasonal changes and even those will be weeded out. Otherwise, I’ll never be able to live here.
And look...
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