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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Well, I can’t help how you all reflaprifptc. There’s absoflourtpfly nothing wrong with me.
Happy Friday!
More T-shirts will pack it well. Most laptops are almost indestructible these days. I’m sure she will be happy to get all of the stuff.
I think I’ll go get yesterday’s mail and then come back and write letters. It seems I don’t get them all done on one day any more.
Maybe they’re lying because they don’t want to be on the jury.
Box is too small. I put in the rest of the comic books, some coloring books, her box of pencils, and more t-shirts.
I don’t have any boxes the right size for the computer right now. I’ll have to measure it and see what Walmart has for sale. I’m not sure if we can send it UPS, because her mail is being delivered to an aggregator at a P.O. Box.
Apparently the base mail service is terribly slow. You mail things to the aggregator, with the Marine’s phone number in the address, and then the aggregator calls the Marine to pick up her mail. I expect it’s a military wives’ organization.
Nahhhhh, no one would ever lie to stay off a jury!
I didn’t.
Thank you, g’orning, and Frappy Hiday!
The first question asked of prospective jurors is, “Do you speak English?”
As far as I know, all of those mail box stores have UPS pick-up and delivery. It seems no matter what the business name is on it, UPS does it.
When in doubt, go online and check with UPS by putting in the ZIP code. That should tell you. If nothing else, check the FAQs.
The BB SUV title is here, and the 1099 form came with it, so now, I can get my driver’s license on payday. One more thing... Too much outgo for the income. So now, I have to make a change in the budget and add the DL as well as the Roku and the TV, but since I won’t be paying this miserable cable company, I’ll be very happy to shift the payment to somewhere else. And I’ll be a Cable Cutter!
And that’s the way it is.
What I want to know is how many non-citizens weren’t honest enough to say that, and went anyway to sit on a jury?
Liars, I mean lawyers don't want engineers, or anyone else capable of data analysis, on their juries...
Yes, the fee for Roku seems to be a wash with what you’re presently paying for cable, and it’s bound to be more satisfactory.
I’ll ask Elen to check with the addressee and find out whether they receive packages through UPS. She wants her guitar, and I’m not going to try to send it through USPS.
I was on the jury for a small-claims case: a guy hadn’t paid the rent on a copy machine. The defendant didn’t show up, and the judge ruled for the plaintiff. The jury didn’t do anything.
Nor do they want conservative gun owners. My daughter can tell you all about that!
Or you could ask the judge what the policy of the court is on the fully informed jury amendment/jury nullification...
Here in New York County I could probably just go in wearing a MAGA hat and be given my certificate and be told to go home.
Then I’d just have to worry about being pushed off a subway platform in front of an oncoming train.
Don’t they make a reversible cap? Depending on whether there red side or the black side is out it’s either a MAGA cap or an Antifa cap...
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