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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If they don’t want to stay home with Frank and Kathleen (after I paid for the day care), they’ll sort it out!
I was just calculating that this will be my longest trip away from home in sixteen years. Back in April of 2003, my mother put my father on a plane to Oklahoma to help with the then-six grandchildren while she and I (and my then-sister-in-law) went to Amsterdam for a week.
I think you deserve five days away from home, if I may say so.
Teaching Envirothon may be easier than helping the offspring with it. But its not like you’ve never had any experience at being a mother of an Envirothon enthusiast. Seems I recall Elen doing something like that, a couple of years ago. Speaking of your Marine, how is her training coming along? Has she been to Vegas, yet?
Well, I found out why I can’t play movies on my laptop...MS wants me to pay $14.99 for the DVD/video player app. What a stinking rip off.
Now I’m thinking of hooking up the New Dellhi and using it for movies only, since its performance is on the wonky side anyway. Or maybe I could hook up the Win7 and use it for DVDs. Oh. Wait. I still need a password for that one. Never mind.
So I’m back to where I started. Still no way to watch movies, and in addition to the ones I want from the library, my own collection is still waiting for me to watch the ones I’ve stockpiled since my decision to move, four years ago.
To repeat a dear friend, “Why do things have to be so hard [since I moved]?”
As far as I know, Elen’s doing fine. She’s coming here on the 19th. I don’t think she’s been to Vegas.
If you have a TV, and a DVD player, and DVDs, then the only other thing you should need is electricity.
That’s why I like TVs that have lots of input connections, so they can even be used as computer monitors. And naturally, a DVD player with multiple outputs should be useful.
Then you only have to figure out cables ...
Have you tried VLC free media player? Been around for long time, well supported and stable. Google to hear why owner/developer rejected huge buyout offer to keep it free.
It is the core program for many very go android video layer apps.
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
problem solved.
should read “very good android...”
Nope. Same thing with the New Dellhi. $14.99.
I’ve never heard of that, but thank you, Sir! I will go there and see what I can do!
Stay tuned!
If you were here, I would hug you!!!
Thank you so very much!!!
I will try DuckDuckGo to find out why the owner/developer rejected huge buyouts. He could have, easily, from the looks of things. Or, if DDG can’t find him, I’ll use Goober.
Thanks again!!!
XOXO
It's free and better than WinDoze Media Player.
suffice to say that it's an open source project that has developed versions for every major platform, MS, Apple, Android, unix....more than 3 Billion downloads....and plays virtualy every type of media file.
Don't over think it.
brief 2019 review of basics.
I just did, thanks to Covenantor, who beat you to the suggestion!!
But all y’all rock, and I am more grateful every day to be a part of FR, because I can’t get the help I need anywhere else.
Thanks, both of you for your vast knowledge of the Interwebs!
ok...leopard back to napping.
This one's free. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
You beat me to it.
I use VLC player on my Macbook.
Oh that’s great! Almost as good as A Round Tuit! (One of which I had and have since passed it on to my son.)
Oh. I take it you haven’t been lurking and learning of the saga of ‘Face and her DVD player dilemma. Two DVD players bit the dust, one because it was cheap and one because for whatever reason, it just quit playing, which is why I got the cheap one. I got another, but I think I’m faced with the same problem I had in Henderson — the cable company wants me to subscribe to their movie channels.
Since I was a military wife for so many years, and have basically lived alone most of my adult life, I’ve learned how to do things most women would never think of doing. Hooking up a DVD player, whether its by HDMI or A/V cables, is simple compared to some other jobs I’ve had to do.
Cables is cables and there’s always a Gazinta and a Gazouta. I have the late Igor, the Electronics Guy, to thank for any knowledge in his area of expertise. He knew a lot.
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