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Scientists create spinach that can send emails
Unexplained Myteriess ^ | 02/03/2021

Posted on 02/04/2021 7:47:40 AM PST by BenLurkin

The unorthodox experiment concerns a relatively niche area of technology research known as plant nanobionics which combines nanotechnology with plant biology to achieve new things.

The study, which was carried out by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), had initially focused on finding a way to use plants to detect explosives, but later evolved into using them to learn about the environment and to relay that information back to a mobile phone.

Obviously we're not talking about having spinach plants type out an email in the conventional sense - instead the fusion of biology and nanotechnology has enabled sensory data from the spinach to be communicated in a way that can be picked up and analyzed by human scientists

(Excerpt) Read more at unexplained-mysteries.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Food; Science
KEYWORDS: email; emails; mit; spinach
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1 posted on 02/04/2021 7:47:40 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

“STOP EATING MY FAMILY!”


2 posted on 02/04/2021 7:49:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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Quick! Get Popeye and Olive Oil an email address!


3 posted on 02/04/2021 7:50:30 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder how much these scientists get paid to come up with such earth-shaking stuff as this.


4 posted on 02/04/2021 7:50:32 AM PST by Signalman
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To: BenLurkin

And, if that doesn’t work, you can always get a treadmill shrimp to run it right over to you...


5 posted on 02/04/2021 7:50:34 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (Yeah, let's GO THERE. I'm ready...)
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To: BenLurkin

So what?

Deep State’s got a POTATUS sitting in the Oval Office.


6 posted on 02/04/2021 7:51:05 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Alas Babylon!
Quick! Get Popeye and Olive Oil an email address!

Oliveoyl@wattadish.com and iyamwhatiyam@ah-gug-gug-gug-gug.com
7 posted on 02/04/2021 7:53:48 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (Yeah, let's GO THERE. I'm ready...)
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To: BenLurkin

Finally some good news!


8 posted on 02/04/2021 7:57:45 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Alas Babylon!

I never understood that. He relied on spinach for strength but always talked about yams.


9 posted on 02/04/2021 7:57:58 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: BenLurkin

Absurdly misleading headline.

The spinach becomes a biological equivalent to a thermostat or sensor, and other technology is interpreting and relaying the data/telemetry.


10 posted on 02/04/2021 8:13:09 AM PST by z3n
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To: z3n

Yes, I was disappointed too. Thought for sure they sprouted fingers and started typing.


11 posted on 02/04/2021 8:14:07 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Let me know when they teach broccoli to text.....


12 posted on 02/04/2021 8:14:57 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: BenLurkin

I knows beans are capable of clearing out an entire room.


13 posted on 02/04/2021 8:15:17 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: bramps

“How about some more beans, Mr. Taggart?”


14 posted on 02/04/2021 8:16:37 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Soon the Democrats will register plants to vote (and they will all vote Democrats, even the ones that find themselves on the dinner menu) /h (”h” is for humor)


15 posted on 02/04/2021 8:23:04 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: BenLurkin

Unremarkable. We have a recently installed potted plant in the Oval Office doing the same thing.


16 posted on 02/04/2021 8:30:25 AM PST by Noumenon (As long as you have a rifle, you still have a vote. (KTF))
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To: BenLurkin

Spinach says, “Trust the plan.”


17 posted on 02/04/2021 8:32:23 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: BenLurkin

Ask any vegetable...and the chances are good...
that the vegetable will respond to you....


18 posted on 02/04/2021 8:33:57 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: BenLurkin

But we already have vegetables that can send emails. They’re called “tumblr feminists”.


19 posted on 02/04/2021 8:38:08 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin
Of course, the spinach is using a CELL phone...


20 posted on 02/04/2021 8:44:39 AM PST by EinNYC
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